Because Bethesda is now officially part of the Xbox family, a bunch of the studio games are now available on Game Pass, and a large portion of them are getting the FPS Boost treatment for Xbox Series X / S.
Talk to Larry Hryb, AKA “Xbox’s Major Nelson” (thanks, Wario64Xbox communications manager Jeff Rubenstein has confirmed that five of the Bethesda games just launched on Game Pass will be FPS enhanced for Microsoft’s latest consoles. These games are Dishonored Definitive Edition, Skyrim Special Edition, Fallout 4, Fallout 76 and Prey. Rubenstein also made it clear that all five of the new FPS Boosted games will allow you to turn the feature on and off if you prefer to play it as it was originally released, but I can not imagine why you would want to not that.
There’s a lot going on with Xbox right now, so you’ll be forgiven if you missed the news about FPS Boost. This is exactly how it sounds: a new feature exclusive to Xbox Series X / S that gives older games, especially Xbox One era titles, a significant boost without the original developers needing anything. This latest series of Besthesda games joins a meager list of titles that support the feature at the moment, but Microsoft has indicated that it plans to add FPS Boost to its backlog of Xbox games approximately every few weeks.
If you’re still wondering what Microsoft’s Bethesda acquisition for exclusivity means, Xbox says a ‘future future’ Bethesda games are exclusively Xbox and PC.