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However as the worldwide economy has a look in the mirror and tries to choose if it’s going to shut down or what, tech business are moving forward with statements they would have otherwise made at their big tech conferences and/or press rundowns.
The clearest example of that is Microsoft, which has exposed significant brand-new details about the Xbox Series X’s specifications and how it will support 1TB expansion cards the other day. Tom Warren has all the information in this post, however the one that stands apart to me is how simple it will be to add storage growth.
The Xbox Series X will allow for removable storage, but only with proprietary cards. That’s since Microsoft at least has an excellent factor– to get load times and video gaming performance up to where it desires on the Series X, it requires to guarantee storage fulfills the spec.
A lot of what the Xbox Series X is appealing is beyond the capabilities of your tv: 8K and variable refresh rates are absolutely things you’ll be searching for the next time you want to buy a high-end set. Beyond “our graphics, they’ll be expensive,” Microsoft needs something else to lure brand-new customers in.
Normally, that thing would be special video games. But Microsoft is currently on record stating that the Xbox Series X will not have exclusive video games at launch
Which leaves load times. Microsoft has a demo showing them to be radically faster than on the Xbox One X— though to me it’s more of an indictment of how video games are developed to force you to wait through them. Anyway, it’s a boring demo since half of it is simply seeing a filling screen, however that’s type of the point.
I’m also thinking about the Quick Resume feature, which as I’ve pointed out before permits multiple games to be resumed quickly, even after a reboot. I like to bounce between a few various video games in an offered week, and so this would be very important to me. Here’s how it works:
Microsoft simply caches whatever is utilized in RAM by a video game straight to the SSD, enabling the console to resume titles immediately. Microsoft isn’t saying exactly how m