4K / 60 Gaming and Silent Operation: What You Need to Know About Xbox Series X

9.5/10Rating by FerraXbox Series XAfter a series of failures in the last generation of consoles, Microsoft is trying its best to

to catch up - and judging by the changing mood among gamers, they are even succeeding. But is the new Xbox Series X any good?

Table of contents

  • Appearance
  • Hardware
  • Gamepad
  • Launching games, operating volume, temperature
  • Games, backward compatibility, dashboard
  • Competitors
  • Playstation 5
  • Xbox series s
  • Total

In the last generation of consoles, Xbox started stronglybehind the PlayStation from the start. In Russia, the start of PS4 sales took place simultaneously with Europe, on November 29, 2013 (two weeks later than in North America), but the Xbox One reached us only on September 7, 2014 - thus, the PS4 had a whole year head start. The problems were not only this, of course: poor marketing, unclear positioning of the console, lack of communication with the end consumer - all this resulted in an extremely weak start.

The restructuring of the Xbox division began withpersonnel changes - Phil Spencer was put at the helm, who, by the way, came to work at Microsoft back in 1988. Spencer knows games, loves games, and knows what gamers need. Under his leadership, a more powerful (including more powerful than its competitor) Xbox One X console was released, the Xbox Game Pass subscription appeared, which is still recognized by many as the main argument in favor of choosing an Xbox console, deals were concluded with many game studios .

In general, Microsoft firmly decided to "recapture" theirplace in the video game market, not forgetting, however, to promote tolerance towards other gaming platforms among fans, which, of course, contrasts sharply with the policy of PlayStation, which decided to create something like an "elite club", and encourages, among other things, a very odious blogger Itpedia, which quite often and very sharply speaks about all platforms other than PlayStation, and about gamers.

The current generation of consoles from Microsoftstarts earlier than Sony, opening the start of sales on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S on November 10 worldwide, while the PlayStation 5 in select countries will go on sale on November 12, and in our country (as well as others, “not selected”) — November 19. By the way, information has appeared that on November 19, the PS5 will be sold only through pre-orders, and you won’t be able to come to the store and buy it. We haven't heard anything like this about the Xbox Series X yet.

I have already tested the new console from Microsoft, and am ready to share my impressions in this review.

Appearance

Despite the fact that the overall design of the Xbox Series X, shown back in the first half of 2020, was greeted warmly by the public, there are still several controversial points in it.