In less than four weeks, retailers will start selling the long-anticipated next-gen consoles from Microsoft. The Xbox Series X and Series S promise eager Xbox fans a chance to play old games with enhanced graphics thanks to an extensive backward compatibility regime, but let's not forget that the new Xboxes will also be getting a bunch of new titles that will take full advantage of next-gen technology.
Microsoft just released their full list of 30 games that will be optimized to play on the Xbox Series X/S. This includes older games that have been enhanced to display at 4k resolution and 60fps, as well as ray-tracing compatibility and near-instant loading times. Some of these games even feature Microsoft's new Smart Delivery so that if you already own the game on Xbox One you'll get a free upgrade when you move to the Xbox Series X/S.
Here's the full Xbox Series X/S catalog that will be available at launch on November 10:
- Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (Smart Delivery)
- Borderlands 3 (Smart Delivery)
- Bright Memory 1.0
- Cuisine Royale (Smart Delivery)
- Dead by Daylight (Xbox Game Pass + Smart Delivery)
- Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition
- DIRT 5 (Smart Delivery)
- Enlisted
- Evergate
- The Falconeer (Smart Delivery)
- Fortnite
- Forza Horizon 4 (Xbox Game Pass + Smart Delivery)
- Gears 5 (Xbox Game Pass + Smart Delivery)
- Gears Tactics (Xbox Game Pass + Smart Delivery)
- Grounded (Xbox Game Pass + Smart Delivery)
- King Oddball (Smart Delivery)
- Maneater (Smart Delivery)
- Manifold Garden (Smart Delivery)
- NBA 2K21
- Observer: System Redux
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Xbox Game Pass + Smart Delivery)
- Planet Coaster (Smart Delivery)
- Sea of Thieves (Xbox Game Pass + Smart Delivery)
- Tetris Effect: Connected (Xbox Game Pass + Smart Delivery)
- The Touryst (Xbox Game Pass + Smart Delivery)
- War Thunder (Smart Delivery)
- Warhammer: Chaosbane Slayer Edition
- Watch Dogs: Legion (Smart Delivery)
- WRC 9 FIA World Rally Championship (Smart Delivery)
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon (Smart Delivery)
- Yes, Your Grace (Smart Delivery)
The new Xbox launch is sort of in a weird spot. There are definitely a lot of titles here that are straddling the divide between next-gen and current-gen consoles as developers focus on making games for two console generations at once rather than just one. It'll likely be a year or so before we truly get the full measure of what the powerful hardware in the Xbox Series X can do when a fully next-gen game like Halo Infinite arrives.
Xbox Series X/S arrives on November 10.
Source: Microsoft