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0:00:00 Introduction
0:00:43 Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X
0:15:51 Xbox full-screen experience on Windows 11
0:30:19 Final Fantasy 16 shadowdropped on Xbox - and we've tested it!
0:39:35 Ninja Gaiden 4
0:44:40 Persona 4 Revival
0:52:12 Beast of Reincarnation
0:56:46 Call of Duty: Black Ops 7
1:04:13 2026 teases: Fable, Forza, Gears of War - and Halo?
1:09:02 Thoughts on the showcase

 

[sendit]

 

[Ev1L AuRoN]

I was fully expecting FF XVI to be better on Xbox, being release later, and that game looks like a good match to the wide compute SoC on series consoles. Bad port, perhaps, it looks dreadful on series s.

 

[LordCBH]

Looks like they opted for a quick and very dirty port of 16. Shame. Would've liked to have seen them make some improvements that they potentially could've back fed to previously released versions of 16.

 

[Sebastian1295]

I was fully expecting FF XVI to be better on Xbox, being release later, and that game looks like a good match to the wide compute SoC on series consoles. Bad port, perhaps, it looks dreadful on series s.

The series S lack of ram bottlenecked the console this entire generation.

 

[Skifi28]

Oliver seems to have only tested the first couple of sections where performance is relatively ok. It shits the bed once you reach the "open" world so it would be interesting to see if it holds there.

 

[adamsapple]

RE FFXVI:

So they took the combat resolution of the PS5 version and applied it everywhere on SX in the Performance mode. Locked 60 but 720p.

Bad trade off IMO, hopefully a patch fixes this soon. SX's VRR should be sufficient for 1080p even if it has the exact same drops as the PS5 version.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Oliver there doesn't have much faith in Microsoft doing to the ROG Ally what Valve did with Steamdeck.

 

[squidilix]

12Tf FULLL POWWAAAAAAAAAA

And locked 720p Performance mode... LMAO, unlike the PS5.

 

[Killer8]

Holy kek. Guess Square Enix didn't get "the tools" Riky promised.

 

[ReasonBeing]

You would think SE would want to put out a compelling product to make the most of the 30 something million Series owners. This doesn't look like this is it.

I enjoyed the show, but MS really needs to hammer down their messaging for what's next for the brand. Yes, they are showing us stuff, but there are still so many unanswered questions for people who have stuck around in the Xbox ecosystem. Not everything should be a surprise, and this is especially true when their is broad pessimism surrounding the brand. I guess this assumes they even know what that future is.

They need to paint a picture of their future and not only meet those expectations, but exceed them.

 

[mayham2199]

Lol MS didn't allow anyone to ask questions about the Ally. Love the faith they have in the product.

 

[DanielG165]

Horrible Xbox port for FFXVI. The Series S is one thing, but no reason for the Series X to be outputting 720p in performance other than lack of effort. An update/patch is needed and deserved for those who wanted to play the game on this specific platform.

 

[DanielG165]

Lol MS didn't allow anyone to ask questions about the Ally. Love the faith they have in the product.

Because it comes out in the holiday season. I expect a lot more in-depth coverage to happen over the next few months. Nothing to do with "faith", we've seen how much confidence they have in it by how much they're pushing it online after the showcase, and how they allowed big tech creators to cover it literally before the show was over.

 

[viveks86]

What the hell is that FF 16 port?! No wonder they shadow dropped it. Looks like they estimated sales to be so low that they did not even bother doing an optimization pass.

This gives me zero hope that they would do an actual pro update. Guess I'll just brute force it on PS6 when I finally get around to it.

 

[GHG]

12Tf FULLL POWWAAAAAAAAAA

And locked 720p Performance mode... LMAO, unlike the PS5.

Don't worry everyone, VRR will fix it.

 

[cireza]

Thanks to the demo, I have no doubt that FF XVI sucks just as much as expected, in every possible aspect.

Bought Stranger of Paradise in the current sale, completed the first castle : having a total blast.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Don't worry everyone, VRR will fix it.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Lol MS didn't allow anyone to ask questions about the Ally. Love the faith they have in the product.

It's them controlling the initial narrative they set.

 

[SKYF@ll]

Is VRS the reason why the Xbox Series X version looks weird and low-res in graphics mode?
Textures are blurry and some objects look like they're in 360p.
The graphics mode (30fps) needs a lot of improvement.

 

[GHG]

Bought Stranger of Paradise in the current sale, completed the first castle : having a total blast.

Stranger of paradise is fantastic, you'll have a blast.

 

[SomeGit]

Seems like DRS is very aggressive on the Xbox port, while not agressive enough in the ps5 version.

 

[damidu]

oh god! ff16 on series s should be a treat for the eyes, any pics from that? lol

 

[SuperC]

Don't worry everyone, VRR will fix it.

I wonder if it can fix PS5 VRR Stutter

 

[Mr Moose]

I wonder if it can fix PS5 VRR Stutter

 

[Topher]

The really don't like this "Xbox" handheld strategy, do they? lol

 

[adamsapple]

The really don't like this "Xbox" handheld strategy, do they? lol

They also said in a separate video they have various problems with Switch 2 which they'll talk about in detail later.

They don't seem to be much fans of handheld devices that aren't Steam Decks

 

[Topher]

They also said in a separate video they have various problems with Switch 2 which they'll talk about in detail later.

They don't seem to be much fans of handheld devices that aren't Steam Decks

Well.....Steam Deck is about as straight forward as they come. Lacks any of the Nintenodo or Microsoft bullshit really.

 

[majestix1988]

cursed parity clause in performance mode due S version

 

[ReasonBeing]

I wonder if it can fix PS5 VRR Stutter

Sony patched this issue recently

 

[viveks86]

I wonder if it can fix PS5 VRR Stutter

Would have been a cool "Touché"... if this exchange happened a week ago. Sorry!

 

[FrankWza]

The series S lack of ram bottlenecked the console this entire generation.

The wukong devs pulled off a miracle and somehow it only took them an extra year.

 

[SKYF@ll]

I installed FF16 (XSX version) and compared it to the PS5 version, and the XSX version looks broken.
In Frame rate Mode, the frame rate(XSX) is 10 fps higher than the PS5 version, so it makes sense that the resolution (XSX version) was lowered.
The Graphic Mode is locked at 30fps on both, so I don't understand why the image quality is so bad on the XSX version.
Here are my screenshots. (PNG)

Frame-rate Mode

Graphic Mode

 

[Horseganador]

The FFXVI port on Xbox is horrible, the image quality is much worse than on PS5.

 

[Astray]

Oliver burying the lede here.

What is the Series S gonna do with this game if the XSX port is this bad?

 

[Darsxx82]

I installed FF16 (XSX version) and compared it to the PS5 version, and the XSX version looks broken.
In Frame rate Mode, the frame rate(XSX) is 10 fps higher than the PS5 version, so it makes sense that the resolution (XSX version) was lowered.
The Graphic Mode is locked at 30fps on both, so I don't understand why the image quality is so bad on the XSX version.
Here are my screenshots. (PNG)

Frame-rate Mode

Graphic Mode

Look like the typical "push one button port and go home" that Square usually do.

PS. Almost as bad as the PC port.

 

[Fake]

Oliver take on Persona 4 Remake was trash. Jez, please never talk about this again in your life.

 

[emivita]

How about a PS5 Pro patch, Square-fuckers? FFVII Remake too.

Hopefully MS and Nintendo paid for these shitty ports, because it's such a waste of development resources.

 

[SuperC]

Sony patched this issue recently

They calim they did, until someone test that we still dont know

 

[Fake]

They calim they did, until someone test that we still dont know

DF already test. Rich tested for about 11 hours and no sight of stutter.

 

[DeepEnigma]

They calim they did, until someone test that we still dont know

Many tech channels tested and it's been fixed.

 

[Memati187]

Lmao, nothing to see here.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

John Linneman nails the problem of this not actually playing Xbox games.

The Xbox brand is going to be very confusing in future.

 

[DenchDeckard]

what the funk is that FF XVI port. Thats embarrassing.

 

[cireza]

Stranger of paradise is fantastic, you'll have a blast.

Just finished the game. On top of being excellent gameplay wise, it just kept getting and better as new places were revealed with great references to FF1. Unexpected though was how the story was actually going to become so awesome at the end. Music was also another high point of the game.