Video: Here's What Happens When You Turn On The Xbox Series X

I love that bootup sound

I miss the original xbox startup

Ia it November 10th yet? I need my X.

The boot splashscreen animation is pretty surreal but the hardware devs have told it’s difficult to play animation as the SSD boot happens really fast.

@LX_FENIX you can still see it when you boot up an original Xbox title. Forgot how cool it was until i played Panzer Dragoon yesterday.

I love it, Can't wait for Nov 10th.

Really getting PS1 start up vibes. I love it.

That was really really fast

Wouldn't it be nice to have the option to boot a specific generation sound, even if it was the same animation? (Or random Xb, xv360, xb1, xsx)

An original Xbox One? The xbox one x is painfully long as it is!

Aww, why can't Microsoft surprise us on launch day by making sure we see nothing at all of the console beforehand?

@AJDarkstar what feature set? It will but it depends what features you require. No hdmi 2.1 switch exists yet.

@AJDarkstar x1x works fine with 18gb 4k60 switches, though there are many of those that play lose with the specs and don't really work as advertised.

I've definitely had one or two that claim to be 4k60 but as soon as i put 4k60 through them it all falls apart. I have several others, 2 matrix and one 1x4 that work fine, though it took some work getting everything working, it didn't have anything to do with x1x as the source of the problem. (One was too long a cable run even with a repeater in the path, one big one was turning off amd freesync on the X. My display supports it, but only one hdmi switch I've found actually works with it on, and that one didn't have optical oudio breakout that i need for my headphone rig... All other switches and splitters I've tried bomb out with freesync enabled with my ffxv test. Black screen when it goes to 40fps.

But with the right cable lengths to spec (no more than 20ft between repeaters for 4k60HDR10!), freesync OFF, Switches that really do work with 4k60HDR (my first set didn't, even with ps4 pro. Just because random Chinese mfrs say something works, doesnt mean it actually does... Who knew? )

Ps4 pro is actually the harder box to please. Sony has infamously low voltage HDMI outputs on all their devices for some reason and it tends to mess with switches.

The one "issue" with x1x is auto detecting switches. The one that didn't do 4k60 as advertised DID auto switch with 1x. The one that does work with 4k60 that I'm currently using doesn't auto switch with 1x. i have to use the remote or physical button, because in sleep mode, x1x still outputs hdmi voltage and that particular switch reads the voltage as enough to indicate the device was never in an off state. I'm betting it behaves that way to accommodate ps4 pro, in fact. Or auto switches Switch and ps4 pro, but not X unless i use power save mode that does cut the voltage. That behavior varies by switch though... The old one auto switched fine with it. It just doesn't work with 4k60 despite 4k60 being printed on the unit

Yeah, i hate hdmi, too... It's a total mess

But anyway, yeah 1x works as well as anything else through switches and splitters. It's no more finicky than other devices that I've seen. Series S&x1s aren't going to be nearly as picky just because they're not coming close to saturating the bandwidth of hdmi2 let alone 2.1. you can play loser with longer cable runs and iffier connections with lower res content.

If you get an XSeX and are having trouble with your HDMI signal chain, hit me up. Assuming my preorders don't get cancelled, I'll have already been working on troubleshooting the same things and can probably help with probable causes of issues.... Or, knock wood, I'll just be pulling the cables out of x1x, plopping XSeX into it's place and it'll run without a hitch. My chain is complex involving 2 consoles into identical switches on opposite sides of the room, then both into a 4x2 matrix, one a 40ft run through a repeater, into that matrix, I've then one of the two into a splitter/audio breakout.... Currently using a different 4x2 matrix i had around for that.

If it works in that mess of a setup, it'll work for anyone!

@AJDarkstar I dunno, either something is odd about the Switches you're reading reviews for, or there's something odd about the people writing Amazon reviews. Or they're Sony fans who find it amusing to bash XBox on HDMI switch review pages. Which common sense says shouldn't ever really exist, but there are those loyalists that wouldn't even surprise me (I'm making that last part up....kinda....)

I haven't encountered anything odd about X1X and switches at all. I have encountered odd things with all Sony consoles (and BD players) and switches (going back to PS3) because of the low voltage, over longer runs it can lose EDID and I had to get an box that forces the EDID near the display side back in the 1080p days for PS.

The only caveats were the switch I got when I got the X1X that worked fine, and auto switching worked fine with it, until I got a 4k display and the thing couldn't keep video connection with either 4Pro or 1X; and the other being the new auto switch I got that otherwise works fine, not working with auto-switch, I have to use it as a manual switch for X1X. But that switch at 4k60, the 2 matrix switches (and 2 splitters) at 4k 60 (no auto, all manual for those), and one old switch that worked at 1080 but not 4k despite being advertised as 4k, all had no problem with X1X.

If there's anything "odd" about how the X1X is designed it's that in quick start/rest mode it still keeps voltage on the HDMI that some switches like mine detect as continued connection. Thus the auto-switch that relies on detecting a new device on a port where there was no power before and now is doesn't work because it thinks the device is always on, it always sees power on the wire. But that's the only "oddity" about X1X and switches. SOME switches (maybe most?) won't use auto-switch correctly with it (and some will.)

Other than that, I think those Amzon reviewers, or the products they're reviewing are not quite right

The only other possibility is they're enabling Freesync/"Variable refresh" on the XBox and TV. If you do that, yeah, you're going to have a bad time. Seemingly almost no switches support Freesync. (Note that X1X and Series X support AMD Freesync. Series X also supports VRR, a new HDMI standard variable refresh that requires HDMI 2.1 - for which no switch exists yet. Best to disable ALL variable refresh tech on the xbox and/or the TV with the X!!) In my case, yeah, if I enable variable refresh on X1X, and if I enable it on my display that supports Freesync, it works fine connected directly, it works fine connected through ONE switch that advertised support for it, and doesn't work through any other switch or splitter I tried, even ones that advertise VRR.

Any good 4k60 18GB/s switch, Freesync/VRR DISABLED, and probably manual switch mode on the switch, you should be good with X1X and XSeX. No idea what those reviews are talking about....

Now I've only tested HDR10, not Dolby Vision, so that's one other potential source of issues. There are switches that advertise DolbyVision support, many that claim to have issues with Dolby Vision..... That's one area I can't comment much on. HDR10 I can confirm, but it sounds like DV has some very gray area in terms of switches supporting it well (or at all), or at 60fps.

And, yeah, the advertising on these things is a total mess, and they all play loose with the spec. Truthfully you usually end up having to buy more than one switch to find one that does what it is supposed to do. That's nothing to do with X1X. That has only to do with these generic, poorly translated, fly -by-night Chinese manufacturers, most of which appear and are gone within months.

TBH going from Xbox 1S to Xbox 1X I've already been impressed by home screen load time from cold boot.

I do like the start up sound. Very Hans Zimmer. Orchestral and cinematic. Suggests a lot of ambition to make this gen jaw droppingly awesome.

@Menchi I picked up a SSD for my one x and to be fair the load times are a lot faster than using the built in HDD or external one. Cut my load times down by half on most games.

@AJDarkstar Yeah, PS issues with HDMI outs tend to crop up more on longer cable runs. It's a known thing with all Sony hardware, not just Playstations. Not sure why, but they universally have a low voltage output.

But yeah, I still have no idea what those reviews were talking about with 1X. There's definitely nothing unique or peculiar about 1X's HDMI out, it's a perfectly standard device. I suspect some kind of settings mismatch (or something involving long cable runs) was to blame in their cases. I don't think you should have any issues with XSeX....or X1X for that matter.

@AJDarkstar Yeah, older switches (even some that say they're 4k60, grrr) will be problematic. 4k is also just mroe problematic because it takes considerably more bandwidth, so any connection or interface that was dodgy before may have still worked....but once you shove higher bandwidth through, any flaw in the chain (or cables, etc) will show its head.

If you're already doing 4k BD out of the S, I definitely think you're probably all set already!

I definitely wouldn't worry about it. There's no existing problem with the 1X as far as I can tell, and I certainly doubt there is one with XSeX.

I like that! Looks to be way better then Xbox One X.

Like The Morning Sun Greeting Me.