Well guys, I'm already one week days with the "technical miracle", here are my impressions:
- The console does not heat up and makes no noise, but like, nothing at all. It's impressive.
- Microsoft's proposal with the XSX is not to start a new generation, something new and unusual like the Nintendo Switch for example. The proposal is what I call "cell phone exchange": you don't buy a new cell phone to have new experiences, you buy it to do everything you already do, apps, photos, games, only better. And that is what the XSX is: everything you already know and played from the last three generations better;
- And, like every new cell phone, this new Xbox will run everything, but some games will be much better, others not so much and some will be the same. For example, two games that I play for 5 years, every year, since they left:
Batman Arkham Knight: runs at 30 fps with 900p res, nor is 1080p HD standard. In Series X it continues to run in these settings but runs without braking due to the VRR (Variable refresh rate) and HDR, because the Xbox puts HDR in games that it doesn't have (beautiful thing). The game got better, yes. Not as fuck. Similar to the PC version, nowhere near.
The Witcher 3: the game on Xbox One X (fucking names ...) it had two modes: 4k at 30 fps and between 1080p and 2k at almost 60 fps. In this second mode the resolution is dynamic, the game changes resolution to keep the framerate high, close to 60 fps. Only he has some sharp drops, to 40 fps, then back to 60 fps, the fluidity goes down the drain. On Series X, this mode runs at 4k and 60 fps. The game just got fucking better! Similar to a PC experience, a lot!
- This console finally (and the PS5 most likely too) solved the three biggest problems of the last two generations: loading time, downloading speed and framerate. I remember that in 2013 when they launched the Xbox One and PS4, I thought to myself "we will finally play full HD (1080p) at 60 fps". Hahahaha, sorry mistake. Neither in 90% of the games of this generation.
The previous generation, the PS360, was the one that introduced the digital store, digital games and with it endless downloads, starting to download the night, go to sleep and wake up the next day at the very end of the download. Not to mention that the store itself, most of the time, is locked, slow, the experience is not cool. It was also in this generation that the loading time got worse. Of course, there has always been this since the media left the cartridge for the CD, but they were much more acceptable on the PS2, GameCube and Xbox. Who remembers 10 minutes to load a chapter on PS3 Metal Gear Solid?
Everything from the past!
- Loading time: average of 30 seconds to load a game, loading of 10 within the game at most. That when there is ...
- Downloading speed: my connection is 400Mps. On PS4 low to a maximum of 90 Mps, on Switch it is no more than 40 Mps. In XSX? It has already reached a speed of 460 Mps, don't ask me how…
- Framerate: 60 fps smooth 'made a baby's bootie' at 4k resolution. And there are some games with the option of 120 fps if the 4k are dynamic. Stupid. And there's VRR to guarantee extra fluidity, absurd.
- Okay, but is it worth selling a kidney to buy this shit? It depends. If you have a top-of-the-line 4K HDR 55 "TV or higher and you want to play your games on it, yes, absolutely. Now if you play anywhere, on the screen on your phone, on the kitchen tube television, you don't care about 4k and that HDR shit, so the answer is no, because you're going to play the same games on your PS4 / XONE and not you will notice most of the aforementioned differences;
- What about the PS5? The Xbox hasn't had exclusives in a decade… Yes, it's true. But there is GamePass and that alone is worth buying the black box. It is not by chance that 70% of buyers of XSX and XSS have subscribed to GamePass. And there is no reason not to do it: it is extremely cheap in relation to the more than 100 games, mostly trilpe A, that it offers. Ball inside Microsoft;
- The only negative aspect of the device is the control. Not that it is bad, quite the contrary, but it is the same shit from the previous control that was already the same as the X360… Microsoft is looking like Sony that made the PS1, PS2 and PS3 with the same control! There was a microphone, a pad, a flasher missing, I don't know!
In short, a long time ago I was not satisfied with a console as I was with this Xbox Series X. I think the last time was with the X360, that I bought a better TV just because of it. The rest with the other consoles was exciting and then hey, it could be better, but that's okay.
