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Iām such a muppet, I actually skimmed that article earlier today but somehow missed that one. Thanks.
Just had a fun session with @edd9000 dogfighting in IL2 in VR. Except for when he got in the spitfire and it was basically impossible to fight. That was less fun 
Spent far too long thinking āgosh this is amazing itās just like flying, why is Pete shooting at me?ā
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Itās not like I hit you 
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Asking a stupid question here, but if youāre streaming games from the Game Pass, why would you need storage space - is it because itās still better to download/save games to the drive?
It still has to save them to the local drive. Since some games are over 100gb, itās easy to run out of space.
And if your home internet isnāt fast, itāll take some time to download!
Thanks. So what happens if you need to un-download a game to make space for another, does it save where you are got when you re-download?
You can also plug in a USB hard drive for extra storage on the Xbox
Yeah but they cost a fortune (well the official onesā¦donāt know if any external one will work).
my lads certainly dont have official MS ones and they work fine
they have a WD 2 TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0, Ā£60 it has worked fine for 4 years with their Xbox
It saves your game saves, so progress etc is kept
Great, thanks both. Think Iām leaning towards the Xbox X - if/when I can get hold of it!
If youāre like me and the last time you played games was ~20 years ago i donāt think it matters too much what you get.
We got the Switch and I got Doom 2016 and was like fuuuuuuucking hellllll!
Hah yeah youāre probably right. Having looked into it a bit more, there seems to be a large overlap in games anyway - at least most of the major games are available on both, and the driving games I wanted to play, so itās not so bad. I thought they each had more exclusives.
Iāve used a 1TB external hard drive for mine as well without any problems. You can also use cloud saved gaming with the Game Pass if space was ever an issue.
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Going back to the question of gaming monitors, having done a bit more research, it seems like for my budget of about Ā£3-400, you can only choose between 4k/60hz or QHD/full HD 1080 at 120-144hz.
(The model @catcando linked to above turns out to be 60hz).
So what would I notice more, the lower res or lower refresh rate? Looking at monitors of around 27" size.
For reference, Iām not going to be playing shooters in competitions where split second advantages count. I do want to play driving/flight sims though, and games like Doom/Call of Duty on a more casual level.
Thanks in advance 
my son has 2 x 1080p monitors, one is 60 and one is 140hz, and the 140 is miles better, much smoother. And if you stick to 1080p you can probably opt for a cheaper console. Higher detail and FPS would beat resolution in games Iād think esp at 27"?
From the review
The XB273Kās gaming pedigree is obvious the second you unbox it: it is a 27-inch, G-Sync enabled, IPS screen, that boasts a 4ms gray-to-gray response rate, and a 144Hz refresh rate. Oh, and a 4K resolution. And itās got HDR
Scan have that at Ā£400 at the moment