I don't want to sound like a Microsoft or Xbox hater because I really am not one, but the more time passes the more they talk fancy names and show fancy presentation without actually saying or clarifying much.
We already had a console teardown, and yet a lot of aspects past the general specifications are not clear at all and they never bothered to clarify later on (a lot of stuff relative to the SSD and the actual I/O structure was kept quite vague compared to the PS5 talk, even though that's a pretty major point of the new systems).
There was a full gameplay event, where the only "gameplay" anybody saw were a couple of seconds here and there as part of scripted trailers, and not a single game shown was even actually running on an Xbox (as they thankfully disclaimed, this time around).
Now with this video (and the accompanying blog post) I don't even really know what they were trying to say other than the absolute obvious or the absolutely pointless. All I can gather is that "Optimized for Series X" means that the game is an actual XSX release, not just an XB1 game running in backwards compatibility mode (well you don't fucking say), and that "select games" will run at 4K and "up to 120 fps" (again, this is so vague they are basically saying nothing; can you be bothered to name ONE game that you KNOW will run at 60, let alone one at 120?).
EDIT: I rembered and checked that on a different occasion the developers of Dirt 5 said the game will run at 120 fps on XSX. Why Microsoft doesn't parade this a lot more remains a mystery to me.
I don't doubt that the XSX will be a good piece of hardware, because the components inside it are objectively good, but I'm starting to wonder if something behind the curtains is moving slower than anticipated (like issues with devkits optimization/performance), and they are putting forward as much filler as possible for months on end with little to no substance behind.
I really hope for Microsoft's sake that they are just playing a weird waiting game and come July they will actually show something tangible running on this machine, because if a Halo video plays and I read "Game footage shown is running on equivalent hardware as it is expected to perform on Xbox Series X", then I'll feel justified anticipating issues at launch.
Tetris runs at 120 fps on the XSX