Everything You Need to Know About Microsoft’s Xbox One X

After more than a year of rumors and teases and dorky Xtreme computer code names , Microsoft ’s in style console , the Xbox One X , is at last here . It ’s not in reality here , here , the console will go on sale November 7 . But we now have all the details about this novel console , which is officially the fastest console table built to date .

What is it?

Microsoft ’s in vogue console in the Xbox One lineup . This is n’t a new generation of console , but an improved edition of Microsoft ’s current 8th generation cabinet , the Xbox One . Like last yr ’s Xbox One S , it can represent 4 K UHD subject , let in UHD Blu - rays . It also supports HDR , for elaborate detail in arena of uttermost brightness and dark , and wider color gamut , to reproduce people of color nigher to the 1 we see in the real Earth .

Unlike the Xbox One S , the Xbox One X will upscale older games to 4 K UHD , and produce higher quality images even on 1080p and even broken - resolution displays . Much as the PS4 Pro improves visual quality across the playback spectrum versus the original PS4 .

How fast is it?

Really damn degraded for a console . According to Microsoft , its Scorpio C.P.U. is the fast mainframe ever put in a console , which is something we ’ve known since Microsoft declare the spec back in March . What we did n’t hump is that the processor runs so hot it requires liquid cooling system , a first for a console .

Besides a processor with over 7 billion electronic transistor , it has 12 GB of DDR5 RAM , a GPU clocked at 1.172 GHz and that ’s capable of 6 trillion floating point operations per second of execution . For reference , Nvidia ’s in style top graphic scorecard , the $ 800 - plus 1080Ti , does 11.3 teraflops , while the Xbox One X ’s primary competitor , the PS4 Pro , does 4.12 .

The power direction system is also so first-class , according to Microsoft , that the party elected to name it after its primary engineer , Bill Hovis .

All images: Alex Cranz/Gizmodo

All images: Alex Cranz/Gizmodo

What kind of games will it play?

Anything presently uncommitted on the Xbox One and Xbox One S , plus the 42 game announced at Microsoft ’s Xbox event , 22 of which are sole to the Xbox One console cortege , include : State of Decay 2 , the raw east - mutation focused shooter , Darwin Project , and the super pretty The Last Night .

Notably the exclusives announced so far are either “ launch ” scoop , which entail they ’ll launch on the Xbox One before expanding to the PS4 and Windows , or they ’re Microsoft - exclusive , launching on the Xbox One and Windows 10 only .

These are two easygoing rendering of exclusivity , but they can still be super helpful for a console trying to make its mark , as mass will buy a cabinet just for a specific secret plan ( see the latest Zelda and the Nintendo Switch ) . But that ’s not always the case . Rise of the Tomb Raider was an Xbox One launch exclusive title two days ago , and yet , according to VG 24/7 , its PC version outsold it three to one when it establish in early 2016 .

Argentina’s President Javier Milei (left) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., holding a chainsaw in a photo posted to Kennedy’s X account on May 27. 2025.

Also mark that anything can materialise between a game ’s promulgation and its release , so be careful about getting too stir by the games shown on stage . It could be years before you see them .

Will it VR?

Despitemy own extreme hopes , there was zero news on the VR front . That will learn me to get excited about virtual reality ever again .

What else can it do?

It ’s backwards compatible ! Not unfeignedly , your Xbox and Xbox 360 discs wo n’t work in the Xbox One X , but select Xbox 360 digital biz purchases will . Microsoft also announced a plan to bring a number of original Xbox games to the Xbox One political platform , including the major sports fan favorite plane game , Crimson Skies .