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Smaller Xbox One Coming This Year, More Powerful Xbox One In 2017, Says Report (kotaku.com)
Keza MacDonald and Jason Schreier, reporting for game blog Kotaku: Microsoft is preparing at least two new Xbox models for release in the next two years, sources tell Kotaku. Later this year we'll see a cheaper, smaller Xbox One, and next year Microsoft will release a more powerful version of their premiere console. The 2017 Xbox, which is codenamed Scorpio, will have a more powerful GPU. We hear that it will also be technically capable of supporting the Oculus Rift and that Microsoft is pursuing a partnership with Oculus. As for 2016, sources have told us there's at least a more compact version coming by year's end. One source believed it will include a larger 2TB hard drive, double the capacity of the most spacious current model. We're expecting Microsoft to announce the more compact machine at E3 next month.
I don't even understand why they would release a more powerful console... are we going to see games soon that are "Only Compatible with XBOX ONE 2"?
They said the smaller xbone coming out this year will be cheaper, so they're not really pulling an Osbourne. There's still good reasons to get an xbone.
It's the opposite of Nintendo. The latter has "announced" (well, acknowledged its existence) the NX and told everyone the Wii U - which has seen no price cuts - is about to be discontinued. So they've out-Osbourned Osbourne.
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You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Worse I bet we see games that run better on XBox One.2
The best thing about consoles is that you can grab a title off the shelf and expect a good experience that looks like the promo videos etc you see on Youtube and elsewhere. None of the well if you have this video card and are on the latest Windows with a down rev video driver installed BS. Consoles just work as expected.
Moreover parents and other relatives just have to know the kid has an XBONE and can pick a title and expect they will be able to enjoy the gift.
Microsoft is going to ruin that. Once we have to figure out well its XBONE software but it runs all choppy and you don't really want it unless you have XBONE.2, consoles will suck for all the reasons PC gaming sucks and offer none of the benefits the PC platform does.
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At best, consoles catch up with PCs for a split second on their release.
As you say 'Most PCs today can't...' but some can. The new XBONE will match a state of the art PC of a year ago, maybe.
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How about XBOX 360.1? or One.360? Ooooh, about Xbox One.1?
Maybe that's why I should stay away from marketing...
PS4 is going to do it, Xbox is going to do it. A more 'iterative' Apple like approach. /well supported/ for a good lifetime, anywhere from 4 to 7 years.
At one point (as in every other console generation, previous to now) you could purchase a console and rest assured that it would be
The 'ruleset' for the new consoles, apparently also includes supporting the old device going forward. However with the old consoles, as there was only one choice, period - you would find in the later lifetime of the console, exceptionally good looking games were produced which did fascinating things with the hardware, as the developers were of course limited. Examples such as Uncharted 3, The Last of Us, God of War 2, The 'new' Tomb Raider game on Xbox 360, Gears of War 3. Shadow of the Colossus and so on. /extremely/ likely that the support for the original consoles will not be quite up to the level it would've been, had they been the only choice for 5+ years, let alone as the device ages and more and more move to the newer models.
These new mid generation consoles will allow developers to focus on a new platform, while they still must support the old one, to appease Sony and MS certification and of course angry early adopters, it's
One other advantage (if you will) of being a console gamer is that when you've decided to buy a console, there's an element of 'nerd relief' in that you don't even need to /consider/ upgrades. There's no such thing. You've accepted the compromise of console gaming* and once past that, can relax knowing you have the best on offer for that platform, for the full duration. This advantage is about to disappear and the nerdier gamers (myself included) will always have that urge to research the differences on the updated platform. Perhaps in game reviews we'll see "The original Xbox One edition of XYZ game, looks quite good, however the edition of XYZ game has vastly surprising and significant boosts in ABC features"
We don't want to read that, if we wanted that, we'd have bought a PC.
So yeah, I'm quite disappointed with this change in console gaming, I do not feel it's for the better. Well actually no, I'm sure there will be some benefits - but it will /almost certainly/ become a more expensive hobby going forward.
* Yes console gaming is obviously a compromise from PC gaming in many ways, exceedingly few console gamers actually believe it's a better option than PC gaming, it's simply a different option. I PC gamed for near 25 years before I finally went 100% console gaming. Primarily time and money limitations.