Xbox Series X|S Thread - Power Your Dreams.

Robbo-92 wrote:https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/p/xbox-series-x/8wj714n3rbtl?cid=msft_web_collection

Obviously still waiting on a release date or a price but the pre order page seems to have gone live for the Xbox Series X over the last few hours, maybe we'll get a date/price at their June event?

Imagine asking people for their money before actually showing any games.

Nah.

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Xbox Series X: The Most Powerful and Compatible Next-Gen Console with Thousands of Games at Launch

With more than 100,000 hours of play testing already completed, thousands of games are already playable on Xbox Series X today, from the biggest blockbusters to cult classics and fan favorites. Many of us in Team Xbox play on the Xbox Series X daily as our primary console and switching between generations is seamless. By the time we launch this holiday, the team will have spent well over 200,000 hours ensuring your game library is ready for you to jump in immediately.

All Games Play Better on Xbox Series X

Not only should gamers be able to play all of these games from the past, but they should play better than ever before. Backwards compatible games run natively on the Xbox Series X hardware, running with the full power of the CPU, GPU and the SSD. No boost mode, no downclocking, the full power of the Xbox Series X for each and every backward compatible game. This means that all titles run at the peak performance that they were originally designed for, many times even higher performance than the games saw on their original launch platform, resulting in higher and more steady framerates and rendering at their maximum resolution and visual quality. Backwards compatible titles also see significant reductions in in-game load times from the massive leap in performance from our custom NVME SSD which powers the Xbox Velocity Architecture. As I play through my personal backlog as part of our internal testing, all of the incredible games from Xbox One and earlier play best on Xbox Series X.

The team was not content to just rely on the increased hardware performance to improve your playing experience. The team developed new platform level capabilities to ensure all of your games continue to get even better. In partnership with the Xbox Advanced Technology Group, Xbox Series X delivers a new, innovative HDR reconstruction technique which enables the platform to automatically add HDR support to games. As this technique is handled by the platform itself, it allows us to enable HDR with zero impact to the game’s performance and we can also apply it to Xbox 360 and original Xbox titles developed almost 20 years ago, well before the existence of HDR.

All of these advances happen at the platform level and require no additional work from title developers.

The compatibility team has invented brand new techniques that enable even more titles to run at higher resolutions and image quality while still respecting the artistic intent and vision of the original creators. We are also creating whole new classes of innovations including the ability to double the frame rate of a select set of titles from 30 fps to 60 fps or 60 fps to 120 fps.

The team also continues to listen to feedback from the community on additional titles you would like to see added to the compatibility program.

Monkey Man wrote:

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Monkey Man wrote:

The compatibility team has invented brand new techniques that enable even more titles to run at higher resolutions and image quality while still respecting the artistic intent and vision of the original creators. We are also creating whole new classes of innovations including the ability to double the frame rate of a select set of titles from 30 fps to 60 fps or 60 fps to 120 fps.

The team also continues to listen to feedback from the community on additional titles you would like to see added to the compatibility program.

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/05/28/ ... atibility/

KK wrote:I don't understand why Sony appears to be struggling with BC in a way that MS clearly aren't.

KK wrote:I don't understand why Sony appears to be struggling with BC in a way that MS clearly aren't.

Robbo-92 wrote:That is a hell of a commitment to backwards compatibility, even for relatively new players you can buy some games from the original Xbox on their store can't you??

Robbo-92 wrote:What is Sony's stance so far? Just PS4 games?

Photek wrote:

Robbo-92 wrote:That is a hell of a commitment to backwards compatibility, even for relatively new players you can buy some games from the original Xbox on their store can't you??

Yep and all Original Xbox games run at 1080 on base Xbox and 4K on X.

Robbo-92 wrote:

Photek wrote:

Robbo-92 wrote:That is a hell of a commitment to backwards compatibility, even for relatively new players you can buy some games from the original Xbox on their store can't you??

Yep and all Original Xbox games run at 1080 on base Xbox and 4K on X.

Decent! Now I'm wondering how good KOTOR looks on a One X

Photek wrote:

Robbo-92 wrote:

Photek wrote:

Robbo-92 wrote:That is a hell of a commitment to backwards compatibility, even for relatively new players you can buy some games from the original Xbox on their store can't you??

Yep and all Original Xbox games run at 1080 on base Xbox and 4K on X.

Decent! Now I'm wondering how good KOTOR looks on a One X

Like arse, 4K almost makes the less poly’s more obvious! (Got Kotor 1&2 for €6) in a sale.

KK wrote:

Robbo-92 wrote:What is Sony's stance so far? Just PS4 games?

Unfortunately. PS1 and PS2 would be a piece of piss. And with some effort, we've already seen over the years what can be achieved when PS1 games are cleaned up even slightly (Gran Turismo 2 or Ridge Racer 4 on Dreamcast for example) and how PS2/Xbox games can look on modern hardware (Splinter Cell Chaos Theory on Xbox One X).