Digital Foundry carried out New tests on Xbox One, to see if Microsoft’s weakest console is still – years later – allowing fans to play modern games. As always, he also shared a special video, which you can find below.
Xbox One (Not the One S, mind the difference) It was released in 2013 and officially supports even the latest games like Elden Ring, Cyberpunk 2077 and Battlefield 2042, which struggle to sustain adequate performance even on platforms like PS5 and Xbox Series X. .
According to Digital Foundry, the original Xbox One could practically deliver two types of results: some games are perfectly fine with some minor limitations, while others suffer greatly from the console’s limited power and fail to meet their performance targets.
for example, with Forza Horizon 5 and Grid Legends There are some issues, but the two driving games provide good framerate even at high speed. Obviously the resolution and FPS are not on par with the latest Microsoft consoles, but you can’t complain.
However, there are games in which it is. frame rate very low even in scenes that aren’t very challenging with regular stutters. Examples include Cyberpunk 2077, Call of Duty Vanguard, Battlefield 2042, Elden Ring, and Tales of Arise.
Obviously, judgments were given after realizing the gods Comparisons to Xbox One SIt can count on 7.1% higher power. The latest console may suggest more, between two and four frames, in the example reported with Tales of Arise. Games such as Elden Ring and Cyberpunk 2077 do not show any noticeable improvement. In short, if a game supports dynamic resolution, the framerate between the two consoles is the same.
when it comes downloadsOn average, the Xbox One is very slow, and the Xbox One S can improve times by up to 35% (Forza Horizon 5). However, there are games with minor differences, such as The Ascent, which went from 162.7 seconds to 160.0 seconds, or Cyberpunk, which increased from 50.0 seconds to 49.2 seconds. However, in this case, Digital Foundry states that some of the difference may be related to the long years of use of the console used as a test on its shoulders.
It is then pointed out that switch to intergenerational gamesPrimarily PS5 and Xbox Series X | The Xbox One designed for S is in trouble. For example, Call of Duty Vanguard performs significantly worse than Call of Duty Modern Warfare on Xbox One despite being only a year away. Battlefield 2042 also offers worse performance than Battlefield 5. The Xbox One may have become a “second-class citizen” by now, and developers are less optimizing games for this type of hardware, especially considering it’s selling less than its PS4 rival.
Finally, the Digital Foundry says that the best solution for Xbox One gamers right now is to opt for the Xbox Series S, which is inexpensive and lets you play cross-gen games at higher quality, if not maximally.
Source: Multiplayer
