Check out the digital foundry video on the load times. Xbox One games are best placed on an external ssd.
Poll: *** Xbox Series X|S - General Discussion Thread ***
Check out the digital foundry video on the load times. Xbox One games are best placed on an external ssd.
What that picture doesn't show is that the PS5 is also twice as deep as the XsX......it reminds me of a teenagers tricked out 1st car (you know the sort, a mk3 Corsa with fins stuck on all over the place, speed stripes painted up the sides, a coldcathode light underneatha, and a catering size baked bean tin on the exhaust).
Soldato
Yeah i've seen it, better no, best for practical space usage, most likely.
Until I have games that use Velocity architecture (that is a stupid name BTW) then I'm going to use the internal space for games I play the most, excluding games where I'm going to be just stuck in a lobby waiting for everyone else.
Till then I have a 7200rpm 2tb SSHD drive i currently use for my One X, and a 2tb 5400rpm portable that i use to keep games im not playing.
I'm not going to drop £220 on 1 TB of extra drive space just yet, so my plan is to shuffle what I'm playing till a 2tb expansion is available at a not too shocking price,
If it becomes too much of an issue then maybe my work 2TB Samsung T5 drive may get switched in.
While going though my 2 tb of games installed on my one X right now I realised that barring 5-6 of them most hadn't been played in months, sometimes years, so spending even 30mins to copy one of those onto the console isnt really much of a deal compared to waiting for a download.
Soldato
I agree its not a looker, and its has that Nova crashed into Halfords look.
I will probably pick one up at some point but I'm in no rush, how I hide it is another matter.
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Just about to ditch the PS4 Pro at CEX and now ready for the XSX. Games I think I'll be playing are:
Battlefield 5 as I never played it.
Destiny 2 for 60fps goodness.
Gears 5 as my PC ran it pretty badly due to low spec.
Lots of indie games like Dead Cells etc.
I quite fancy an Action RPG like Torchlight but there don't seem to be too many decent offerings.
Battlefield 5 as I never played it.
Destiny 2 for 60fps goodness.
Gears 5 as my PC ran it pretty badly due to low spec.
Lots of indie games like Dead Cells etc.
I quite fancy an Action RPG like Torchlight but there don't seem to be too many decent offerings.
Soldato
BF5 isnt half as bad as i gets painted, I actually enjoyed it a lot more then BF1 and as its will be on gamepass on the 10th hopefully there will be a good uptick in players.
Void ********, the gem of gamepass that I would never have played and i really enjoyed.
As for action RPGs, Path of exile I guess but if you have a PC and play that sort of game then i guess you've already played it, same goes for Diablo 3. I like Warhammer 40k: Inquisitor and would recommend it if its on sale, it was a games with gold game a while back.
That's one thing I hadn't considered about GamePass - a lot of good multiplayer games that struggled to find other players (either because they're older or less popular) will all of a sudden have a deluge of fresh blood.
I'd love to play some Team Fortress on the sofa with packed servers!
I'd love to play some Team Fortress on the sofa with packed servers!
Soldato
Its true every game that hits gamepass gets a jump in players, for the good and the bad, Forza 7 is a nightmare in online races right now for getting launched by some low level noob, and the Destiny expansions coming to GamePass got me playing again for a month or so.
Caporegime
How confident are people their MS preorder will be with them on release day?
Soldato
Barring COVID issues fairly confident.
Im thinking same but with Smyths
Never used them for pre orders before, or mail order in general no idea who they use for shipping
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Can’t imagine amazon not delivering.
Soldato
They borked the One X launch for quite a few people, though i seem to remember it was a fire at one of their centres.
Stuff happens while i would be annoyed if mine was delayed its not like its a kidney or something.
Soldato
Don't know, I can't see it being here on release day. I guess they'll take payment once it ships right?
Caporegime
Yes I believe so.
I am very much looking forward to Series X and going back through some of back catalogue
Haven't seen so much about S interested in digital foundry results
Hope the Series X as quiet as my One X not sure I've heard the fan on it yet - been playing Minecraft dungeons last few days with my daughter surprised how fun it is (used to play loads of Diablo 3 a few years back)
Haven't seen so much about S interested in digital foundry results
Hope the Series X as quiet as my One X not sure I've heard the fan on it yet - been playing Minecraft dungeons last few days with my daughter surprised how fun it is (used to play loads of Diablo 3 a few years back)
Yeah its a bit disappointing how little attention the S has received so far, hopefully we will get some decent hands on reviews before launch. I know MS has to keep the hype up and the Series X is the way to do that but you can still find stock of the Series S so a bit of information would surely help sell more units.
DF have said from their last Series X video they'd be covering the Series S more for the next two weeks.
Quite a poor showing, all we've seen is a bit of footage of Gears5 120Hz mode. Although I can see Microsoft expecting the laymen buying more S units in high street shops as they see 'next gen' and '£250' and will buy it for their children for Christmas etc. People searching for juicy specs on YouTube and tech sites are naturally going to sway towards the X.
I just wonder if it's power will be difficult to draw out due to a number of limitations like the memory bandwidth, overall memory etc - if that were to be the case how much effort will developers put in just for the Series S - especially on back compatible games ?
Vs Series X and PS5 which will just brute force their way through
Time will tell - I'm intrigued. Just read DMC5 Twitter post stating no RT on Series S version ?
Vs Series X and PS5 which will just brute force their way through
Time will tell - I'm intrigued. Just read DMC5 Twitter post stating no RT on Series S version ?