I re-started to play Odyssey a week ago :) I'm really hyped for Valhalla and this is going to look gorgeous in my living room on Xbox One Series X and my 86'' 4K :)

Cannot wait for July and all the reveals around Xbox and Ubi! 

On the other hand, I'm def. losing faith in an Xbox One Series S (or whatever the name); I think that with the rumors that Microsoft is going to align themselves to the Play Station Five; this makes little sense. If they come out with a more powerful console at the same price, this can be enough for them to even try to lover the price even further to try to win some market share very early in the next gen.

Can I ask what model TV you have? That sounds epic.

You're never going to see a mind blowing upgrade on a cross-gen game, a game has to be built from the ground up for a next-gen system to truly offer a mind blowing upgrade. I'm just glad that it's a bigger leap than we saw over Ubisoft's cross-gen games at the start of this gen like AC4 and Far Cry 4 on XB1 and PS4. Those honestly offered pretty minor graphical improvements.  

I just remembered that Ubisoft did announce ray tracing for Watch Dogs Legion, their other big cross-gen game releasing this year, so it wouldn't surprise me if AC Valhalla does have ray tracing as well. 

Well, each generation does seem to offer smaller upgrades than the last. Technological improvements seem to be slowing, and on top of that the closer you get to realism, the smaller improvements look. I think over the last 7 years we've seen barely over a 2x improvement in gaming performance on CPU's, at least on Intel CPU's. AMD has had bigger CPU gains, but that is because they were farther behind to start with. PC GPU gains over the last 7 years have been more impressive, about 4 or 5x I think. But overall improvements have been smaller than they have been in the past.

That being said, I am fairly impressed by the leaps we're seeing on Series X vs XB1/PS4. I think we're looking at like a 4X CPU improvement and probably 7x GPU improvement over PS4, even bigger compared to XB1. MS clearly went all out on Series X. I think we'll be pleasantly surprised by true next-gen graphics, at least if that Hellblade 2 trailer was any indication of what to expect. 

You're never going to see a mind blowing upgrade on a cross-gen game, a game has to be built from the ground up for a next-gen system to truly offer a mind blowing upgrade. I'm just glad that it's a bigger leap than we saw over Ubisoft's cross-gen games at the start of this gen like AC4 and Far Cry 4 on XB1 and PS4. Those honestly offered pretty minor graphical improvements. 

I just remembered that Ubisoft did announce ray tracing for Watch Dogs Legion, their other big cross-gen game releasing this year, so it wouldn't surprise me if AC Valhalla does have ray tracing as well. 

Well, each generation does seem to offer smaller upgrades than the last. Technological improvements seem to be slowing, and on top of that the closer you get to realism, the smaller improvements look. I think over the last 7 years we've seen barely over a 2x improvement in gaming performance on CPU's, at least on Intel CPU's. AMD has had bigger CPU gains, but that is because they were farther behind to start with. PC GPU gains over the last 7 years have been more impressive, about 4 or 5x I think. But overall improvements have been smaller than they have been in the past.

That being said, I am fairly impressed by the leaps we're seeing on Series X vs XB1/PS4. I think we're looking at like a 4X CPU improvement and probably 7x GPU improvement over PS4, even bigger compared to XB1. MS clearly went all out on Series X. I think we'll be pleasantly surprised by true next-gen graphics, at least if that Hellblade 2 trailer was any indication of what to expect. 

https://www.gematsu.com/2020/05/former-respawn-entertainment-developers-establish-aaa-game-development-studio-gravity-well

Could be a good acquisition target for MS in the future. Former Respawn devs who worked on Titanfall and Apex. They are hiring AAA talent, but plan to stay AA size, less than 100 devs.