i don't always have two OLED tvs in my living room but when i do is for a
side-by-side comparison between the last generation xbox one x and the brand new
xbox series x yes my friends we're going
to be taking a look at the backwards compatibility of the xbox series x and
its performance in a variety of last generation xbox games after all one of
the main selling points of the xbox series x since it doesn't have a ton of
launch games is its intergenerational compatibility going all the way back not
to the 360 but even to the original xbox
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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
is how even if you've got like a media console that's not designed for
standard home theater width devices for example this thing is going to fit
perfectly like here let me get my vr like boom
easy peasy all you got to do is pull a Linus and uh
put like ventilation fans into your into your cabinet if you want to see
impressions of the console physically go check out our ShortCircuit channel
today is all about the
gaming experience so both consoles are off and of course our first test is
gonna be to see if that brand new super
fast SSD velocity architecture helps it
boot up faster three two one go oh i
totally schooled you oh wow i was way ahead of you yeah but
we don't have a signal yet smart guy oh oh who's got a signal now did you
press the same time oh yeah look at that last generation 4k
marketing oh yeah tips only 53.35 sup l although we did
discover that when the console is sleeping it's actually almost the same
so this is only going to be applicable when you're booting cold oh i'm in game
day wow did that just quick resume yeah from
cold off yeah wow this is freaking
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
pretty cool um even though i'm as you guys know kind
of more of a usually i play games on pc when i'm gonna play games type of guy
that was a lot faster than any gaming pc that i've ever used to
go from not playing a game to playing a game oh yours looks like dog crap
why are you sure you're even running at 4k i think it is very fair to say that
that is pc quality i don't feel like this is a compromised experience right
now i mean other than this but like look how squishy that i'm in 4k that is
disgusting like who can game like that all right so let's see it then
apparently this is in fact 4k it's just
gross roadie 4k because everything looks
not just soft but less defined when we look at them side
by side holding still like this the differences in image quality are
kind of subtle i guess like it's mostly down to the lower rendering resolution
on the xbox one x where you really notice it is when you're running and
gunning around because this is a dynamic resolution game so what it means is that
the render quality can actually go up and down depending on the intensity of
the action that's why from the couch i wouldn't be able to
tell the difference between these two now but when we're running around it's a
night and day difference we're not going to focus too much on the differences in the interface just because this is not
final software so it wouldn't be fully representative of what you guys are
going to get at home wait for the full review of the xbox series x for that not
every game like do maternal on the one x is going to
you know run smoothly but just dynamically change
the quality monster hunter world for example here
does not run smoothly on the xbox one x
the difference between them side by side in terms of image quality i wouldn't say
is um that big well that's actually no i
think there's some auto HDR happening on the series that makes it look way nicer
do we have variable refresh rate enabled on here let me just have a quick look at
the settings allow variable refresh rate no variable refresh rate is not enabled
so what that means then is that that smoothness that i'm experiencing is
definitely just the series x being that much more freaking powerful than
the xbox one x i think a lot of people are gonna be replaying their favorites
on the new console this is a totally different experience
from just uh i don't know just my state of mind well
it gives you a reason to buy it at launch there may not be new games that
you're excited about yeah it just makes your other games better so why wait
backwards compatibility was a really good move let's go to an old xbox 360
game to see how the auto HDR feature works well the thing is microsoft has
said it's going to work in all games except games that they deliberately take
off the list because they don't think it looks good to their credit they didn't
overdo it i can definitely see some mistakes
like where the HDR effect is too strong and you end up blowing out the details a
little bit but what's interesting is that those same details are blown out
for you as well so that seems to be an artistic choice that just hasn't aged
well as opposed to a flaw in the HDR
conversion NVIDIA recently has made a ton of noise as part of their push for
ray tracing in their marketing about how lighting can make such a big difference
to the perceived realism of an image and this doesn't have retraced lighting or
anything like that but HDR really is all about the perceived lighting of a scene
and you can really see a difference in our character here this one looks more
lifelike and this one looks flatter and more
video game charactery you can really see it on the metal hey of course quick
resume is only a factor if it's a game you played relatively recently so i
intentionally fully closed final fantasy 15 before this test ready and hey we
managed to press it at exactly the same time this time and you're already behind
oh okay hold on so my bar's left
you're already 30 james barr's leg
man you're done you're done wow
i'm not even where your bar started you know what i'm really excited about
though is now that consoles have fast storage game developers are gonna be
like oh yeah we could like make loading times faster
that would be no if you have a fast CPU and you can decompress everything real
fast it's going to be great it's going to make waiting for that dude who has a
hard drive when you play online way worse oh totally you know what i mean do
you remember when uh mini games while you were loading applications used to be
a thing they might return now in this particular game
i am not uh having the 60 FPS experience
that is terrible why would they do that
because lock 30 is better than like jumping between 35 and 40. not if you
have variable refresh rate oh my god look what's going on around my hair
is that is that happening on yours i think so i think this just that's just
yeah that's not very good um
you know what this is the least impressive demo i've seen so far it just
goes to show how the difference between the two consoles really is going to
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
to do maternal boop
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that's pretty cool less than 20 seconds hold on a minute
we've only got nine games installed and we're using
pardon me 28 of our storage is that with the extra
one terabyte storage stick in it wow and most of these games aren't even
next gen games people are going to be upgrading to those two terabyte storage
units like real quick styles so yes
the next gen consoles are priced very reasonably
but at the capacities that we're gonna need
for next gen games storage has become not only the central component of the
performance and the story from both sony and microsoft it's by the time you're
done it's gonna be half the price of your console in fairness next gen games
aren't supposed to have to optimize for super slow media so they don't have to
have multiple versions of an asset for you know every level for example like
the same dumpster or what what did mark cerny refer to as like a stop sign or a
garbage can or something like that something like that so they should be
smaller in that sense but knowing game developers the projects
are gonna continue to get more ambitious so that's not gonna that's not gonna
save us for long our pc users all of a sudden then going to be bragging about
like our hybrid storage like tiered storage well you already can
just grab even a hard drive an external hard drive and just dump all your old
games on there the loading times won't be as fast but you can run them off of there and just
plug it in the usb port on the back that's a very manual process though
compared to what you can do with something like primo cache for example
where you've got an SSD and a hard drive layer and it just automatically elevates
or promotes or de-promotes whatever you're
using most frequently so then again i mean there's no reason these are just
pcs there's no reason sony and microsoft couldn't build such functionality with
an external usb drive hint wink wink nudge nudge so i'm impressed because
this is a total experience changer even if the games don't look that different
although it's not going to be for everyone and if you're a pc die hard
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