Xbox Series X | S

[Dudley]

13 hours ago, Stanley said:

Do you think it will be possible to store games on a normal hard drive and then transfer them to the SSD as and when you want to play them? 

 

You'd really hope so wouldn't you?

[HarryBizzle]

Xbros, with a full 1TB SSD (instead of 825GB):

 

[Transient Curse]

12 minutes ago, HarryBizzle said:

Xbros, with a full 1TB SSD

...after installing 6 games.  

[carlospie]

It's true, my one x was full in one day just from gamepass games, still about ten more I'd like to download but can't. 

 

I'm looking forward to seeing how fast the ssd makes things, some of the load times on one x are very excessive 

[JPL]

18 minutes ago, carlospie said:

It's true, my one x was full in one day just from gamepass games, still about ten more I'd like to download but can't. 

 

I'm looking forward to seeing how fast the ssd makes things, some of the load times on one x are very excessive 

You can delete some and install those other games you want to play, you know? 

[SeanR]

I have about 48 games installed, I have 5tb total storage, and am at 33%

[Qazimod]

On 14/07/2020 at 17:32, Moz said:

If either of the manufacturers guaranteed 60fps in all games at a minimum, even if I had to run it in 1080p, I'd buy that console in a heartbeat. 

I said something similar in the PS5 thread:

 

The thing is, I’m not sure if 60fps can really be marketed in the same way that higher resolutions can; on the other hand, as resolutions increase the differences may be less noticeable to the average consumer...

[NecroMorrius]

1 hour ago, Qazimod said:

I said something similar in the PS5 thread:

 

The thing is, I’m not sure if 60fps can really be marketed in the same way that higher resolutions can; on the other hand, as resolutions increase the differences may be less noticeable to the average consumer...

I thought 60fps coming to YouTube might make a difference, but it didn’t seem to. 

[djbhammer]

1 week!  

[TehStu]

Read on VG247 that production of One variants is wrapping up, lots of retailers mark them discontinued or out of stock. Makes sense, if the Series S is positioned where we think it will be. 

 

Hopefully we can order the damn thing after the 23rd. 

[djbhammer]

You Are the Future of Gaming

by Phil Spencer, Head of Xbox

 

Games are a source of joy, inspiration, and social connection. They have the power to bring us together, create empathy, and strengthen our social fabric. As we prepare for the next generation, our efforts to make gaming more inclusive, more immersive, more connected, and more social are as relevant and important as ever. 

 

At Xbox, we listen to what you – players, game developers, and content creators – tell us you want from the future of gaming. Based on your feedback, we’re building a future where you and your friends can play the deepest, most immersive and interactive games ever created across your Xbox console, PC, and mobile devices.

 

At the dawn of the next generation, it’s important to be clear about what you can expect from the future of Xbox.

 

Our vision has one hero at the heart of it all: You.

 

And today, I want to share our commitments to you:

 

You will always be welcome. We are building Xbox for you—players from all walks of life, everywhere in the world. We want to make your Xbox community safe, accessible, and welcoming – a place where you can have fun. As we say in our community standards, harassment and hate take many forms, but none have a home on Xbox. Should you feel others are behaving in ways that violate the standards, our safety team will investigate your report and support you 24/7/365 around the globe. And we continue to accelerate new technology to reduce hate speech and toxicity, giving you the tools to create the safe gaming community you want to play in.

In addition to tools, we commit to bringing more diverse stories to Xbox for you to enjoy. We are empowering creators of diverse backgrounds to develop new stories, advocating for an authentic and respectful representation in games, and championing accessibility so that all can play. Additionally, more than 300,000 Xbox Ambassadors give their time and passion to making Xbox the best place to play and we invite all players to join us on that mission. We still have so much more work to do and will not stop until everyone who plays feels welcome, heard, and valued.

 

Your games will look and play best on Xbox Series X. Xbox Series X is designed to deliver a new level of fidelity, feel, performance and precision never seen before in console gaming. All games will look and play best on Xbox Series X – whether they come from our 15 Xbox Game Studios, like Halo Infinite, or from our world-class publisher and developer partners. Packing over 12 teraflops of GPU power including new technologies like hardware-accelerated Direct X raytracing and variable rate shading, and with four times the processing power of an Xbox One X, Xbox Series X enables developers to provide you with transformative gaming experiences through richer, more dynamic living worlds, more realistic AI and animations, and support for higher frame rates including support for up to 120 FPS.

Xbox Series X also enables you to spend less time waiting and more time playing, as it virtually eliminates load times with the 40x boost in I/O throughput from last generation. With our custom next-generation SSD and Xbox Velocity Architecture, nearly every aspect of playing games is improved. Game worlds are larger, more dynamic and load in a flash, and fast travel is just that – fast. The Xbox Velocity Architecture also powers new platform capabilities like Quick Resume, which enables you to seamlessly switch between multiple titles and resume instantly from where you last left off without waiting through long loading screens. Right now, Xbox Series X is in the hands of our 15 Xbox Game Studios teams and thousands of third-party developers, empowering them to create a new generation of blockbuster games for you to enjoy.

 

You play new games day one with Xbox Game Pass. All Xbox Game Studios titles launch into Xbox Game Pass the same day as their global release, so you decide whether to purchase each game separately or play them all with your Xbox Game Pass membership. Xbox Game Studios franchises that will launch into Game Pass day one of release include Halo, Forza, Age of Empires, Gears of War, Minecraft, Hellblade, The Outer Worlds, Psychonauts, Microsoft Flight Simulator, State of Decay, Wasteland, Minecraft Dungeons andSea of Thieves—and more new franchises in early development. So, when Halo Infinite launches, you and your friends can decide whether to purchase the game or play it with Xbox Game Pass.

 

You won’t be forced into the next generation. We want every Xbox player to play all the new games from Xbox Game Studios. That’s why Xbox Game Studios titles we release in the next couple of years—like Halo Infinite—will be available and play great on Xbox Series X and Xbox One. We won’t force you to upgrade to Xbox Series X at launch to play Xbox exclusives.

 

Your games will not be left behind, thanks to backward compatibility. You will be able to play four generations of games on Xbox Series X on day one. That makes it the largest launch lineup for any new console ever, with thousands of games to play. Our backward compatibility engineers have spent years devising innovative ways for modern, next-gen technology to make the games library you’re building today even better, at no additional cost and with no work from developers. It’s our intent for all Xbox One games that do not require Kinect to play on Xbox Series X at the launch of the console. And because of the unprecedented power of Xbox Series X, most of your favorite games will load faster and look and perform many times better on the new console.

 

Your Xbox One gaming accessories come into the future with you, too. The Xbox Elite Controller and Xbox Adaptive Controller all work on Xbox Series X, so you don’t have to purchase new controllers. We believe that your investments in gaming should move with you into the next generation.

 

You can buy games once at no added cost. With our new Smart Delivery technology, you don’t need to buy the same game twice – once for the current console generation and once for the next generation. You always have the best available version of supported games on whatever Xbox console you are playing on, at no additional cost. If you own a title that supports Smart Delivery like Destiny 2, Gears 5 and Halo Infinite, you automatically have access to the version that plays best on your Xbox console. Highly anticipated games from the world’s biggest developers, like Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Cyberpunk 2077, Marvel’s Avengers and more have already committed to supporting Smart Delivery and more will be announced soon.

Xbox Play Anywhere digital titles also enable you to buy once and play on both Xbox consoles and Windows 10 PCs.

 

You choose how to jump into the next generation of gaming. We hear from you that you prefer choice and value. With Xbox All Access, you can get Xbox Series X, and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for a low monthly price with no up-front costs, no finance charges and no hidden fees. You get to enjoy an instant library of over 100 high-quality games, join friends with online multiplayer, and experience new Xbox Game Studios titles the day they release, including Halo Infinite, on the fastest, most powerful Xbox ever.

 

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You will get more from your Xbox Game Pass Ultimate membership. Finally, today we’re announcing that this September, in supported countries, we’re bringing Xbox Game Pass and Project xCloud together at no additional cost for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members. With cloud gaming in Game Pass Ultimate, you will be able to play over 100 Xbox Game Pass titles on your phone or tablet. And because Xbox Live connects across devices, you can play along with the nearly 100 million Xbox Live players around the world. So when Halo Infinite launches, you and your friends can play together and immerse yourselves in the Halo universe as Master Chief—anywhere you go and across devices.

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It’s a future where you and your friends play the most immersive, responsive, and vivid games together on every screen in your life, and where games reach across the world and bring you stories you’ve never experienced before. It’s a future in which you get more value from your games. And where everyone is welcome.

 

We hope you’ll join us next Thursday, July 23rd for the Xbox Games Showcase for the first look at the Halo Infinite Campaign and more.

 

Thanks so much for shaping the future of gaming.

-Phil

 

 

[Pob]

10 minutes ago, TehStu said:

Read on VG247 that production of One variants is wrapping up, lots of retailers mark them discontinued or out of stock. Makes sense, if the Series S is positioned where we think it will be. 

 

Hopefully we can order the damn thing after the 23rd. 

 

That would surely mean that the Series S is pretty reasonably priced - like, £300-£350?

[Vemsie]

I'm ready for that Halo Infinite campaign footage. Hope it has that magic that Halo kinda lost over the years.

[spanx]

That is a very compelling vision to be sure. Microsoft are really doing everything right this time.

[TehStu]

3 minutes ago, spanx said:

That is a very compelling vision to be sure. Microsoft are really doing everything right this time.

Yeah, hard to complain about any of that. It's not the stealth means of putting a media box under the TV of last gen, for sure. 

[marc2j]

Big Phil smashing it out the park again. The value of Game Pass Ultimate really is just a game changer now. Online gaming, a catalogue of first party games on day one, third party games cycling through the catalogue and now the ability to play those first party games anywhere you want to on your mobile device. Take my money Phil, please and thank you.

[Girth Certificate]

11 minutes ago, Vemsie said:

I'm ready for that Halo Infinite campaign footage. Hope it has that magic that Halo kinda lost over the years.

 

Those years being 2002 onwards

 

Gamepass is ridiculous value.

[bear]

3 minutes ago, marc2j said:

Big Phil smashing it out the park again. The value of Game Pass Ultimate really is just a game changer now. Online gaming, a catalogue of first party games on day one, third party games cycling through the catalogue and now the ability to play those first party games anywhere you want to on your mobile device. Take my money Phil, please and thank you.

I'm increasingly convinced that they are going to make this free when the Series X/S launch. It's the biggest remaining move they can make to get people to choose Xbox over PlayStation and Live is free on other platforms already. 

[Gigawatt]

Does this mean that XGP Ultimate is now effectively a Stadia killer? You don’t even need a console now?

[Clipper]

30 minutes ago, djbhammer said:

 It’s our intent for all Xbox One games that do not require Kinect to play on Xbox Series X at the launch of the console. And because of the unprecedented power of Xbox Series X, most of your favorite games will load faster and look and perform many times better on the new console.

That is an upgrade on the previous assertion that thousands would be playable at launch - now he is saying that they intend to get them all working (well unless you like waving to a camera )

 

[Transient Curse]

They must have a lot to say next week  if they're putting that out as just a letter from Phil. 

[moosegrinder]

At any other point something like that would sound like ridiculous hyperbole but if Microsoft have shown anything in recent years it's that they're willing to alter course, and probably at great cost. I don't see how Ultimate can make them money with Live, Game Pass AND X Cloud. It's ridonkulous. I'm probably not in day one still but it's going to be very interesting to watch how the launches play out.

[djbhammer]

I'll put the on-demand video into the first post of this thread as soon as it is available next Thursday so rllmukers who are unable to watch live can easily access and enjoy the show. 

 

by Aaron Greenberg, General Manager, Xbox Games Marketing

 

The day you’ve been waiting for is nearly here: On Thursday, July 23 at 5pm BST, we’ll be giving you a closer look at the future of gaming with the Xbox Games Showcase, including world premieres and updated looks at some of the games we’ve already revealed. And yes, that includes your first-ever look at campaign gameplay from Halo Infinite.

 

Xbox Game Studios is pushing the industry forward with a huge variety of games, all of which support services and features that put the player first, including Xbox Game Pass and Smart Delivery.

 

What’s more, our celebration of all things Xbox games will start with a Summer Game Fest pre-show beginning at 4pm BST. Tune in for reveals, predictions, insights from YouTube creators, and more on some already-announced titles coming to Xbox. Hosted by Geoff Keighley, the Xbox Games Showcase pre-show will air on YouTube Gaming.

 

You’ll be able to watch the Xbox Games Showcase in a variety of ways. You can tune-in on:

 

YouTube.com/Xbox for a 1080p/60fps livestream and 4K/60fps VoD immediately after

Twitch.tv/Xbox

Facebook.com/Xbox

Twitter.com/Xbox

 

If you can’t make it, don’t worry: you can check out highlights immediately following the show or view the whole Xbox Game Showcase on-demand soon after it airs.

 

We’ll see you next week!

[Vemsie]

 

[rafaqat]

33 minutes ago, Wahwah* said:

They must have a lot to say next week  if they're putting that out as just a letter from Phil. 

 

That's the sort of announcement I would expect at the end of an E3 kind of thing.  That for me is mic drop type stuff.   Surprised they've announced it this early.

I'm a bit of a risk averse wuss.  I'd have put it on the end of the games showcase just in case the rest of it didn't land with people.

[Hitcher]

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Finally, today we’re announcing that this September, in supported countries, we’re bringing Xbox Game Pass and Project xCloud together at no additional cost for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members.

Even more value for that £1 upgrade!

[FiveFootNinja]

That's a really solid announcement in fairness, and a great counter for the "this is for the players" messaging from Sony over the years. It feels like they have nailed their vision (and more importantly the right vision compared to last time round) and are bringing it to life. I just hope we see some absolutely top notch titles in a week to strength the comparatively weak exclusives list.

 

Ironically though it probably makes it even less likely I'll buy a new console from them in the short term as I know can play everything on my Xbox One, xCloud devices and £1 Game Pass (including all the new first party titles) for a while I play PS5 exclusives on the new hardware despite being bought into the whole idea. It's a bizarre world we live in.

[Quest]

5 minutes ago, FiveFootNinja said:

Ironically though it probably makes it even less likely I'll buy a new console from them in the short term as I know can play everything on my Xbox One, xCloud devices and £1 Game Pass (including all the new first party titles) for a while I play PS5 exclusives on the new hardware despite being bought into the whole idea. It's a bizarre world we live in.

 

Same for me. I suppose MS don't really care about which machine I use my Game Pass sub on, only that I eventually re-subscribe (in 2023 lol), but it does mean I'm a bit more likely to go with the PS5 in the first year.

[spanx]

Have to say, over the last month I’ve gone from not interested in a million years to I need a good reason not to buy a Series S as a top notch companion to my PS5.

 

Really impressive

[teddymeow]

2 hours ago, Vemsie said:

 

 

At least he didn't say "gameplay" so he can't get roasted when the show is full of trailers and cut-scenes.

 

I'm intrigued what the studios they've acquired have been working on that I'll be able to enjoy on my One X.