| Both consoles are with many previous generation Xbox games, controllers, and accessories | This charging stand easily charges two controllers simultaneously, letting you get back to your game faster |
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| If you play a lot of smaller indie games off of Game Pass, you can still load up a bunch of them | Microsoft is providing development tools for developers to check the performance of their Xbox One games on the Series X and S consoles, which can suggest optimizations "as easy as changing three lines of code" to support the improvements in backward compatibility |
Some were distributed to celebrities like and and others offered as part of promotional contests.
10| Developers at found that without any changes to their code, loaded four times faster on Xbox Series X than Xbox One X due to the higher throughput on memory and storage, and would be able to increase this further once they incorporated the new DirectStorage API routines | Amazon is not an Xbox All Access participating retailer for Xbox Series X S |
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| from the original on November 2, 2020 | Microsoft developed FPS Boost after finding that for many backward compatible games, the CPU and GPU on the newer consoles frequently entered their idle states even with the other enhancements in place, and sought ways to use the unused processing cycles to further enhance the older games' performances |
| 1 output, the storage expansion slot, three ports, and an | Use with digital games only; console does not play physical discs |
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| from the original on September 26, 2020 | They were both released on November 10, 2020 as the fourth generation of the console family, succeeding the family |
Like the Series X, the front of the Series S features one USB port and a controller pairing button with an integrated IR receiver.