How easy is upgrading to an Xbox One X?

Preparation

If you’re planning to upgrade, but don’t have the system quite yet, Microsoft wants to do as much as it can to make sure you’re not waiting once the One X is plugged in. There’ll be the system update either way – there’s always a system update. But you can dig into your Xbox One menus and enable 4K download on non-4K systems. If you’re not upgrading, definitely don’t do that. It’ll just take up hard-drive space. But for many of us, our download speeds can’t compare to the transfer speeds of our internal networks and hard drives. This feature wasn’t quite ready when I was doing the bulk of my downloading just because there weren’t very many Xbox One X Enhanced games just yet, but it’s still worth a look all the same.

Cabling

This was a genius move on Microsoft’s part. The Xbox One X’s ports are in the same spots, albeit slightly different spacing, as the Xbox One S. Swapping the two out couldn’t be easier. While in the process of reviewing the unit, I ended up swapping the systems more than a few times as I went back and forth to capture screenshots and video and things like that. It’s as simple as it could possibly be. One day, maybe HDMI will transmit video, ethernet, and power, and we’ll just have one cable for everything. Until then, this is as easy as it gets.

Game Transfer

Getting your games from one Xbox to the other is the next step. Microsoft has provided a couple ways to do this, and they’re both pretty easy to get started. The cheapest is using the new network transfer feature. If you have two Xbox consoles connected to the same network, you simply plug them in, turn them on, drop into the new console’s settings menu, and begin the transfer. How long this will take will vary wildly based on how much you’re transferring and the quality of your network. If you’re going to do this, I strongly suggest both Xbox consoles be wired. Even over the wire, this takes plenty of time. Just a few full-sized games can take hours. It’s the kind of thing you set-and-forget. Hook it up before work in the morning, or before bed at night. If you choose this method, it’s easy to setup, and requires nothing more than selection which games and apps you want to move over.

Article source: https://www.technobuffalo.com/2017/11/07/xbox-one-x-upgrade-easy/