most companies have slews of failed products - MS is no different in this regard, in fact, their graveyard is quite vast.
Yeah. I have 0 interest in the XBox eco system, but i really liked Spencer, he is down to earch, honest, straight forward and you really know that he is not just a suit that tries to seem like he games, but is fully imersed in the field.
Curious about this. Has any developer come out and said similar about the Switch, since you basically need to support two profiles/configs there too?
On that note the new OS doesn't have a baked in streaming option. Share, yes. Stream no. You'd think they could bake in support for Twitch, Youtube and others
This really doesn't indicate anything. At launch, Battlefield 4 was 900p on PS4 and 720p on Xbox One. That didn't mean the average resolution for these consoles was lower than that (quite the contrary, in fact).
Why wouldn't it have those bells and whistles like raytracing?
Because it has a much weaker GPU and Raytracing is expensive as far as resource consumption is concerned.
How much weaker? Two times? Three times? Four times?
I guess we shall see what happens once full on next gen games hit.
We shall see I guess. Even with lower res I have doubts that S has enough horsepower for proper RTX effects, but I would be happy to be proven wrong.
An RTX 2060 is only 6.4 tflops and gets >60fps in Control with raytracing on with dlss 2.0 reconstruction (native target is 1080p here): https://youtu.be/jSvsqQftPWw
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I didn't realize that for case 1 there are enhanced resolution modes. Thats actually not too bad. Its going to be interesting to see variety of tests by various tech channels and publications once the hardware releases.Most BC games will actually run in One S mode on every Xbox, unless they've been enhanced.
Examples:
-Xbox Original games are all enhanced, so titles that were 480p on the original Xbox will be 1440p on Series S (basically a 3x boost on both axes). This is an improvement on One S.
-Xbox 360 enhanced titles run with their normal resolution on One S, but get a 2x boost on both axes on Series S, so a 720p title becomes 1440p. Again an improvement on One S.
-Fallout 4 will be one of the first titles to be enhanced on the new Xbox platforms and on Series S it will run at 60fps, in comparison to the 30fps on One S/X. Another improvement.
This is how Xbox Series S backwards compatibility really works
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Basically think of BC titles belonging to three categories:
1) Enhanced BC titles (original Xbox games, 360 enhanced titles and the upcoming "enhanced" games like Fallout 4): These are also improved on Series S. They might not hit the high resolution of Series X and One X, but they're still improved over the regular One S and in some cases might do some things better than One X (framerate in Fallout 4) and other things worse (typically resolution).
2) Normal BC titles: These run in what you call "One S" mode on every Xbox platform, but they might still exhibit improvements due to running on more powerful hardware (more stable framerate/better loading times etc.).
3) Xbox One games improved for One X. Titles released in the latter years to take advantage of One X. Unless changed like with Fallout 4, they will default to the regular One S mode on Series S, though the games being newer will likely also give them a higher chance of being patched/updated to avoid this. We'll see how that ends up.
By the time GTA 6 comes out we may have the next gen SS out.
