[Series X]What is the difference between 'upgrading' and 'updating'?

Hello again, as you went from the old generation to the new you upgrade the games to the new generation.

Hello, first it's a pleasure to be able to help you today.
My name is Georges C. welcome to the community.

Hello , only the developers of the game could tell the difference between the versions for the consoles, but by their description I can imagine that it is the 4k texture packs and related things, outside that when upgrading if it shows this value in GB, it may be that you have to recompile the kernel of the game, for this is as if you were downloading the entire game again to the new version of the console you have.

I believe I figured out what happened. The 'upgrading' should have been the 'smart delivery' upgrading my Xbox one game, to an Xbox Series X optimized version of the game. Microsoft does say that it is supposed to allow you to play the best version of the game, for your console. And the optimized should be better for my console. Hence, I was 'upgraded' from Xbox one to Series X Optimized. The 20GB update after, should be the updates for the optimized version of the game.

Hello, first it's a pleasure to be able to help you today.

My name is welcome to the community.

Hello SkyeEmber, only the developers of the game could tell the difference between the versions for the consoles, but by their description I can imagine that it is the 4k texture packs and related things, outside that when upgrading if it shows this value in GB, it may be that you have to recompile the kernel of the game, for this is as if you were downloading the entire game again to the new version of the console you have.

Not really...

Xbox Series X games / upgrades / updates has to be installed onto the Series X internal or expansion card SSD,

You can have Xbox One games on your external hard drive that will get an Series X upgrade but the games will need to be transferred to the Series X and then the Series X upgrade will need to be downloaded onto the Series X SSD,

As an example...

I have Marvel Avengers on my external hard drive that will get the Series X upgrade and I will transfer the game over to the Series X SSD ready to download and update the game to the Series X version when available.

Hi,

You have to pick up from the store the cross-gen edition and it will cost you the difference between the standard and the cross-gen version (around 10 bucks) :

How to upgrade Cold War from Xbox One to Xbox Series X/S