Xbox Series X is out today! What do you play on it?

November 10: if you have pre-ordered the device, you have probably already received an email from the webshop that it has been handed over to the carrier. Microsoft Xbox Series X (and S) release today. Finally! It marks the start of a new generation of consoles and gradually the end of the previous generation of consoles: Xbox One (2013). We are anxiously waiting, at the same time we wonder: what are we actually going to play?

Xbox Series X

This year everything is a bit different. While the game consoles will appear on their planned release date as promised, there have been no boasting E3 presentations that blown away cheering audiences and the build-up to release was a bit bumpy anyway. Certainly when it comes to games: working from home turns out to be quite an attack on how developers work. For example, Cyberpunk 2077 was postponed to December, but also the Microsoft exclusive Halo: Infinite.

That’s quite a bit, because there are actually few exclusive games coming to Xbox Series X. The only launch games available exclusively on the new console is Bright Memory 1.0. Furthermore, it is mainly games that have already been released on Xbox One or are also coming out, such as Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Forza Horizon 4, The Touryst, Gears 5, Watch Dogs Legion, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla. Games that are not necessarily Microsoft exclusive, because the very latest Assassin’s Creed, Call of Duty and Watch Dogs, for example, also comes out on the major competitor from Japan.

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Xbox Game Pass

It will mainly be the future that will show whether Xbox Series X will be properly supplied with new, exclusive growth. At the same time, that seems to be fine, thanks in part to Xbox Game Pass: all games from Microsoft Studios come straight to this at launch, which is extra interesting now that Microsoft has bought a big fish like Bethesda. In addition, Microsoft is probably stronger in cloud gaming. It has xCloud and can of course use the infrastructure of the umbrella (IT) Microsoft.

We are curious to what extent the new generation will also be accompanied by new IPs, in other words: games that do not fit within a franchise. In recent years we have been thrown to death with remakes, remasters and sequels. It is also noticeable in the announcement of the new one Mass Effect-game. Not only is that a successor to a previous game: the first three games are even merged into a “own” edition. So last weekend a remaster and successor of a well-known game series was announced.

For the time being, the range of games does not seem very exclusive, but who knows what the streaming services will bring us. Moreover, we are still in the midst of a pandemic that is affecting just about every sector. First let’s see how the console feels, works and of course: plays. Keep an eye on DutchCowboys in the near future for reviews of the consoles and of the games.

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