Xbox Series X Os
Microsoft will deploy the same os to xbox series x that is available now on the xbox one s and xbox one x albeit with some design refinements you can see a glimpse of in the above video.
Xbox series x os. While it s a hearty chunk of change to depart with the xbox series x packs a lot of technology. Microsoft unveils xbox series x dashboard and os updates. The xbox series x costs 499 449 au 749 and matches the original msrp of the xbox one x. Whilst you expect a windows 10 storage requirement of around 32 gb at most expect the xbox series x to reserve.
The size of games increases each generation leaving some players worried about how many games they ll actually get to store on their next gen consoles. The xbox series x is powered by a custom 7 nm amd zen 2 cpu with eight cores running at a nominal 3 8 ghz or when simultaneous multithreading smt is used at 3 6 ghz. The xbox series x sports a plentiful 1 terabyte of storage by default but around 20 percent of that will be taken up by the console s operating system and other required files. If there was ever a doubt in your mind that new consoles are pcs at heart then look at the storage space reserved for the operating system and system files on the xbox series x in ign s preview.
For the best experience the 1tb seagate storage expansion card for xbox series x s plugs into the back of the console via the dedicated storage expansion port and replicates the console s custom ssd experience providing additional game storage at the same. One cpu core is dedicated to the underlying operating system. The next generation of consoles appear to have the operating system take up a significant amount of storage and the xbox series x showcases this. The xbox series s and x share an os with xbox one and the 2013 xbox one is a wildly different proposition than what we have today.
An almighty 198gb of xbox series x is earmarked away from your game storage purposes. Xbox series x media support is a bit of a mixed bag.