Xbox One X/S Dolby Atmos Games: Full List

Forbes writes: When most people talk about the performance differences between today’s games consoles, they tend to focus on their graphics capabilities. There is, though, another area where different consoles - and different games - can score a significant advantage over their rivals: sound quality.

[2cents]

Amos really makes all the difference.
I would recommend it to anyone on the fence about it.

[TankCrossing]

Yup. I have a 7.1.4 Atmos setup. Pain in the balls to set up, but worth it imo.

Atmos for headsets is pretty good too. MS should be commended on that, they have taken a very consumer friendly approach to virtual surround (in contrast to the typical licensed headsets ripoff).

[2cents]

That must sound incredible!!!
I'm only rocking a 5.1.2 but for my room size it's perfect.
Maybe one day when I own my own place with a dedicated cinema/games room would I go that Boom!!! Haha.

[Kumakai]

That’s awesome!

I just got a RIG800 gaming headset (definitely recommended) that came with an Atmos license and I must say, I’m impressed at how well they got it to work in even headphones. A very cool bonus.

[strifeblade]

I have a pretty sick set up, a 5.2.2 set up, with a high end 4k hdr tv, Im so glad microsoft kept users like me in mind when designing the xbox, so that we can have the ultimate gaming and media set up.

I was dissapointed to hear that the ps4 doesnt support dolby or dts, or 4k when the ps3 was pioneering bluray and adopting dvd with ps2, and now they abondoned 4k- BIG MISTAKE.

Mark my words on the next system, they will follow suit to microsoft and add 4k player and hopefully decent sound. I have some friends that are sony gamers that are pissed at the fact they dont have a 4k player and any sony gamer with a pro has to shell another 200 for a 4k player puts its at a cost above the X!

The way I see for the gamer on a budget sony is great but gamers who want something high end get shafted.

[Weeblordbad]

I'm always a little surprised Sony doesn't catch more flak for the things that the Xbox DOES do well, however small that list may be.

[Bobafret]

I am trying to price an Atmos system but they are expensive.

[AAWELLS09]

Do what I do and buy a refurbished model from Amazon. I've bought 2 refurb receivers over the last few yrs and both have been practically new all wrapped in what looks like original plastic and comes with everything that comes with it when its brand new. It just cuts the cost way down.

[Enjoigamin]

Atmos is amazing. Another reason to own a X if you have atmos. Hope the PS4 pro will be capable in the future 2-3 years without atmos will make me sad.

[NeoGamer232]

Yes, Sony has better and more exclusive games, but Microsoft continually keeps improving the cross-platform games so that they play much better on Xbox One S and X.

[maybelovehate]

I have only tried the headphones implementation of Atmos which isn't really Atmos I suppose. It was pretty hit and miss. The demo sounded amazing but the games and movies I tried I couldn't really tell a difference. Would love to try it on an actual Dolby Atmos hardware setup though.

[TankCrossing]

PC or Xbox? I find the PC headphone implementation quite flakey. A lot of games seem to ignore it and output in stereo. I think it depends on games using the latest audio libraries in Windows, but many don't.

The Xbox implementation is more reliable, I guess because the audio standards are more consistent.

[maybelovehate]

Both PC and Xbox. The demo's are amazing. But in the games and movies that supposedly support it, I couldn't really tell compared to just regular Dolby 7.1 on the headphones. Also weird with headphones since you have to set them to stereo for the Atmos to work.

[TankCrossing]

Atmos for headphones is stereo virtualisation, so it makes sense that you have to set stereo to use it. In order to work the game/film needs to be outputting object-based sound though, so it should respect the Atmos setting and output surround sound for Atmos to virtualise. Atmos will also virtualise 7.1/5.1 etc discreet channels, if that's what the game delivers.

On PC I find many games ignore the Atmos setting, and output raw stereo. That can't be virtualised properly. Well I say "many games", I've only really tested a couple. I don't use headsets much.

[Enjoigamin]

@may if you haven't heard atmos before try a Best Buy showroom it'll blow you away. My Best Buy has a demo setup but not sure about others.

[2cents]

When I was playing tomb raider there was a part where I was creeping under a walkway with soldiers running above. I paused the game thinking it was someone upstairs, lol.
This has happened many times where I'm genuinely surprised by the spatial sound placement, It actually works!

[Weeblordbad]

I'm in the same camp, I'm not finding a huge difference between stereo and Atmos. The real hardware set up sounds like a much better implementation.

[westcoastcooldude]

I'd definitely recommended it to anyone. I just recently upgraded my audio receiver (my old one didn't have any hdmi inputs) and this one has dolby atmos. I already had an 5.1 in-ceiling setup and it sounds amazing with dolby atmos. I haven't been able to take advantage of it as much as I want to since I game mostly late at night. I don't want the sounds to wake up my family so I'm usually playing with my Astro A50s.