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).
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).
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).
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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