I'm assuming Quick Resume's functionality requires a lot of SSD space to be locked away. That's the only way I can see that much space being dedicated to the OS.
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Xbox Series X hands-on previews coming soon. Update: First Series X game impressions / footage live
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Perhaps functioning as a cache reserve for game switching?
Seems logical. It will vary a little bit game to game but Microsoft has built an absolute beast of a system with backwards compat in mind. Series is very much bringing the performance gains pc people are used to seeing when playing old titles to the console space.
That was for 360 games on xb1.
I don't expect that to be the case for xbox one games on series x. I think the finished retail release will be able to play them without a connection.
it sucks that you had to explain this lol.. this should be known by now by almost everyone that uses phones, pcs, etc..
I hope someone tests Just Cause 3 on the Series X because that game had major slowdown even on the One X.
I think the loss In space is worth it for the instant resume, amazing feature.
At one point they patched Just Cause 3 and made it run worse.
I'd definitely be interested in seeing it on a next gen device.
Maybe they are still on embargo about that feature.
Tbh I don't think any of these outlets that are posting previews (except maybe df) have any expertise in that. I think EvilBoris commented awhile back it was good though?
External to Internal should be much faster but probably limited by the external drive read speed.
All Games with unlocked frame-rates, if there is a list for such thing(I bet there is), then you have your answer.
Probably. We're testing "non-final" hardware so I can't 100% say yes.
It's in mine: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/09/xbox-series-x-hands-on-the-big-back-compat-dive-begins/
I'm hopeful that Xbox Series consoles eventually offer a per-game toggle option, instead of making it a universal one, because when it works in older software, it's a fun surprise—especially the explosion-filled, bike-balancing madness of the original Trials HD.
Everytime I hear that price for SSD storage expansion card I cringe. That is the main mistake I can see from MS right now. 1TB damn son
I mean, Gears 5 is on that list because it's being optimized for Series X|S so there will most likely be no "BC" version. It's just not ready to show yet.
It will run at a locked 30fps since that games was CPU bound and the CPU in the Series X just dumps on the CPU in the One X.
While this true, 200 GB is way more than I have ever seen. Like way, way more. I've never used a SSD, though, so I have no idea if that factors into it, but only having 800 GB out of 1 TB is legit shocking. As others have said, maybe there's more for these specific units, though, and actual retail units won't have as much space. That's the hope, at least.
Only if it is actually bw limited. Many games also need to decompress the data which might be another bottleneck.
Exactly. In fact I don't think advertise harddrive space has every meant total usable space on any console
Waits for Prey test.
I'm never turning it off. 800GB is plenty of space for me. :P
You mean, these aren't going to be the same as the retail units sent to customers? Or was there some sort of fine print in the review embargo documents?
Most likely it has reserved space for quick resume, essentially ram dumps of multiple games.
Because of the way that it works, it will work great on most content.
I have no doubt that there will be outliers which look plain weird.
I imagine some of the bloom heavy games of the 360 era might be tricky ones, but for games with a degree of control over brightness, even that will be solvable.
Nah I don't think that's happening. I expect similar results and even then barebones bc. I want to see how new games run on these things, that's the real test
It's not really 200 GB less space though. The disk itself has 930 GB of space, even though it is advertised as 1 TB. You can actually verify this if you buy any random 1 TB drive from any manufacturer and connect it to your PC. You get930 GB of space with nothing on it. :)
I hope that SE unlocks the framerate in High quality mode because I think they game would also be able to reach 60fps there.
Man this makes me want to do external ssd's for cold storage and older games - but if you look at external ssd prices you almost might as well buy the xbox nvme cards they are so expensive
Project Cars 2 locked at 4k60 in that vid caught my eye. Very nice.
Maybe not. There are comparison videos on youtube between different SSD's loading old games (designed without SSD in mind) and the fastest SSD'S have the same load time as the slowest. Means even the slowest SSD was already too fast for old games to load.
Yep same bullshit from them. This will be an issue going forwards. Who wants to keep games on cold storage and then copy across when you want to play. I never did this once on current gen.