Microsoft Xbox One X (XBOX) Reviews and Impressions

Unless their method is picking random numbers to represent each console ...

 

I would hope not haha.
There is a level a trust admittedly. If the results are not reproducible at all or the values comparatively way off. Then the numbers are completely useless.

 

To make a car reference... This ferrari is running around somewhere in heavy traffic within exactly 38.6 seconds. This lambo with my mom driving is going around a few blocks in exactly 37.9 so it's very close! Not sure about the red lights timing in that test but who cares.

 

And here I thought you were going to go with how much it costs to fill the tank between a SUV, a high octane sports car, and a short bus?

 

Glad to hear significant (~30%) loading time improvements on existing titles.

However 4K is 4x pixel count compared to 1080p. 30% advantage in HDD speed isn't going to enough to load 4K textures as quickly as existing titles load 1080p textures on existing hardware. We are talking about filling 9 GB of memory vs 5 GB (80% increase). Interesting to see how this pans out.

 

How far can we take compression on the current consoles sebbbi?

 

i did start a thread earlier on in the year regarding texture compression.
but i guess one of the benefits are 'can just move pc assets across', which you couldn't do if used different/non universal format.

loading times is one of the things that i consider to be very important. But i expect the 4k asset enhanced games to load at approx the same time as base hardware. Give or take a few seconds.
be interesting to see benchmarks.

1X lod levels will be different so streaming may be ok as won't need to keep swapping out textures? E.g. instead of having to load 6 levels, may only need 4, so have time to steam in the larger textures.

 

See the Maka video or my posts summary earlier in this thread for Gears of War 4 tests. The xbox One X loads 4K enhancements close to same time as Xbox One S standard, and Super Lucky Tales xbox one x loads faster at 4k than xbox one s.

 

This is pretty interesting article. I didn't know Penny Arcade guys would be so devout. But interesting read. Very encouraging news for prospective X buyers.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2017/11/06/the-xbox-one-x
My choice quote which happens to be the introduction:

 

Some of the bits that I thought were worth mentioning.

That was while playing AC: Origins after restarting the entire campaign despite playing 20 hours already on the PS4-P

So, he isn't the only one there that was impressed by the XBO-X.

Regards,
SB

 

I find him annoyingly verbose. Promising impressions though.

 

Is anyone else having extremely slow download speed for the 750mb update at the moment? I suppose it's due to the launch day that everyone's downloading it and the server is hammered?

 

Yea this is probably what's happening:
Everyone patching systems
Patching games
Patching Enhanced editions of games
I won't get mine for another 3 hours! Lucky you!!

But launch day is today for me lol. I guess you must be further ahead in TZ.

This seems to feel like a much larger launch than the OG. At least hype wise it is.

 

Don't sweat it, it'll be a long while before I can actually play an enhanced game when all is downloaded and updated lol.

Also if I may ask, when I took my Scorpio out of the box and flipped it a bit I hear some clicking sound as if a small piece of loose plastic or screw was moving inside. Is it something I should be worried about?

 

You know what, bash me , call me fanboy , whatever I will take it. Gears of war 4 on this thing makes every, and I do mean every, pro game look blurry in comparison. I will stop here , but I have to say that ms delivered. This does feel like a next gen console.

 

How loose does the thing sound like...? Is it like something wiggling back and forth in the same place (in which case it might be a push-button of some sort, or maybe something in the optical drive), or is it something which is truly loose and moving from place to place inside the casing...?

If the latter I would be more concerned! Maybe you could twist and turn the console to make the thing fall out of an air vent.

 

Yesterday Comcast had a major mess with their network around the US. Comcast says they have it fixed, but I have no idea if they're still having issues of other sorts.

 

I'm from Australia but yeah the server here could also be f**ed too.

It's definitely sounding like something's moving back and forth around the same spot, not going all over the place. The system is updating at the moment so no issues yet.

 

It is probably some mechanical bit in the optical drive then - or so I would guess. If you haven't inserted a disc into the drive it could possibly be the little magnetic hubcap thingy that holds down the disc to the hub motor.

 

Yeah there's no disc inside, so I guess that's normal then? I tried to tip the PS4 Pro just then as well and there was no sound with no disc inside, perhaps the optical drive inside the Pro is structured differently.