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i don't always have two OLED tvs in my living room but when i do is for a

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side-by-side comparison between the last generation xbox one x and the brand new

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xbox series x yes my friends we're going

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to be taking a look at the backwards compatibility of the xbox series x and

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its performance in a variety of last generation xbox games after all one of

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the main selling points of the xbox series x since it doesn't have a ton of

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launch games is its intergenerational compatibility going all the way back not

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to the 360 but even to the original xbox

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this is going to be fun ridge wallet wants to redefine the wallet with its

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compact frame and rfid blocking plates use offer code Linus to get 10 percent

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off and get free worldwide shipping keep your wallet bulge down today

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before we start i talked about this in the ShortCircuit video but one of the things i like so much about the series x

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is how even if you've got like a media console that's not designed for

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standard home theater width devices for example this thing is going to fit

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perfectly like here let me get my vr like boom

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easy peasy all you got to do is pull a Linus and uh

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put like ventilation fans into your into your cabinet if you want to see

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impressions of the console physically go check out our ShortCircuit channel

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today is all about the

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gaming experience so both consoles are off and of course our first test is

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gonna be to see if that brand new super

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fast SSD velocity architecture helps it

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boot up faster three two one go oh i

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totally schooled you oh wow i was way ahead of you yeah but

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we don't have a signal yet smart guy oh oh who's got a signal now did you

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press the same time oh yeah look at that last generation 4k

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marketing oh yeah tips only 53.35 sup l although we did

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discover that when the console is sleeping it's actually almost the same

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so this is only going to be applicable when you're booting cold oh i'm in game

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day wow did that just quick resume yeah from

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cold off yeah wow this is freaking

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this actually looks really good okay let's see how many kills i get by the time you're in game you know what's

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pretty cool um even though i'm as you guys know kind

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of more of a usually i play games on pc when i'm gonna play games type of guy

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that was a lot faster than any gaming pc that i've ever used to

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go from not playing a game to playing a game oh yours looks like dog crap

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why are you sure you're even running at 4k i think it is very fair to say that

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that is pc quality i don't feel like this is a compromised experience right

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now i mean other than this but like look how squishy that i'm in 4k that is

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disgusting like who can game like that all right so let's see it then

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apparently this is in fact 4k it's just

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gross roadie 4k because everything looks

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not just soft but less defined when we look at them side

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by side holding still like this the differences in image quality are

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kind of subtle i guess like it's mostly down to the lower rendering resolution

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on the xbox one x where you really notice it is when you're running and

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gunning around because this is a dynamic resolution game so what it means is that

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the render quality can actually go up and down depending on the intensity of

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the action that's why from the couch i wouldn't be able to

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tell the difference between these two now but when we're running around it's a

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night and day difference we're not going to focus too much on the differences in the interface just because this is not

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final software so it wouldn't be fully representative of what you guys are

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going to get at home wait for the full review of the xbox series x for that not

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every game like do maternal on the one x is going to

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you know run smoothly but just dynamically change

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the quality monster hunter world for example here

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does not run smoothly on the xbox one x

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the difference between them side by side in terms of image quality i wouldn't say

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is um that big well that's actually no i

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think there's some auto HDR happening on the series that makes it look way nicer

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do we have variable refresh rate enabled on here let me just have a quick look at

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the settings allow variable refresh rate no variable refresh rate is not enabled

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so what that means then is that that smoothness that i'm experiencing is

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definitely just the series x being that much more freaking powerful than

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the xbox one x i think a lot of people are gonna be replaying their favorites

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on the new console this is a totally different experience

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from just uh i don't know just my state of mind well

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it gives you a reason to buy it at launch there may not be new games that

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you're excited about yeah it just makes your other games better so why wait

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backwards compatibility was a really good move let's go to an old xbox 360

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game to see how the auto HDR feature works well the thing is microsoft has

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said it's going to work in all games except games that they deliberately take

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off the list because they don't think it looks good to their credit they didn't

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overdo it i can definitely see some mistakes

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like where the HDR effect is too strong and you end up blowing out the details a

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little bit but what's interesting is that those same details are blown out

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for you as well so that seems to be an artistic choice that just hasn't aged

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well as opposed to a flaw in the HDR

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conversion NVIDIA recently has made a ton of noise as part of their push for

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ray tracing in their marketing about how lighting can make such a big difference

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to the perceived realism of an image and this doesn't have retraced lighting or

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anything like that but HDR really is all about the perceived lighting of a scene

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and you can really see a difference in our character here this one looks more

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lifelike and this one looks flatter and more

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video game charactery you can really see it on the metal hey of course quick

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resume is only a factor if it's a game you played relatively recently so i

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intentionally fully closed final fantasy 15 before this test ready and hey we

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managed to press it at exactly the same time this time and you're already behind

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oh okay hold on so my bar's left

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you're already 30 james barr's leg

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man you're done you're done wow

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i'm not even where your bar started you know what i'm really excited about

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though is now that consoles have fast storage game developers are gonna be

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like oh yeah we could like make loading times faster

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that would be no if you have a fast CPU and you can decompress everything real

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fast it's going to be great it's going to make waiting for that dude who has a

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hard drive when you play online way worse oh totally you know what i mean do

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you remember when uh mini games while you were loading applications used to be

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a thing they might return now in this particular game

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i am not uh having the 60 FPS experience

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that is terrible why would they do that

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because lock 30 is better than like jumping between 35 and 40. not if you

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have variable refresh rate oh my god look what's going on around my hair

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is that is that happening on yours i think so i think this just that's just

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yeah that's not very good um

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you know what this is the least impressive demo i've seen so far it just

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goes to show how the difference between the two consoles really is going to

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depend on which game alright now that you've opened up a bunch of games give us a demo a quick resume let's go back

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to do maternal boop

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the icon

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that's pretty cool less than 20 seconds hold on a minute

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we've only got nine games installed and we're using

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pardon me 28 of our storage is that with the extra

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one terabyte storage stick in it wow and most of these games aren't even

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next gen games people are going to be upgrading to those two terabyte storage

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units like real quick styles so yes

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the next gen consoles are priced very reasonably

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but at the capacities that we're gonna need

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for next gen games storage has become not only the central component of the

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performance and the story from both sony and microsoft it's by the time you're

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done it's gonna be half the price of your console in fairness next gen games

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aren't supposed to have to optimize for super slow media so they don't have to

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have multiple versions of an asset for you know every level for example like

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the same dumpster or what what did mark cerny refer to as like a stop sign or a

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garbage can or something like that something like that so they should be

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smaller in that sense but knowing game developers the projects

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are gonna continue to get more ambitious so that's not gonna that's not gonna

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save us for long our pc users all of a sudden then going to be bragging about

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like our hybrid storage like tiered storage well you already can

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just grab even a hard drive an external hard drive and just dump all your old

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games on there the loading times won't be as fast but you can run them off of there and just

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plug it in the usb port on the back that's a very manual process though

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compared to what you can do with something like primo cache for example

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where you've got an SSD and a hard drive layer and it just automatically elevates

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or promotes or de-promotes whatever you're

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using most frequently so then again i mean there's no reason these are just

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pcs there's no reason sony and microsoft couldn't build such functionality with

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an external usb drive hint wink wink nudge nudge so i'm impressed because

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this is a total experience changer even if the games don't look that different

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although it's not going to be for everyone and if you're a pc die hard

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check out our impressions of the xbox series controller it's well it's

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slightly different