When Microsoft presented its new generation of consoles and showed two different models, many thought they had gone crazy, but it turns out that the move is going great for them: between its digital-only conception aimed at seducing us with Game Pass and its ability to play games new generation, many gamers are choosing to buy it while they think about whether to take the leap to PS5 or an Xbox Series X.
A little more power?
The point is that Microsoft has heard the prayers of some developers They have been insisting to those from Redmond for months that they should allow them to have more resources on hand to better optimize the games they launch on those Xbox Series S that the North Americans sell us, and that they are perfect for playing on screens with a maximum of 1.440p. resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate.
The problem is that today there are not many (not to say almost none) that meet these figures, so pretty much everything that comes to the console is played in a world and lirondo 1080p. So, what is going to happen next so that the tortilla is turned around and we have better games in the most modest next-gen from Microsoft?
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What Microsoft is going to allow, and which it announced in one of its latest videos aimed at developers, is free up more memory so that the console can perform many more tasks of optimization and increase of quality of the graphic aspect of the games that we install in it. And not only in terms of resolution or frame rate per second, but also in the rendering of what appears on the screen (textures, effects, etc.).
As you can see from the video that we leave you above, it can be seen that developers optimizing their games for Xbox Series S will have at their disposal “hundreds of extra megabytes memory”, which gives them “more control over memory, which can improve graphics performance in limited memory conditions”.
You must bear in mind that Xbox Series S has 10GB of RAM, of which two are only dedicated to the operating system, so eight left for everything else. Exactly half of what Xbox Series X uses to offer greater performance, so no matter how small that increase is, a slight difference can be noticed that will benefit the general quality of everything we put into operation with the machine.
At the moment this announcement is in the hands of the developers, who are looking at where they can play a little more to gain that little extra power and graphic quality for, when everything is well tested, bring them to all consoles thanks to a future update. So it's time to wait but remember, your Xbox Series S will be a little more powerful without changing anything inside.
And that is great news. Don't you think?