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

[Jarrodhk]

The xbox live services are having issues. I had to log out and back in on mine for it to remember that, yes I do in fact have a game pass membership.

[TimJames]

Does anyone own Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge? I’d like to know if it has some sort of Series X enhancement option.

[Enidigm]

Installing Ori, Stellaris, Planetfall and AC Odyssey (one of the only Xbox games I actually own). I’ll be curious how the S handles Odyssey when forced to 1080p/120hz. I don’t expect 120 of course but maybe it can hit 60.

I guess I ought to try some FPS game for the 120 FPS thing…

Also Bad Company 2 is on game pass. I wonder how it holds up?

[Dejin]

@Enidigm

Installing Ori, Stellaris, Planetfall and AC Odyssey (one of the only Xbox games I actually own).

I’m definitely feeling the hurt on switching from PS4 to Xbox. I’m particularly regretting buying a whole bunch of AAA PS4 games at the start of the Summer that I still mostly haven’t gotten to.

But Game Pass is such a big win, my gaming crew just felt like we had to switch over.

[Timex]

Gamepass for $5 a month is an insane deal

[Enidigm]

I mean… I still have my PS5 preorder ^^. Xbox for me is basically my way of playing strategy games through Gamepass. Though I’ll miss full fat Flight Sim if it ever comes to console. Man, Age of Empires would be fun on console as well, even just a single player version.

Although tbh I might be satisfied with just this Series S… other than Valhalla there really isn’t anything I’m dying to play…

[Enidigm]

How do you get it for $5? I never pay attention to those threads.

[Woolen_Horde]

I want MS to make a Windows PC like this. It’s powerful, compact, ultra quiet.

[Timex]

@Enidigm

How do you get it for $5? I never pay attention to those threads.

If you don’t have gamepass already, then when you join, any XBL Gold time you have converts over at a 1 to 1 ratio (up to a max of 3 years).

You can buy XBL Gold for $5 a month (or less when there are sales).

So what I did was buy 3 years of XBL on Amazon, entered the codes, then activated gamepass ultimate… And i got 3 years for $5 a month.

You can still do this if you already have gamepass, but you need to let it run out completely first… And at some point, Microsoft is going to stop offering conversion at this rate.

[Enidigm]

I see, getting the 1 year XBL Gold. Thanks!

Yea, it’ll probably be tomorrow before I can try some Visually Stunning games, but the S really interests me how it handles CPU intense games like Stellaris and how it managed to effect good frame rates in games with modest hardware.

[divedivedive]

@Enidigm

Installing Ori, Stellaris, Planetfall and AC Odyssey

Downloading a ton of stuff myself, with Ori and Odyssey among them. Been putting those two off long enough. Oh and Fallout 4, time to get lost in another Bethesda world I’m thinking.

[KevinC]

The new AC game runs great so far, 4K @ 60FPS. Feels like 4K gaming has finally arrived.

Wish my TV supported 4K @ 120hz but eh, I’m guessing not a lot of games are going to be running at that. Not planning on replacing the TV anytime soon, it’s only a couple years old or so and I’m pretty happy with it otherwise.

[Woolen_Horde]

Quick Resume is awesome. Really awesome. Can we get something like this for PC???

Although I did notice one oddity. You have two controllers. It appears if you start a game on one, then leave that game in Quick Resume State. But you later pick up your other controller, and try to resume that game. It wants you to use the controller you were using earlier.

[Mellified]

@Woolen_Horde

It wants you to use the controller you were using earlier.

Quick and dirty solution to this is to hold the Xbox gem on the controller you don’t want to use anymore. A menu will pop up with the option to turn off the controller. Then when you use the still active controller you select your Gamertag and go.

Probably took longer to read that than it does to do it!

[Don_Quixote]

@Rock8man

The Falconeer is a bit perplexing so far. I think it’s an open world game, but with missions, but that’s not immediately clear.

It is a little obtuse. I’ll write more over in the Falconeer thread.

[ioticus]

Stellaris takes over a minute to load on my external mechanical drive but only takes a second on the internal SSD. Pretty amazing.

[Editer]

I’d pulled a couple of smaller (256GB, 500GB) SSDs from my PCs when doing recent updates. Bought cheap USB 3 adapters off Amazon and now I’m using them for storing Xbox One and 360 games on the Series X. They’re not as fast as the internal, but they’re way faster than they were plugged into my Xbox One X.

[Alistair]

IT’S THE LOOKS ON THEIR LITTLE FACES :)

[Thraeg]

@ioticus

Stellaris takes over a minute to load on my external mechanical drive but only takes a second on the internal SSD. Pretty amazing

Same with Ninja Gaiden Black, which is going to be a godsend what with how often I’ve been dying in that game.

[Jason_Becker]

@Rock8man

I did try to experience 3D audio using a headphone, but the only place I can find to plug in a headphone is the controller. And when I do that, and switch off my receiver, the audio that came through the headphones during Tetris Effect was really low volume, and it was missing most of the sounds from the game. Only the high pitched notes were coming through, and at a fairly low volume. So 3D sound is a bust for me I guess. Still, the sound is pretty awesome in Tetris Effect when fed through the HDMI converter thingie.

Did you check system volume level output to headphones and raise it?

Strange aside. Noticed the Series X shows up as a plain black Xbox One under devices on my Microsoft account page.