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At the time of this writing, he was less than two days old and 19 years old – on November 15, 2001, the first Xbox was released. The console was originally invented in 1998 by four engineers from the Microsoft DirectX team, Kevin Bachus, Seamus Blackley, Ted Hase, and their leader, Otto Berkes, when they dismantled some Dell laptops to build a prototype of a Microsoft Windows compatible video game console. .
The team wanted to create a console that could successfully counter Sony’s PlayStation 2, which attracted many video game developers outside of the Windows platform. The team approached Ed Fries, then director of Microsoft’s game publishing division, and later
You were introduced to our “DirectX Box” game console based on DirectX graphics technology developed by the Berkes team.
Fries supported the idea of a Windows DirectX-based console, although the console’s name was eventually shortened to Xbox. Microsoft’s marketing department didn’t like the Xbox name anyway, but through customer testimonials, the console remained and console production was able to begin. As they say, the rest is history …
Not so much a fridge feel
After unpacking the console box, immediately the first impression
much prettier and more elegant than the images had anticipated.
Many people found the PlayStation 5 to be fancier, but the truth is that Sony’s hideous console, which is tremendously large in size and looks like a huge piece of router, doesn’t really look much more beautiful. Sure, it’s all a matter of subjective judgment, but the truth is that the Xbox Series X is smaller than its rival PlayStation 5. If it had not been a meme (and Snoop Dogg, the well-known American rapper would not take a joke out of a refrigerator shaped like Microsoft’s Xbox) then I wouldn’t even think to compare it to a refrigerator.
Hardware-wise, the XSX comes with a 3.8GHz octa-core AMD Zen 2 processor, which, among other things, drives an AMD RDNA 2 graphics core with 12 teraflop computing power and 16GB of memory. GDDR6.
The front of the machine has a disk input, a USB 3.2 port, two switches, and a round power button that uses the Xbox logo, which glows white when the console is on. The minimalist yet delicate design was a huge plus for me on the console, perhaps one of the fanciest Xbox skins released so far (quite a few changes).
As for the controller, not much has changed externally, just that it has become a little clearer. Even those who don’t like the console series tend to acknowledge that Microsoft makes the best controllers for their machines, and that’s typical of this college too. It is extremely comfortable to grip, it fits into the fact that a game starts, we almost forget that we have a controller in our hands, we only focus on the gaming experience.
Quiet like Don but need the net
The other positive aspect of the console is that it does its work in a very discreet and quiet way, our family does not start screaming while we play with headphones. (It may seem trivial to laymen, but anyone with a PlayStation 4 Pro at home knows what it’s like when their machine makes sounds like a spaceship taking off when they launch an intensive triple-A title.)
We only hear it’s there when the Xbox beeps and the Blu-ray drive spins.
The big question, of course, is how much the huge fan bearings on top of the machine can withstand wrinkles, as the PS4 Pro didn’t hear me louder right after purchase, but for about a year and a half.
Once turned on, the console immediately requires the internet and a Microsoft account, similar to the Xbox One X. You can of course use Wi-Fi or a network cable for the network connection. The installation process is pretty much the same as for the One X anyway, so we won’t be too surprised in this area. Here, we can use an application available for Android and iOS, which is quite practical, especially with regard to the rather spartan installation software installed on the machine. The downside is that if you change Wi-Fi sources (after a trip, for example), you will always have to re-enter your Wi-Fi password because you don’t remember it; that’s a pretty poor solution compared to smartphones for example.
If your cart is short, add another! (Assassin’s Creed Valhalla – Source: Ubisoft)
Patience, create a first start, then events turn
Once the machine has started up quickly and gracefully, you’ll want the individual user to immediately dive into the games. We got an Assassin’s Creed Valhalla to test out and when we put it on the machine it first got a 46Gb update off the network, which didn’t take two minutes until it came out. THE before starting the game for the first time So is it worth it
have the patience of a Tibetan monk
and plan some other activity; for example, you can watch your favorite movie on Blu-ray or maybe listen to a CD. I’d like to point out here that you also need to remove separate players from the network for this, the console doesn’t start them automatically, in other words there is no built-in software, which is a bit of fun if you think of music on CDs or movies on DVD in the old Xbox 2001. could play it without any kecmec installation. Fortunately, you can change the download order in a matter of seconds, and the Xbox Series X interface is transparent and practical in this area as well.
When the game finally kicks off, the intro kicks off orders of magnitude faster than on an Xbox One X, which still uses a traditional hard drive. Once you’ve played Assassin’s Creed Valhalla a bit, you also have to wait just 17 seconds for the game to load, an Xbox One X needs the same minute 19 seconds (!).
It is also important to mention that the Xbox system remembers all our old settings, saved games, and by syncing from the cloud, we can pick up where we left off in the previous generation. Of course, this is also true for the xCloud used on the smartphone, so if we play on it for the last time, XSX will take care of the backups, so we will continue the game from where we left off in the generation. previous.
Don’t pass the Game Pass
If you’re brainstorming about buying a next-gen console, there’s one very important difference between the Xbox Series X and the PlayStation 5: While Sony makes its consoles attractive with exclusive new titles, purchased separately, Microsoft It has been on the console, PC for some time. I and more recently (with xCloud) tried to chain your users with Game Pass, which is also available on Android and iOS. The advantage of the Game Pass is that in exchange for a monthly fee of HUF 3,000 you can get a huge triple A offer (of older titles already published), from which you can download almost any game to your own console, PC or xCloud , smartphone at any time. (It’s important to add that some PC addresses don’t run on a console, such as the latest Microsoft Flight Simulator crash or some strategy games, and that games that run on xCloud on a smartphone are currently limited to streaming. Game Pass is an extremely attractive offering anyway, a bit like Netflix’s world of video games.
On the bright side, triple-A titles are expected to be included in the future – the terrifyingly promising Xbox Series X exclusive horror game themed Silent Hill on console, The Medium, and the other long-awaited XSX. address, which will only appear on this console in addition to a PC: STALKER 2. Since Microsoft has acquired Bethesda Software, the Elder Scroll, DOOM, Fallout and Dishonored sections will certainly be free (or may even be exclusive) for both XSX and Game Pass.
Steve Ballmer at the time, his throat ripped out, cried out sweatily at that
“Developers, developers, developers !!!”
and now his dream and Microsoft’s has finally come true as there are now many developers working for Microsoft just to
exclusive to the console, or at least appearing safely on the console
video games, so Sony’s lead in this area has diminished somewhat.
And now that?
I ran a little early, so let’s get back to the current offer. What makes the new generation better, more beautiful than the one that now gives up? What does the Xbox Series X know about what current consoles do? What new experiences do we get for our money in the game, graphics with new titles?
Like all next-gen consoles, the Xbox Series X is obviously prettier and faster than the old one, but we won’t always see such a difference up front as we did with previous generational changes, at least if you already have an Xbox One X. or PS4 Pro at home. 4K resolution was given and games that are now on the market or are being avoided have mostly been developed for current machines. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, for example, isn’t much better on the new console than those two older machines, but in return
it loads faster and runs at 60fps.
I tried Gears 5, Forza Horizon 4, and Ori and the Will of the Wisps, which have all been updated to XSX, and they are, if not frankly, really better (especially Gears 5, which is also a ray tracing update). received and beautifully reflects surfaces that previously only shone; here, however, the graphics setting is actually quite strong). Ori and the Will of the Wisps ran in a kind of “enhanced” 6K on my Sony 4K TV; Let’s not say I’m not saying I would have noticed any difference in the otherwise very nice 2D platformer at a glance.
As for the specific gameplay – as we wrote in the Assassin’s Creed Valhalla review that came with the console – while it’s a really cool and very enjoyable game, it’s not dazzling with the gameplay, artificial intelligence, or graphics. Where it really is is expected (based on information so far) to go hand in hand with next-gen graphics and in-game fixes, the console-exclusive horror of the aforementioned XSX / S, The Medium, to be released. next january.
In a split second, you can instantly switch between two “planes of existence” that require quite different graphic displays.
It is also worth noting that existing games are constantly being updated retrospectively, even since the first era of Xbox / Xbox 360. I would say that anyone who votes for confidence in the new generation of Xbox, who is sympathetic to the gameplay, the Game Pass system and technical parameters (plus you can get it), you may want to dive in even now with the new Xbox Series X offer. Generation.
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