Xbox Series S enhances backward compatible original Xbox and Xbox 360 games

Afterwards the official reveal of the Xbox Series South, one bit of concern has been about how the console volition run backward compatible games in Xbox I Southward way, rather than applying the Xbox 1 Ten enhancements like the Xbox Serial X allows. While this is true for Xbox Ane games, it's appears it's actually a lot more than complicated when it comes to other titles like original Xbox or enhanced Xbox 360 games.

Per Digital Foundry, Xbox Serial S enhanced original Xbox games by a factor of 3x, increasing the resolution from 480p to 1440p. Similarly, enhanced Xbox 360 titles like have their resolution increased past 2x to 1440p. While this isn't the 4K upgrade seen on the Xbox One 10 that will behave over to Xbox Series X, it's a far weep from leaving the games untouched in spite of the more than limited Xbox Serial Due south specs.

In addition to supporting the aforementioned "auto HDR" machine learning that the Xbox Series X tin can utilize to games like Halo v: Guardians, the Xbox Series S will also support the doubling of framerates for select games.

"We designed the Serial Due south to enhance the Xbox One S games in a way that the Xbox One 10 tin can't practice," system architect Andrew Goossen told Digital Foundry. "We made information technology easy for existing Xbox One S games to be updated to run with double the frame-rate when played on Series S likewise."

This is just some other cistron to keep in mind when deciding between the Xbox Series Ten and Xbox Series S. Preorders for both consoles are set to open on September 22, with the Xbox Series 10 costing $499 and the Xbox Series South costing $299. Both consoles are scheduled to release on November ten.

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