Video: This Is How Quickly The Xbox 360 Emulator Loads On Xbox Series X

Well, my backlog will load faster. Maybe I can finally work through it.

Gotta give credit to Microsoft’s transparency for sending prototype consoles to random people without any major “controlled environment” restrictions.

Is it the same on Series S? I hope so!

@StrangeBit They have the same ssd speed and almost identical cpu speed so it should be the same

@experTiger great, thank you!

The loading screen is barely visible on Series X, the rest of the time is because of the Xbox 360 animation. Zero loading time.

Give me all the backwards compat news directly into my veins, please and thank you.

Wow that’s fast. As someone who only uses a one s for backward compatibility, when I do eventually get a series x, this will be a great feature for me.

Whilst these videos are interesting, do people really mind that much about the initial loading times.

Take Red Dead Redemption 2, ok it’s over 1 min 36 seconds starting up on XBOX ONE X, compared to 36 seconds on Series X, but spending £450 on a new console needs to do more than this?

@Luigia These are just examples of what the SSD can do, and usually launch or initial loads are the longest load times, so they show things in a much more observable way.

Spending less time zoning, doing quick travel, respawning on a hard game, all this stuff adds up a LOT.

That aside, obviously no one is spending £450 just for fast loads. This console is ridiculously powerful even if you ignore the impact of fast loading.

@Luigia Red Dead Redemption 2 is not optimised for Series X/S yet, otherwise it would load even faster. I don't know anybody that thinks that loading times is the only improvement on Series X/S. Even backwards compatible games are improved on Series X/S, some of them will have double frame rate and all of them better performance, Auto HDR, better texture filtering and higher resolution, e.g., Xbox 360 games are 720p on Xbox One S and 1440p on Series S.

@BlueOcean good observations @tharsman

@Luigia No problem.

@Luigia I do got to add, I was playing Assassins Creed Brotherhood a couple days ago, trying to get this one mission 100% and constantly failing at the start (the one where you cant be hit once, near the start, jumped by a bunch of wolf dudes, done it before but SO rusty) and every reload made me wish I was already on an XSX.

As someone that attempts to 100% specific game series (not everything) I look forward to reloads to be drastically cut down.

@Tharsman I feel your pain and hope Microsoft can gift you a Series X, to ease your loading pains 😀👍🏻

@Luigia What about boosts to frame rates and resolution - some even beyond what the capped limit was. What about auto HDR? What about improved Anisotropic Filtering - making textures look much better and cleaner at angles instead of a blurry mess? All those are 'built' in improvements from the start just by being a much more powerful system and MS's 'work' on Backwards Compatibility. There are some games that offer 4k on Xbox One X which were obviously only 720p on Xbox 360 and MS are looking to bring 'higher' frame rates too so a capped 30fps game could run at 60fps instead without needing a Developer to patch in a new, higher frame rate cap.

These are ALL improvements, beyond just playing the same games at the exact same level as if you were playing them on the original hardware. Believe it or not, a LOT of games were not 'locked' to 30 or 60fps but now play so smoothly thanks to the extra power in modern consoles. The XB1X has 12x Anisotropic Filtering built in and Series S/X adds HDR to certain titles that it works well on too.

If you look at XB1 games, a LOT use Dynamic Resolution scaling as well as unlocked frame rates. What this means is that the resolution drops or in some cases, never really runs at the 'full' resolution. It may be considered a 1080/2160p game but the reality maybe it spends the vast majority of the game at 720-900p or 1440-1800p but with the Series S/X, it will run consistently at the highest level. its the same with games that say 30/60fps but rarely hit that level - especially in high action areas when you need that frame rate the most - and now it will.

You are not paying £450 to do all this, this is just 1 part of what it offers. You are also paying £450 for years ahead of 'new' games too that are 'built' to use the full features of the Console. You will also get numerous 'Free' upgrades on existing XB1 games too - Gears 5, Forza Horizon 4 etc - offering graphical upgrades and double the frame rate far in excess of what BC can offer - like a 'free' remastered version.

BC is a 'part' of the package and it offers a lot more than just quicker loading times...

@Luigia the backwards compat is just a benefit of owning a nextgen console. The other I'm looking forward to is the quick resume function. First and foremost is the games. But having these benefits helps fill in the time, inbetween the releases.

@Luigia I just hope i can walk into a store and buy one on launch day, because I want to play Valhalla and refuse to play it on anything but a Series X.

@BAMozzy you’ve sold it to me 👍🏻

I just hope they bring new BC games!!! I'll buy anything XD

Talk about fast load times. totally looking forward to this.