The Xbox Series X Review: Ushering In The Next Generation of Game Consoles
by Brett Howse on November 5, 2020 9:00 AM ESTGameplay Analysis: Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
Moving to some games that are not yet optimized for the new console, we can check out how the backwards compatibility mode in the new console handles existing titles. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is the second game in the newly rebooted franchise and offers players a chance to explore ancient Greece.
As Ubisoft is focusing on Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, launching on November 10 as an Optimized for X|S title, it should come as no surprise that the previous title in the series is still locked at 30 FPS on both consoles.
Over the test sequences run, the Xbox One X was locked in pretty solidly at 30 FPS without any noticeable dips in the framerate, and perhaps unsurprisingly, the Series X also had no issues achieving 4K 30 FPS output.
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lefenzy - Monday, November 9, 2020 - link
Both MS and Sony consoles are very impressive. How do they manage to put 8-core zen 2 plus high-end graphics and solid state storage into a $500 console? Are both manufacturers losing money on each unit?Sub31 - Friday, November 13, 2020 - link
Yes- consoles are loss leaders.versesuvius - Tuesday, November 10, 2020 - link
"solid-stage storage" ?madseven7 - Wednesday, November 11, 2020 - link
tell me a phone with 16GB of ram, AI, that can play at 2k on a 65" screenAlexvrb - Wednesday, November 11, 2020 - link
"a much smaller 4 TFLOP GPU, which is not even as powerful as the Xbox One X from 2017"Technically the final performance is roughly equal. 4 RDNA2 TFLOPS is comparable to 6 GCN2 TFLOPS. The problem is the reduced total memory means for CURRENT titles, they have to run an upscaled version of the Xbox One S game.
For new titles specifically built with the Series S in mind (and possibly existing titles with a major update), they can use the SSD and DirectStorage to produce titles with graphics at least on par with what a One X can do. The Zen 2 cores are also a massive improvement over the ancient Jaguar cores.
vol.2 - Friday, November 13, 2020 - link
There are obviously no more game consoles. But this "generation" is significant in that it is overtly marketed as incremental upgrades. I guess the switch is still pretending with it's in-between size and semi-portability, but there isn't anywhere Nintendo can go from there. Either they continue to upgrade the switch and make the form-factor their differentiator, or they do the same thing as Sony and MS and just overtly make and sell computers that are simply locked into their own game title ecosystem.CoderScribe - Saturday, November 28, 2020 - link
Great review, please now do PS5, since that's what most of us will actually be playing and has more interesting architectural quirks for analysis.