" Backwards compatible games run natively on the Xbox Series X hardware, running with the full power of the CPU, GPU and the SSD. No boost mode"

Whats the difference between running natively and boost mode?

I see, thanks for the detailed response!

I'm curious to see how this will compare to sonys approach and whether it will make a meaningful difference to the quality of BC between the 2 systems.

I can understand that people want it, but it's not something MS should be hanging their hat on. The whole world knows by now that it has BC, but they keep repeating it and making it sound like Smart Delivery and BC are their main selling points.

We need to see them Series X exclusives with never-before-seen eyeball melting graphics. If they don't have that during their July showcase, it's going to be a bad look for them. Especially when they're calling Series X the most powerful console and Sony is the one that ends up wow'ing everybody when they showcase true next games during their reveal.

He also gave the average playtime on BC and it was very small.

Still using the BC and buying because of BC are different things. A lot of us use the console for Netflix, Prime, Crunchyroll, etc but I doubt any of us bought the console because of it.

The reason why we keep claiming it is because of data. Full BC with PS1 and PS2 was available on PS3 launch and didn't really help the sales, pricecut did even if they had to take out the BC. PS4 didn't had any and broke all records (even from PS2 that had BC), X1 didn't had acceleration in sales when BC released. Switch doesn't have BC and still sold record breaking numbers. There isn't a single iota of evidence that would prove BC improve sales.

So it is a nice feature but don't bring that many new sales, and since both consoles will have it that won't really be much of a differentiator.

From all they said and their algorithm for me is clear that all titles may have better pixel count and framerate even if the dev doesn't do any patch.

4k is like four times the resolution of 1080p. Older titles should be easily be able to be emulated to 4k from 720p (360 era) one I would hope.

1080p to 4K is doubling each axis
720p to 4K is tripling each axis

Hence 720p looks better on a 4K tv than on a 1080p tv (where every 2 pixels become 3)
Doubling 720p to 1440p to then upscale to 4K will look worse. (double then scale every 2 pixels to 3 again)

Of course all it does is get cleaner lines and sharper textures in the distance. Detail is still made for 720p and 1080p. Same with adding HDR, higher contrast range but you won't get more detail in the bright and dark areas.

It will look better than having the TV do the upscale and adding HDR yet results will vary greatly by game. PC has the options to increase detail levels and effects, BC doesn't have those options or very limited unless the game is remastered.

The biggest improvement will come from higher, stable fps.

It all depends on the quality of their algorithm and they keep improving it, but it should be something that applies to all games even if devs don't do any patch. There is good stuff to be expected from it. And sure some devs had even at the time made better assets than what they put in the game due to optmization so they can make those available as well.

@SvennoJ I'm talking full 4k internal resolution across the board for legacy titles, which shouldn't be too hard for next gen consoles. Especially for the disparity in hardware between the Series X > 360 for emulation.

Going to kindly disagree. Games will just look better all around even with just a resolution boost. Try playing any older legacy games on modern hardware, the boost in image quality means that even though textures are the same, but you can see more detail as there is more detail per pixels on screen. I've been playing on PC's for a long time and with emulators. Games running at higher resolutions native to display always looks better. Just look at he amount of remasters this generation.

I just hate to run anything 720p on my monitor or TV's it just looks like vaseline mess. Even running my base PS4 on my monitor leaves much to be desired.

Well that's a fine how-do-you-do.