Xbox Series X/S launch games: here's the 30 next-gen optimized titles
Microsoft has revealed 30 games optimized for Xbox Series X/S that will be available on day one for the next-gen consoles.
Of the 30 games for Xbox Series X/S available on day one, 20 will feature Smart Delivery and are upgraded automatically. There will also be "thousands of games" that are backward compatible across four generations.
Here's the list:
- Assassins Creed Valhalla (Smart Delivery)
- Borderlands 3 (Smart Delivery)
- Bright Memory 1.0 (Smart Delivery)
- 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)
- 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)
This isn't an extensive list of all the games releasing on Xbox Series X/S, obviously, as there are plenty of titles to be coming to the system.
You have the biggies like Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War on November 13, Destiny 2: Beyond Light coming November 10 and optimized for Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S on December 8, and Cyberpunk 2077 on November 19 which will also take advantage of Xbox's Smart Delivery technology.