A week with the Xbox Series X: load times, game performance, and more - The Verge

From The Verge: "I’ve spent the past week with an Xbox Series X in my living room. I’ve played a variety of games on this preview unit, testing load times, performance, and some of the new Series X features. I switched back to an older Xbox One X briefly during testing, and it was like going from cable internet back to the days of a 56k modem. That’s how much the Xbox Series X improves the games you already play every day. Everything just feels better."

[DJStotty]

Sounding good, roll on the 10th!!!

[4Sh0w]

"I switched back to an older Xbox One X briefly during testing, and it was like going from cable internet back to the days of a 56k modem. That’s how much the Xbox Series X improves the games you already play every day. Everything just feels better."

-Nice, I love new tech that performs as advertised.

[UltraNova]

Now imagine what the PS5 will be able to do with twice as fast memory-I/O! These are truly next machines!

[Unspoken]

^You think it might be like going from SSD to NVMe which was more than twice as fast of a jump(like 8x+)?

[GamerRN]

@ultranova

Twice as fast load times at the cost of a 20 to 30 percent power cost with unknown greater cost due to cpu gpu fluctuations

@unspoken

It's not like that because the XSX is NVME...

[UltraNova]

GamerRN,

The power deficit doesn't worry me because I've seen and played Sony 1st party games and they lacked nothing on the visuals department, hell they were some of the best looking last gen.

What I want to see is Sony focusing on 2K-1800p and 60fps with the ps5(perhaps we will be surprised with an AMD DLSS equivalent that will output 4K at the cost of 1800p) that way they can give us the best of both worlds.

MS can use that extra horsepower but lean on 4K/60 where possible.

That said, this Series X preview has me super excited about next gen. Gone are the days of cumbersome menus and long-ass loading times!

[Army_of_Darkness]

So this guy essentially used next gen Hardware to play current gen games and got impressed by the improve performance??...... Seriously? Isn't it Expected by default?
I don't know about you all but the first thing I'd do when I get a next gen console would be to play a next-gen game. Otherwise, what's the point?

[DJStotty]

@UltraNova

One problem, the PS5 has not announced any feature that does this without optimisation.

[bouzebbal]

Now just missing the games that can take advantage of all this... Cross gen, old gen or multiplatform not the best to show off

[Bigman4k]

I dont wanna see nothing about Xbox series x til i either can preorder one or get one

[SpadeX]

You're not missing out on much tbh. Quick resume which was announced and previewed before, quicker loading times than One X, design and size difference between Series X and S in living room. All stuff we already saw before.

Oh I forgot the lame "british jokes".

[SpadeX]

Looking at the disagrees, I wonder what is it that triggered those people... If it's the last line, that was literally a quote from the guy and he's British himself, not trying to offend anyone.

[Bigman4k]

🤨

[RangerWalk267]

I think you're getting disagrees because of the fanboyism. If any generation of consoles should/could end being a fanboy that limit's oneself to only owning one box, it's this coming generation. Both have something the other one doesn't. The argument that Xbox has "no games" is over. They now have 23 1st party studios making exclusive games. Let's all just be gamer's. If you can't afford both, then hush up and have fun with the one you pick.

[SpadeX]

@RangerWalk267

I hope you weren't referring to me with the fanboyism because I'm certainly getting both consoles. I'm more than excited to own both this time than any previous generation. I'm really not sure where my comment has any indication of fanboyism, I've only stated my opinion on the video not the consoles.

[mrsolidsteel20]

@colemacgrath

I have to admit that I’m impressed with some of the older titles being able to run at solid 60fps and we all should tip our hats to MS and team for accomplishing that. I just realize GTA 4 on the series X will be the only version to run at a solid 60fps. The PC version of this game is just disgusting how poorly it runs.

In any case, you’re right about this particular showing, these are the same exact features that MS displayed to us earlier this year and not much has changed.

[Bigman4k]

Must've been something i said 😂😂

[crazyCoconuts]

"The Xbox One had a fast resume feature to let you swap between games, but it felt like it never really worked properly or games didn’t support it. " - is that really a problem? I didn't hear ppl complaining about that

[DerfDerf]

Never had an issue with it

[glennhkboy]

@VersusDMC Other articles state that you can have a maximum of 6 games on the fast resume list. Current XBox only support 1 game, the very last game you played.

[VersusDMC]

Well all the current gen systems have a "fast resume" system for only one game at a time and several game starts has never been available on consoles before. One of the promises of next gen is that you can have several games running at the same time. And "fast resume" has never not worked on my PS4, switch,3DS or Vita...so Verge is again talking out of their ass again.

There are several other series x articles by knowledgeable people so don't get misinformed by this one...for proof of their "competence" search on you tube "Verge gaming PC reaction" for laughs.

[Om4ever]

Had many issues with it

[Marquinho]

I expected better for TheVerge. Plenty of mistakes (and bad jokes). Still, the Series X is a very exciting piece of hardware.

[gravedigger]

Loadings are fast. kHM.....RDR2 says hello!

[danny818]

WOW sounds fucking dope! im very happy i was able to pre order it on the 22ns. They internet seemed to have shut down that morning smh

[DJStotty]

I was struggling getting one from Game UK, so had Argos running at the same time, Argos got my money first lol.

[danny818]

Lmaooo same here 🤣🤣🤣

[BrainSyphoned]

Hope to see a follow up with the same games (sans sea of thieves)on PS5. My upstairs tv jumping from a 1S to a Series X is going to be great.

[Imortus_san]

Very good, I just saw Sekiro at 60fps, and FF15 also at 60fps, just bring it.

[RangerWalk267]

@ Imortus_san

And that's with zero optimization. The fact that the Xbox software engineers in the back compat department have been able to develop something that allows this to happen... Is extremely impressive. In my opinion anyway.

[Imortus_san]

And it's olny using the console brute force, no using RDNA 2 features and others.

[shabz666]

800 usable gigs on series x, oh boy what’s the ps5 usable storage.

[Chris12]

Less, as it starts with 825gb before the OS

[FyBy]

It was expected. Last gen consoles were very slow in terms of HDD speed. I owned xbox one X and it was worse then ps4 pro. It was really bad. I was curious why Sony and ms didnt allow to use ssd speed at least for system - if you insert ssd in place of old HDD.

[derek]

Surprise Surprise Microsoft's biggest shill likes the series x. Lol

[JackBNimble]

I'm going to assume you shill for sony

[derek]

@JackBNimble, yeah I'm a playstation fan never tried to hide it you dope. The difference between me and Tom Warren is im not pretending to be an actual tech journalist. The man's cheerleading for anything Microsoft is gross and unprofessional.

[Plagasx]

When is Sony gonna start letting people get their hands on the system like MS has done?...I mean come on.

[the worst]

No new games played on new Xbox yet...

[Chris12]

They are under embargo for a little longer yet.

[Benficaman]

all good stuff for the Xbox fans. Nice work Microsoft. Now i hope to see similar stuff with my future ps5

[Heather_Gr]

Sounds very reassuring.

[sampsonon]

Ummm? Playing 5+yr old games on a next gen console? The load times better be fast, no? Like let's see more demanding games load fast. Wish we could but MS doesn't have any new AAA demanding RT games to show.