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And our save files from our old systems should just work on the new one.
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When we play games online with friends, the new console should connect with players still using old hardware or competing consoles.
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Games should seamlessly update while we’re asleep or busy at work. A console should play discs, but also connect to an online storefront. But we have different expectations these days. In the past, players expected a video game console to holster new video games and then play them. The goal is more complicated than it sounds, as great technological solutions often are. With the Xbox Series X, Microsoft has, without a hint of subtlety, taken the opposite approach. Novelties extended beyond the hardware itself with projects like Microsoft’s SmartGlass app, a forgotten attempt at “second screen” integration, in which players would fumble with their tablet while trying to enjoy Halo. A “snappable” user interface could display MLB box scores from one app while you surfed Netflix in another window. The instruction manual encouraged new owners to run their cable box through the game console, and voilà: The Xbox became a centralized media hub. Through the initially mandatory Kinect peripheral, you could control menus and apps with hand gestures and voice. The Xbox One featured a grab bag of technological gimmickry. Microsoft infamously spent its public reveal of the Xbox One in 2013 talking about everything but video games.
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The Xbox Series X is the antithesis of its predecessor, a console that proved to be many things, none of which were boring, though many of which were infuriating. If I judged Microsoft’s new video game console, the Xbox Series X, purely as a piece of hardware, I’d only need one word: boring.