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SSD performance in current consoles isn't indicative of what to expect with next gen consoles. It isn't being utilized to the full bandwidth it's capable of because of limited bandwidth it was designed to be able to use; PS4 has this same limitation and this is highly unlikely to be a limitation with newer consoles, you'll be able to get the full bandwidth just like you can when it's hooked up to a modern PC.
 
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Xbox Is About To Get Another Great New Feature
John Archer1:07 pm
Microsoft’s Xbox One family of consoles has enjoyed a host of great improvements in the years following the original console’s underwhelming launch. And this spirit of innovation is showing no signs of slowing down, as it’s now emerged that Xbox One owners will soon be able to have their gaming enhanced by DTS:X sound.
Rumors that this feature might be inbound have been circulating for some time within the Xbox Insider community, but it was confirmed today in a tweet by Steven Wilssens, one of Microsoft’s lead audio team.
The big deal with DTS:X, if you’re not familiar with it, is that it’s an object-based surround sound system. This means that – like its rival Dolby Atmos – it builds true three-dimensional audio ‘landscapes’ that place you right at the heart of the action. Non object-based sound systems, by comparison, simply produce sound effects at your speakers, rather than in the space between them.

The Xbox One family of consoles is getting a key new feature in the coming weeks.Photo: Microsoft
DTS:X has been available for movies via the Xbox One consoles’ Blu-ray/4K Blu-ray drive since 2017. But as we’ve seen – or rather, heard – with some of the Dolby Atmos mixes used on titles such as Assassin’s Creed: Origins and, especially, Shadow Of The Tomb Raider, object-based surround sound can deliver truly transformative experiences with games. So it’s great to see Microsoft taking a format-neutral approach to sound in games by expanding its audio reach to include the DTS format as well as Dolby.
PC users will be pleased to hear that Wilssens tweet confirms that DTS:X support will also be coming to Windows in the coming weeks – even before it arrives on Xbox. In fact, a DTS:X Ultra app header (Ultra being the version of DTS:X that’s designed with games, VR and AR applications in mind) has actually been visible on the Microsoft Store for some time now, but without the app behind it being published.
It may be available now to PC insiders; if you happen to know that it is, feel free to let me know via the Twitter account shown at the end of this article.
No details have been released yet on which upcoming gaming titles might be getting DTS:X Ultra sound. Or, potentially, which already released titles might be in line for a DTS:X upgrade via a future patch. But doubling the object-based sound mixing options available to games developers can surely only increase the likelihood of more games appearing with awesome object-based sound functionality on board.
Although it isn’t confirmed yet, I suspect the new DTS:X functionality will include an Xbox DTS:X headphone mode. Certainly a Microsoft document found by Reddit users a few months back referred to a DTS Headphone X feature for Windows, so it seems fair to assume this will translate to Xbox. Especially given that Dolby has provided a Dolby Atmos headphone app for Xbox.
Assuming DTS:X brings as much to games as Dolby Atmos, I can’t wait for the first titles to arrive.Photo: DTS
No exact rollout date for the DTS:X gaming update was confirmed in the tweet; it merely stated ‘the coming weeks’. The tweet did confirm, though, that as usual with new Xbox features, the DTS:X support will roll out to Xbox Insiders first, so that potential bugs and issues can be fixed before it’s then rolled out to the wider Xbox community.
Microsoft’s audio team will be keen to get the DTS:X roll out right given the fairly wide-ranging (but now, it seems resolved) issues experienced by some Xbox users when the Dolby Atmos functionality appeared.
Keep an eye on my Forbes feed for more details on this great new Xbox development as and when they appear.
 
SSD performance in current consoles isn't indicative of what to expect with next gen consoles. It isn't being utilized to the full bandwidth it's capable of because of limited bandwidth it was designed to be able to use; PS4 has this same limitation and this is highly unlikely to be a limitation with newer consoles, you'll be able to get the full bandwidth just like you can when it's hooked up to a modern PC.
Yep.

Anybody who went from standard HDD to SSD on PC know how big a difference ans SSD has on everything, from OS start up to app readiness to gameing.
 
No it was like MisterX something. I think he was a foreign dude.

Misterxmedia. One of my fav fanboy nut jobs.

His partner in crime mistercteam though was the real nutter. Still remember them boasting that the OG Xbox one was actually 5tflops or some s***, a year after it launched.

The photo diagrams done in paint were the cherry on top.
 
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Misterxmedia. One of my fav fanboy nut jobs.

His partner in crime mistercteam though was the real nutter. Still remember them boasting that the OG Xbox one was actually 5tflops or some s***, a year after it launched.

The photo diagrams done in paint were the cherry on top.

Yeah that’s the guy. His posts were classic.
 
We had one??? I thought it was Rollins...

Haha nah, I used to live in Seattle, and I know a guy that has been in the gaming industry for a looong time. He is now with one of the most well-known studios there, but I only hear from him every so often.

I just talk to different people on Twitter, and sometimes they hint at things. I have no idea what’s real, I just chum the water here and let the sharks fight over it :). And those with tech knowledge, of course. I don’t care if someone thinks something I post is way off, I just prefer when it’s backed with facts.

Anyways , MisterX still has a website, but there is hardly anyone there. He’s actually slightly anti-gaming now, and more pro-Sony if anything. But he rarely posts anyways.

Although mistercteam still posts here from time to time under a different name.
 
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