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The Xbox Series X storage system will make the game as small as possible. The goal of Microsoft's Xbox Series X is to make the size of game files as small as possible, so that users can make the most of their storage space, which is another blow to Sony PS5.
Xbox Series X can beat PS5 with this killer feature
In an interview of Jason Ronald, Xbox program management director, talked about how Microsoft's new console aims to use its internal SSD as efficiently as possible. Specifically, the X series will use compression technology.
Many modern games now exceed 100 GB in size and can quickly consume hard disk space. If a person downloads a set of AAA games, the TB drives of the Xbox One X can quickly fill up. Therefore, for those looking for the next generation of Xbox, a way to reduce the size of the game may be good news.
Ronald explained how Xbox Series X will use the new codec to further compress texture data. The data contains graphic assets, which are one of the biggest contributors to the overall size of the game. The BCPack codec will use the standard "block compression" in the gaming industry and add further compression to it.
Xbox Series X can beat PS5 with this killer feature
This will effectively reduce the "actual size of assets" and cause the game to take up less storage space and less memory, thereby effectively providing better overall performance.
Ronald also pointed out that the Xbox Series X can download games in a fragmented format. We know that this will be a good thing for people who only want to access the multiplayer mode or single-player mode of the game but do not want to access both modes at the same time. Ronald explained that this function goes further.
"Developers can also use the platform features to install only the game parts that players need, thereby minimizing the amount of content that needs to be installed or downloaded to the SSD. We provide a lot of tools to help them be more efficient." "If you are using For English consoles, [should not] take up space in French or Spanish audio files, and so on.
Admittedly, if you install some large games on the console, these enhancements will not prevent the console ’s storage space from filling up quickly. Ronald said: "In the end there is no panacea."
He also said that despite these efforts, game developers have no pressure to deliberately reduce the size of their games: "We do n’t want to limit our developers arbitrarily in the world we want to create, but at the same time, games It will also be obvious to developers that they do not want to download 300GB games. "
Both Xbox Series X and rival PS5 are expected to be available in November this year. Both will provide numerous upgrades on Xbox One and PS4, such as ray tracing graphics and custom SSD storage.
Xbox Series X can beat PS5 with this killer feature
In an interview of Jason Ronald, Xbox program management director, talked about how Microsoft's new console aims to use its internal SSD as efficiently as possible. Specifically, the X series will use compression technology.
Many modern games now exceed 100 GB in size and can quickly consume hard disk space. If a person downloads a set of AAA games, the TB drives of the Xbox One X can quickly fill up. Therefore, for those looking for the next generation of Xbox, a way to reduce the size of the game may be good news.
Ronald explained how Xbox Series X will use the new codec to further compress texture data. The data contains graphic assets, which are one of the biggest contributors to the overall size of the game. The BCPack codec will use the standard "block compression" in the gaming industry and add further compression to it.
Xbox Series X can beat PS5 with this killer feature
This will effectively reduce the "actual size of assets" and cause the game to take up less storage space and less memory, thereby effectively providing better overall performance.
Ronald also pointed out that the Xbox Series X can download games in a fragmented format. We know that this will be a good thing for people who only want to access the multiplayer mode or single-player mode of the game but do not want to access both modes at the same time. Ronald explained that this function goes further.
"Developers can also use the platform features to install only the game parts that players need, thereby minimizing the amount of content that needs to be installed or downloaded to the SSD. We provide a lot of tools to help them be more efficient." "If you are using For English consoles, [should not] take up space in French or Spanish audio files, and so on.
Admittedly, if you install some large games on the console, these enhancements will not prevent the console ’s storage space from filling up quickly. Ronald said: "In the end there is no panacea."
He also said that despite these efforts, game developers have no pressure to deliberately reduce the size of their games: "We do n’t want to limit our developers arbitrarily in the world we want to create, but at the same time, games It will also be obvious to developers that they do not want to download 300GB games. "
Both Xbox Series X and rival PS5 are expected to be available in November this year. Both will provide numerous upgrades on Xbox One and PS4, such as ray tracing graphics and custom SSD storage.
