30 Games to be Fully Optimized for Xbox Series X and S at Launch - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 15 October 2020 / 1,633 Views
Microsoft has announced 30 games will be fully optimized for the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S when the consoles launch on November 10. 20 of the games will feature Smart Delivery that will be upgraded automatically for free from the Xbox One versions.
The list of games includes Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, Watch Dogs: Legion, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Gears Tactics, and Tetris Effect: Connected. Other games optimized for the next-generation consoles after launch includes all of Duty: Black Ops Cold War launching November 13, Cyberpunk 2077 launching November 17, and Xbox console launch exclusive The Medium on December 10.
Here is the full list of titles for launch:
- Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (Smart Delivery)
- Borderlands 3 (Smart Delivery)
- Bright Memory 1.0
- Cuisine Royale (Smart Delivery)
- Dead by Daylight (Xbox Game Pass + Smart Delivery)
- Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition
- DIRT 5 (Smart Delivery)
- Enlisted
- Evergate
- The Falconeer (Smart Delivery)
- Fortnite
- Forza Horizon 4 (Xbox Game Pass + Smart Delivery)
- Gears 5 (Xbox Game Pass + Smart Delivery)
- Gears Tactics (Xbox Game Pass + Smart Delivery)
- Grounded (Xbox Game Pass + Smart Delivery)
- King Oddball (Smart Delivery)
- Maneater (Smart Delivery)
- Manifold Garden (Smart Delivery)
- NBA 2K21
- Observer: System Redux
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Xbox Game Pass + Smart Delivery)
- Planet Coaster (Smart Delivery)
- Sea of Thieves (Xbox Game Pass + Smart Delivery)
- Tetris Effect: Connected (Xbox Game Pass + Smart Delivery)
- The Touryst (Xbox Game Pass + Smart Delivery)
- War Thunder (Smart Delivery)
- Warhammer: Chaosbane Slayer Edition
- Watch Dogs: Legion (Smart Delivery)
- WRC 9 FIA World Rally Championship (Smart Delivery)
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon (Smart Delivery)
- Yes, Your Grace (Smart Delivery)
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Slim list, but well it is gen start so that happens.
Technically most of those games are crossgen and a lot of them aren't even optimized for Series X. There is a very big number of old games in this list as well, so that is only buffing the count.
Well I am curious to see what games will also have significant enhancments via BC. Series consoles will apparently boost resolutions and frame rates in select titles. We already saw Fallout 4 is doing 60 fps. Info like that could bolster the list of games being enhanced.
Yes I know it will receive upgrades. But to count those as new titles is just a list buffing. If Sony have made patches for 100 games for PS5 would you count all of those as new titles?
The line seems blurry to me. Some of this content could simply be patched.
That is the definition of Smart Delivery, when your current gen game gets a patch for next gen console for free.
I believe Smart Delivery was sold as buying a game once for both 8th and 9th gen ports.
Here's a question I have. Will a game like Gears 5 have sepatrate downloads for 8th and 9th gen versions? If so, that would suggest a port was actually made for next gen.
there is a base game that exits on Xbox one s and one x and there will be patches exclusively designed for series S and X. what smart delivery dose it's that if you have the data for Xbox one game you don't need to download the whole game again for next gen, you just need to download the patch.
Please guys just read the news!
"Microsoft has announced 30 games will be fully optimized for the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S"
What does gamepass+smart delivery mean? I hope u don't need gamepass for gears as I already own the disc
It means the game is available on gamepass, and smart delivery applies. If you bought the game, it will still get smart delivery.
