No new game reveals...….Still 16GB seems low to me for a next generation, XBONEX already had 12.....What's more is that 10GB alone is Optimal/High speed....Almost reminds me of the GTX 970 situation……..2.5GB of lower speed memory for the OS means the OS and swapping features may lag on top of the games, but then we also see 3.5GB of lower speed memory that can be utilized by the devs, I dont think this is ideal and may bring with it some bottlenecks….
Ideally, they should have gone with 16GB of Optimal Memory and 4GB of a separate lower speed memory just for the OS and boost that with some NVME storage.....As it stands 16GB in total is low, 13.5GB of mixed speed memory is an issue and only 10GB of only Optimal memory is really really low for next gen games....if you are going to push 4k, 120Hz, 8K etc......
The back compat thing is a given, but Richard said Gears Remake is 4K from 1080p on XBONES wasn't that game already 4k on XBONEX? So it's not like series X is taking it from 1080p to 4K.....I'm thinking it's just using XBONEX code...…The games in saved states is allright, but they only tested last gen games...…I still find the 5-6 seconds it takes for these old games on new gen storage tech should be faster......I think loadtimes there should take no more than 2 seconds ideally....So I'm wondering how long new gen Series X games will take to load from saved states...
All in all, a competent enough piece of kit, but we need to see what their new games will look like...…CPU power should help with uncapped framerate plenty on older BC games.....In as much as Richard says it doesn't look like a PC it actually does look like a min-PC, especially the way they put everything together in a screwless type slot your parts in type system......…One thing sticks out to me and that's the ram and the SSD tech needs to impress a bit more from what I'm seeing......