Xbox Series X - The next Xbox that's boxy but sexy xXx

[KevinC]

The former.

[Rock8man]

The Falconeer & Dirt 5 will probably be my Day One purchases on that list. And obviously all the Game Pass titles.

Let’s see, here’s the Game Pass ones:
Dead by Daylight
Forza Horizon 4 (woohoo!)
Gears 5 (yes!)
Gears Tactics
Grounded
Ori and the Will of the Wisp (120Hz!!, or in my tv’s case, 60!!)
Sea of Thieves
Tetris Effect: Connected (yay!)
The Touryst (really? Optimized for Series X? The Touryst?)

Kind of tempted by Yakuza: Like a Dragon and Watch Dogs: Legion.
I think this will be the most games I’ve had available to me at launch what with the Game Pass ones being there.

[Woolen_Horde]

@ShakesMcQueen

The “fast” memory in the XSX/XSS is designed to be reserved for the GPU. The slow memory is designed to be used by the CPU, OS, etc. My understanding is that it’s still considered a “unified” memory system, but with some added complexities you can frankly Google if you care, lol.

How perfectly this scales down to the 1080p-1440p Series S remains to be seen, and will also depend on how game development evolves over the generation itself. I saw some early anecdotal grumbling from a few devs about whether the 10GB of memory in the XSS will be “enough”, although at least a couple of those instances ended with the person admitting they didn’t even have a dev kit yet.

Ultimately devs will adapt and overcome, as they always do. Just happy to see a (relatively) inexpensive next-gen console option out there for people, considering the world we live in right now.

I still don’t know how this is supposed to work, if the slower 2GB is meant for both the OS and the game logic. There are plenty of games already that eat up more than 2GB of RAM on their own.

I think the 2GB is for the OS, and the game code and textures all live in the faster memory.

[Desslock]

@Rock8man

Gears 5 (yes!)

Let me know if you want to do some coop. I’ve played through the game a few times at the highest difficulties, including an act or two with others, but would like to do more coop gaming with people during these isolating times.

[divedivedive]

I’d be open to some Gears co-op too. Though I’m on Pacific time, so it might be tricky.

[Rock8man]

I could potentially be up for some Gears 5 coop. Scheduling is really hard.

Back to the launch line up for a second, has anyone heard of these games:

Bright Memory 1.0
Cuisine Royale
Enlisted
Evergate
King Oddball
Maneater (is this the shark game that @divedivedive played?)
Manifold Garden
Observer: System Redux
Planet Coaster (is this the one from Elite developers, or the other one?)
War Thunder
Warhammer: Chaosbane Slayer edition

Any of those worth looking into?

[divedivedive]

@Rock8man

Maneater (is this the shark game that @divedivedive played?)

Yes, I quite liked it. Seems like an odd choice for Series X enhancement but hey, maybe I’ll give it another look.

[Gigglemoo]

@Rock8man

King Oddball

It’s like Angry Birds. I’m surprised it even made the list.
You might have it on your playstation, it was PS+.

@Rock8man

Warhammer: Chaosbane Slayer edition

I didn’t enjoy this. Action RPG like Diablo etc, but the fun was missing.
Finished campaign solo as the dwarf.

Co-op, other characters or harder difficulties might be better.

@Rock8man

Cuisine Royale

Like PUBG, but F2P.

[Brad_Grenz]

@Rock8man

The Falconeer & Dirt 5 will probably be my Day One purchases on that list.

I’m very tempted by Dirt 5. OnRush was amazing.

[TimJames]

I’m very confused about those load times. Is that startup to gameplay, or loading a save to gameplay? If it’s the latter, how on earth does a modern game take 53 seconds to load from a save? Am I not playing a bunch of games that do this?

Also, 12 seconds seems really slow. I thought it was supposed to be near instant.

So surely they mean from starting the application.

[Mellified]

Microsoft is really delivering the value. Gold is no longer required for their awesome saved game sync service - all the way back to the 360!

Xbox 360 Cloud Saves Will Soon Be Free, So You Can Transfer Them To Series X/S

[Menzo]

Not super relevant to the content, but boy are the commentors on Niche Gamer something else. Only takes a few posts to get to the straight-up Nazis. But it’s 100% alt-right from comment #1 on a post about EA wanting to fight extremism.

[RickH]

@Rock8man

Maneater

Yeah, it was fun enough AA game, but it was far from jank-free. Got all the achievements and moved on, so XBSX enhancements are kind of moot to me.

[Mellified]

@Menzo

Not super relevant to the content, but boy are the commentors on Niche Gamer something else. Only takes a few posts to get to the straight-up Nazis. But it’s 100% alt-right from comment #1 on a post about EA wanting to fight extremism.

Swapped for a GameSpot link for comfort.

[Alistair]

@TimJames

I’m very confused about those load times. Is that startup to gameplay, or loading a save to gameplay? If it’s the latter, how on earth does a modern game take 53 seconds to load from a save?

I’d guess it’s initial load to the start menu, which does take about that long on my NVME drive. Most of it’s the intro video, so assuming it’s actually loading in that time. Loading a random checkpoint took about 12 seconds.

[Timex]

@kerzain

Maybe Walmart will back Nintendo and everybody else will back Sony.

You think Sony will share their money with anyone.

[Woolen_Horde]

r/xboxone - Tested by Jeff Grubb, the Xbox Series X gives off significantly less...

[Alistair]

It’s interesting but do I get 1 cubic foot of 50 degree air every second or 20 cubic feet of 50 degree air every second?

If it’s a higher powered console lower temps mean faster exhaust of heat to the outside world… where I live :)

[Wendelius]

That’s what your PC does. With higher power. What’s your issue here? Would you rather the console doesn’t vent the hot air and overheat? Do you object to the fact that consoles and PC’s generate heat?

[Alistair]

Why are you being aggressive? Yes, the more heat things output, the more awkward it can be.