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(Slightly) Early Access: The Original Xbox One Re-Tested: Can Microsoft's Weakest Console Keep Up With The Latest Games? (Patreon)

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2022-05-25 10:26:30
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2022-07

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This one goes up later today but Patrons can watch now. The Xbox One S replaced the original hulking Xbox One set-top box design back in 2016 with improved silicon, a slightly overclocked GPU and a far superior design - but where does that leave the original 'Durango' model console when playing the latest cross-gen games? Oliver Mackenzie finds out.

Downloads: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/2022-05-25-the-original-xbox-one-re-tested-can-microsofts-weakest-console-keep-up-with-the-latest-games

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The Original Xbox One Re-Tested: Can Microsoft's Weakest Console Keep Up With The Latest Games?

The Xbox One S replaced the original hulking Xbox One set-top box design back in 2016 with improved silicon, a slightly overclocked GPU and a far superior design - but where does that leave the original 'Durango' model console when playing the latest cross-gen games? Oliver Mackenzie finds out. Join the DF Patreon for pristine video downloads, behind the scenes content, early access to DF Retro, early access to DF Direct Weekly and much, much more: https://bit.ly/3jEGjvx Subscribe for more Digital Foundry: http://bit.ly/DFSubscribe Want some DF-branded tee-shirts, mugs, hoodies or pullovers? Check out our store: https://bit.ly/2BqRTt0 00:00:00 Revisiting the original Xbox One 00:03:31 Cyberpunk 2077, COD Vanguard, Battlefield 2042 00:07:58 Elden Ring, Tales of Arise 00:11:25 Grid Legends, Forza Horizon 5 00:15:06 One vs One S: loading times and Performance 00:18:11 Final verdict: is the original Xbox One holding up?

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Anonymous

I'm impressed, that was a very in-depth and coherent video. Great job Oliver!

Anonymous

Thank you Oliver, I was looking forward for this video. I still have mine on which I played Tales of Arise on to see how it feels compared to its Xbox Series counterpart. It felt 30fps most of the time, but to be honest, I didn't notice it was on uncapped framerate ! I'll be sure to keep my eyes open next time I play around with it. As for its form factor, while my only regret is the fact that Msft kept the external power brick, I don't regret buying it one bit. Most of its life, it was so silent ! So silent that I could hear its hard drive. (Compare that to Xbox 360 jet fans, it's night and day) And hearing its HDD did piss me off in the long term, that's why I replaced it by a 500GB SSD when I finally migrated to a more powerful console. Most of my games were already on an external ssd, but well, quality of life on the UI was something we lost on the dashboard with so many updates. The original dashboard was so snappy. So an internal SSD helped to relive a bit of this early dashboard snappiness. Anyway, seeing the loading times, I think the base Xbox One is entering in some sort of similar phase like the ps3 did with its original HDD and some games like Rage and Skyrim. I'm still curious to see how Cyberpunk would work on my Xbox One with this internal SSD. Maybe one day, if I find it at decent price on retail.

Anonymous

Very curious as to why there's such a big difference in loading times between the two consoles, especially since CPU clocks are the same.

Anonymous
>>84538229

Probably related to HDD's age and wear. And maybe One S Cpu is more efficient since it's on 16nm. A good test would be to try with an external usb drive on both.