Far and away one of the biggest selling points of Microsoft’s upcoming Xbox Series X console comes in the form of Smart Delivery. If you’re unfamiliar with this feature, essentially, it ensures that select games that you may purchase on Microsoft’s current-gen platform, the Xbox One, will then transition for free over to Series X once it releases later this year.Well, today via theofficial Xbox website, Microsoft laid out in greater detail just how Smart Delivery will work. Broadly, the post explained many details of this facet of the Xbox Series X that we’ve heard before, but some new information was also brought about, too. Microsoft made clear that physical games you may purchase “canâ¯also support Smart Delivery if the developer or publisher decides toâ¯implement it.” Xbox Game Pass titles will also qualify for this, but the onus will fall on “theâ¯individual developerâ¯to determine whether they take advantage of Smart Delivery.“Furthermore, it was also clarified that while some games that will be Smart Delivery compatible initially, developers will also provide further optimized versions later on to upgrade the game for Xbox Series X. CD Projekt Red’sÂCyberpunk 2077was specifically mentioned as being one of these games that will be have an improved iteration that comes to Series X later on.Perhaps most importantly, this new blog post from Xbox also outlined the initial slate of Smart Delivery titles that will be coming to Xbox Series X. The full list is as follows:
All in all, it’s a solid slate of initial games here, even though we’ve known about most of these titles being compatible with the Smart Delivery program for quite some time. Microsoft also clarified that this is only the full list that has been revealed as of this moment. More games will be added here in the weeks and months leading up to the launch of the next-gen console.
The Xbox Series X is still planned to launch later this holiday season at an undetermined date and price. We should be seeing a whole lot more of the games that are scheduled to arrive on the console in a new event that is scheduled to transpire in July.
