Xbox Series X review - is it still worth buying in 2024?

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This is a subscription-based library of games accessible for Xbox users, which works a lot like Netflix but with games not films. In terms of pricing, this is an additional subscription fee to pay, either annually or monthly, on top of buying the console itself. But, it does allow access to the hundreds of games, which span many years and genres, with new and popular titles featured alongside older titles that have been optimized for Xbox players.

The controller is less curved and looks slightly more blocky. With that being said, the buttons, triggers and joysticks have not been moved or altered in a noticeable way, making it easy to slip back into gameplay without having to familiarize yourself with a new controller. The redesign feels discreet enough to match the aesthetic of the new generation, without changing the player’s relationship with the iconic controller.

In terms of older titles on Xbox Game Pass, I decided to revisit the nostalgia of the 2000s with some Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, a game I owned when I had an Xbox 360. Aside from the nice throwback to the Xbox 360 launching animation, Banjo-Kazooie has experienced several optimizations which allow for smoother frame-rates, overall faster running and loading speeds and higher quality graphics, that make it feel more like a title from the last decade, than a game from 2008.

When running Starfield on the Series X, we tested its framerate at 4K graphics. During open-world exploration, the graphics remained fairly consistent without any display faults, lag or screen tearing, that I noticed, and the framerate remained consistently around the 30fps mark, occasionally dropping to 28fps during combat or in graphically “busy” areas, i.e around fire or smoke.

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