
One current-gen fault that goes unresolved is hardly enough to sink a whole console. There's still plenty of reason to be excited about the Xbox Series X. No one wants to sit down to play a brand new game that they spent $60 or, in the next gen, $70 for, only to have to wait an hour before they can actually play it. Lengthy download times have been a scourge of modern gaming for a while now, and they're despised by players for very good reasons. With the substantial list of improvements players can expect from the new hardware, it's a huge disappointment that they'll still have to wait so long to play their favorite games.

The significant upgrade in power and graphics that the Xbox Series X offers to current gen games has already been recorded. Given the incredible loading speeds that have been recorded on the new console, this is especially disappointing, a fact pointed out by the good people at GamesRadar+, who were definitely taken aback by the download speeds. Specifically the team tried installing Titanfall 2 and found that it was about 35 minutes before the game was fully downloaded, followed by a 30 GB update that slowed things down still more. The website reports that the Xbox Series X will take about as long to download a game from a disc as the Xbox One does. GamesRadar+ has taken to Twitter to share its experience with the Series X as well, and the news isn't great for fans. Related: Xbox And Nintendo Collaborations Not 'Sustainable', According To Xbox Head The information isn't always reliable, but it does give players some idea of what to expect from the new console.


Feedback from these early sessions have provided prospective buyers with a lot of important information for instance, a lot of reporters have claimed that the Series X has a serious overheating problem, though one insider tested his preview model with a thermometer and found it was actually running cooler than the Xbox One. As the release date for the new console creeps closer and closer, reporters and critics have had more and more hands-on time with preview builds of the Series X.
