49ersfan Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 One week in and i'm loving the S and gamepass ultimate. Only have 6 games - Madden 20, UFC 3, FIFA 20, Rocket League, Battlefront 2, and Halo MCC. Even though its advertised as 512 GB, i only have 346. Probably going to get an external hard drive; there's a ton of other games on gamepass i'm intrigued to try. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elevators_rule Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 12 hours ago, 49ersfan said: One week in and i'm loving the S and gamepass ultimate. Only have 6 games - Madden 20, UFC 3, FIFA 20, Rocket League, Battlefront 2, and Halo MCC. Even though its advertised as 512 GB, i only have 346. Probably going to get an external hard drive; there's a ton of other games on gamepass i'm intrigued to try. Yeah, Game Pass Ultimate is pretty great as a deal. Unfortunately, you can't play games off of an external hard drive for any Series S games. The Series S only runs games off a solid state drive which is a good bit more expensive than a standard HDD. Last I saw they were going for around $200 for 1TB. It's pretty much a small memory card that you insert into the back of the system. You can buy an external HDD to run older Xbox games (Xbox One, 360, or original) or you can use it to just store games on and then transfer them over to your current SSD when you want to play them (quicker than downloading, but still time-consuming). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BayRaider Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 13 hours ago, 49ersfan said: One week in and i'm loving the S and gamepass ultimate. Only have 6 games - Madden 20, UFC 3, FIFA 20, Rocket League, Battlefront 2, and Halo MCC. Even though its advertised as 512 GB, i only have 346. Probably going to get an external hard drive; there's a ton of other games on gamepass i'm intrigued to try. Series S is great as a gamepass machine. The Hard Drive is def annoying though, but just try to keep your games to 5 and you should be ok. Unless you’re gonna do Call of Duty or NBA, those games are huge. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiltman Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 On 2/9/2021 at 1:34 PM, BayRaider said: Series S is great as a gamepass machine. The Hard Drive is def annoying though, but just try to keep your games to 5 and you should be ok. Unless you’re gonna do Call of Duty or NBA, those games are huge. Hopefully those integrated expansion drives drop dramatically. Apparently they will open up to more manufacturers and have bigger storage options, so that will help. I think you can store next gen games on the External drive, you just can’t play them from there like you can back compat games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob_shadows Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 1 hour ago, Kiltman said: Hopefully those integrated expansion drives drop dramatically. Apparently they will open up to more manufacturers and have bigger storage options, so that will help. I think you can store next gen games on the External drive, you just can’t play them from there like you can back compat games. Correct, that's one thing xbox did better than playstation. Unfortunately with the PS5 you can't even store the PS5 games on an external drive to swap them so you don't have to download them again but the Xbox does allow you to do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiltman Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 8 minutes ago, rob_shadows said: Correct, that's one thing xbox did better than playstation. Unfortunately with the PS5 you can't even store the PS5 games on an external drive to swap them so you don't have to download them again but the Xbox does allow you to do that. That’s odd, hopefully they can patch that at some point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiltman Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 Apparently some news could be coming next week, rumor is back compat stuff. Specifically them finding a way to increase frame rates on games without the developers needing to do anything. Similar to the ai based up scaling and auto-HDR the series x does for games. Also the Bethesda/Zenimax deal looks like it’ll be clearing the EU hurdle so that might be wrapped up 3/4 months sooner than the initial speculation of June. Hopefully we hear some more concrete plans not too long from now. Also might hear of the other rumored acquisitions once the big Bethesda deal is done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeezla Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 X Box live been down for 2 hours. This is stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsfan4life51 Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 I'm getting serious about finding one now. If anything pops up post here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elevators_rule Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 2k21, NHL 21 and Madden 21 being added on Game Pass. Pretty cool that they're adding them so soon. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiltman Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 8 hours ago, elevators_rule said: 2k21, NHL 21 and Madden 21 being added on Game Pass. Pretty cool that they're adding them so soon. Excited to play a little 2k, never buy it but always hear good things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiltman Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 On 3/2/2021 at 1:57 PM, jetsfan4life51 said: I'm getting serious about finding one now. If anything pops up post here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsfan4life51 Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 51 minutes ago, Kiltman said: Just saw now, damn! Appreciate it though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiltman Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 This is a first right? 3rd party $60 game launching day one on GP? I played the demo for it, for a destiny like game I thought it had some promise. Combat wasn’t too bullet spongey, rewards you for getting in there. Loot is more than just numbers on a screen. Always wary of them, like none have really nailed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiltman Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 FPS boost is awesome, I hope that feature keeps making its way to other games. Really polishes the way the games feel along with the no load times. Feels great on Dishonored, which I think I might finally play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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