Xbox Series S will not support Xbox One X backward compatibility enhancements - confirmed by Microsoft

[golem]

@Marduk

The Outer World here looks better on Series S, I think it’s enhanced for XSS?

I think most first party titles will get Series specific patches (Rip Sunset tho). I cant imagine FH4 being less than 60 on the XSS.

[Ruthwik_Rao]

@golem

I think most first party titles will get Series specific patches (Rip Sunset tho). I cant imagine FH4 being less than 60 on the XSS.

Absolutely no racer can (and should) be less than 60fps tbh

[Colbert]

@SuikerBrood

I don’t understand it to be honest. I understand that it’s not a 4K console, blablabla. But it’s powerful enough to do it. I hope they work on this after launch. Xbox 360 and Xbox One games should run 1440p on Series S.

The reason is that the One X was always targeting 4K and all specs were set to support that purpose. GPU is just one contributor to this, there are amount of memory and memory bandwidth too. The memory and the bandwidth of the Series X is much lower than the One X. Combine those spec differences and you know why it is how it is.

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[Ushay]

It isn’t designed for 4k so this makes perfect sense to me.

[KageMaru]

This makes total sense and I’ve been expecting this news from the beginning. Games with variable frame rates or dynamic resolutions should hit the target resolutions more often, if not 100% now though. Really, anyone that wants high resolutions will get the Series X.

@Colbert

The reason is that the One X was always targeting 4K and all specs were set to support that purpose. GPU is just one contributor to this, there are amount of memory and memory bandwidth too. The memory and the bandwidth of the Series X is much lower than the One X. Combine those spec differences and you know why it is how it is.

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Bingo, well said and was basically going to repeat the same thing.