The next Xbox will quadruple XB1’s CPU, octuple its GPU performance
Xbox Series X, due in late 2020. It's tall. And it has a modified controller compared to the Xbox One pad. [credit: Xbox ]
Back in December, Microsoft showed us what the outside of the Xbox One Series X would look like. Today, the company is announcing in more detail what will be on the inside of the box, with a blog post discussing the machine's internal specs and new features focused mostly on speed and compatibility.
Forward compatibleMicrosoft reconfirmed today that "existing Xbox One games, including backward-compatible Xbox 360 and original Xbox games" would still be playable on the Series X with "steadier framerates, faster load times and improved resolution and visual fidelity-all with no developer work required." More exciting, though, Microsoft seemingly announced a new commitment to forward compatibility throughout the Xbox line via a program called Smart Delivery.
In Microsoft's words, Smart Delivery "empowers you to buy a game once and know that-whether you are playing it on Xbox One or Xbox Series X-you are getting the right version of that game on whatever Xbox you're playing on." That sounds a lot like the existing system that automatically downloads higher-resolution packages for "Xbox One X enhanced" versions of older Xbox One games. Extending the same system to the Series X, though, lets publishers take advantage of features like ray-tracing and SSD load times without needing to develop and sell an entirely new Series X-exclusive version of the game.
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