I deleted and redownloaded a bunch of games last night, ones that had X have now changed to Scorpio. Halo 5 now says this. Even 360 games and games so old they won't be getting patches.
Games that have been recently updated have had Xbox-Scorpio added now.
File Sizes haven't changed
I'm not entirely convinced that that actually represents the assets now, if it were some kind of compatibility change that all games required, then I think MS would have said , as it would essentially mean regular (older) Xbox One games wouldn't function on X without an update.
Unless of course a manual tweak is made to each game to allow the 16xAA and stuff to happen, but the game works without this. We know MS have to manually vet and create the correct backwards compatibility profile for each Xbox One game.
Yeah, the "Assets Installed" seems to have been changed on
anything updated after some time on the 5th of October (I have Rare Replay's copy of PD Zero that was last updated at 02:49 on the 5th that doesn't have the X in assets, then Momodora updated at 19:15 that does, along with anything updated after that), including old 360 BC games, and retro-style indies that wouldn't ever need any improved assets.
Since it seemingly applies to everything updated after a certain date/time, I'm guessing it's something cert-related. Maybe they're requiring 4k-ready dashboard UI assets now, and that's activating the X/Scorpio flag? Stuff like the game tiles, the full-screen hero art used on Home, etc.
do i have to do anything to get the xbox one x updates?
edit - sorry prior to it coming out
And it was said we can already preload 4K assets on our current consoles, but how and when? I have my One S on instant on so perhaps it already has been downloading these assets while in standby.
The setting to allow downloading Scorpio assets is currently only available on the Preview dash - Settings -> System -> Backup & transfer -> Download 4k game content.
If you're not in preview, you'll have to wait for the update to be publicly available (not long now, since they're pushing builds out to the Omega ring, which only happens shortly before release). One of the content blocks you can add to Home on the new dash "Get Ready for Xbox One X", which has shortcuts to the relevant settings section, and to the new bulk transfer tool if you want to copy stuff to a new external or over the network once your X arrives.