Official XBOX Series X thread

Last month I got one of those emails Microsoft was sending out informing people about a limited restock of Series X systems that were available directly to those who received the email...so because current market conditions inspire a sort of feast or famine reaction when an opportunity presents itself, I decided to bite.

I've been enjoying it so far. It's certainly a nice upgrade over the Xbox One S I was using previously. The One S was very obviously showing its age with more recent titles—especially cross-gen titles—having to make very noticeable sacrifices to resolution and overall graphical fidelity.

I mostly use my consoles for playing coop games with the GF, so it'll be nice to get through the rest of our planned coop titles with the advantages of the new hardware. I'll probably end up playing some single player on it as well, but I mostly play solo titles on my PC (I've been playing Halo Infinite on PC, which looks and runs good enough for me on my 1070).


SirBaron said:
Halo is fun, interior sections look great, outdoor looks sometimes nice, sometimes last gen.
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Well, it is technically a cross-gen title. It was originally developed for the One/X and even after switching to the Series S/X it still had to use the One/X as a baseline. It certainly caused the overall look to feel a little restrained and inconsistent, but in general I think it's a pretty nice looking game. They're supposed to add some ray tracing features at some point, although I don't think they've said exactly what they're going to be (reflections are probably a safe bet, maybe some RT shadows...but I'd be surprised to see some level of GI attempted).
 
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I'm going to say it....... I have a £2,500+ gaming P.C. with an RTX3090 and I prefer to play FORZA horizon 5 on my Xbox series X. It's so much more stable.

Xbox plays smoother at 4k HDR on my t.v. than my p.c. does at 1440p on a g-sync monitor.
 
Cream said:
I'm going to say it....... I have a £2,500+ gaming P.C. with an RTX3090 and I prefer to play FORZA horizon 5 on my Xbox series X. It's so much more stable.

Xbox plays smoother at 4k HDR on my t.v. than my p.c. does at 1440p on a g-sync monitor.
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Yup. If they'd get consistent m+k support for everything on xbox, I might consider abandoning PC gaming entirely. I'm so tired of constantly fiddling with things on my PC. I also hate myself for paying $1000 for a mid-range GPU.
 
Cream said:
I'm going to say it....... I have a £2,500+ gaming P.C. with an RTX3090 and I prefer to play FORZA horizon 5 on my Xbox series X. It's so much more stable.

Xbox plays smoother at 4k HDR on my t.v. than my p.c. does at 1440p on a g-sync monitor.
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Huh? I’m only on a 3080 and Forza Horizon 5 is ultra smooth max settings @4k and 4x msaa. Stays well above 60fps.
 
jimjobob said:
Huh? I’m only on a 3080 and Forza Horizon 5 is ultra smooth max settings @4k and 4x msaa. Stays well above 60fps.
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Plays 120fps+, drops to about 80fps but has horrid micro stutter/frame timing. So much smoother on the Xbox.
 
Cream said:
Plays 120fps+, drops to about 80fps but has horrid micro stutter/frame timing. So much smoother on the Xbox.
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Might be your system. I experienced this on my 3070 but it was only when I got the message that low bandwidth. You have to turn down 1 setting for it to work correctly without vram issues. Didn’t face it at all on my 3090.

Other reasons I can think of 6 core CPU limitation is why you are facing micro stutters. Used to happen to me on my 8700K as well and why I upgraded to 5900X and never bought another 6 core CPU. I can also think of 16GB system ram also causing these issues which is why I upgraded my 10700 rig with a 32 GB kit. No stutters after that upgrade.
 
Mouse and Keyboard is certainly much better support than it used to be, but I agree I want to see it on everything.
 
SirBaron said:
Mouse and Keyboard is certainly much better support than it used to be, but I agree I want to see it on everything.
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It bothers me alot that neither of the new Doom games have m+k support on consoles. It seems like such an obvious game to include it for.
 
I tried playing Doom on X1X. Lasted maybe 2 levels before I gave up. Played it on PC like a boss!
 
Cream said:
Plays 120fps+, drops to about 80fps but has horrid micro stutter/frame timing. So much smoother on the Xbox.
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Oddly enough, I experienced this myself recently and was like WTF? I minimized the game window to see if I could figure out what was going on and found two minimized Halo Infinites running in the background. Closed those up and when I went back to the game, it was back to buttery smooth. This would lead me to believe it’s a system bottleneck as KAC has suggested.
 
Game Pass (for Xbox or PC) is only worth it if you play a lot of games, right? I only really play games I am really interested in which aren't many. It would be better for me to outright buy the game rather than use Game Pass, correct?
 
Kain said:
Game Pass (for Xbox or PC) is only worth it if you play a lot of games, right? I only really play games I am really interested in which aren't many. It would be better for me to outright buy the game rather than use Game Pass, correct?
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Are there games in Gamepass you're interested in right now? They are always adding plus all first party are day one.

To me it's a no brainer. I try way more games this way and if I don't like them it's no issue moving on to another.
 
Kain said:
Game Pass (for Xbox or PC) is only worth it if you play a lot of games, right? I only really play games I am really interested in which aren't many. It would be better for me to outright buy the game rather than use Game Pass, correct?
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Couple of games a year and you have your money back. No-brainer really.

Oh and if you have Xbox and P.C. you can play co-op on one game pass.
 
Kain said:
Game Pass (for Xbox or PC) is only worth it if you play a lot of games, right? I only really play games I am really interested in which aren't many. It would be better for me to outright buy the game rather than use Game Pass, correct?
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Cream said:
Couple of games a year and you have your money back. No-brainer really.

Oh and if you have Xbox and P.C. you can play co-op on one game pass.
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Yup. Gamepass is worth it if you would have bought 2 $60 games per year.

I love Gamepass because I end up sampling alot more games than actually playing through them. These days I rarely dive deeply into a game.
 
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Is Game Pass exclusive to the Microsoft Store? Asking because EA Play is also available on Steam.

Edit: Yes it is and you get an EA Play membership with Game Pass.
 
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My local gamestop had about half-a-dozen series x for in-store pickup. So I grabbed my xb1x and ps4 pro for a trade-in. Both fetched $280 each and with the $100 gift card, I broke dead even. I'm now fully next gen :up:

update: the series x was part of a bundle so it was not the standard $499.
 
Yeah, Gamestop is giving crazy trade-in values for the previous gen consoles. Hope you enjoy the Series X!
 
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