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Microsoft Unveils The Smallest Xbox Ever -- The Xbox One X (theverge.com)
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After months of speculation, Microsoft is unveiling its "Project Scorpio" games console today, and it's officially named Xbox One X. Microsoft's Xbox One X naming comes just days after the company trademarked a mysterious S logo, and started dropping Scorpio hints in its E3 teaser videos. Microsoft is planning to launch the Xbox One X on November 7th worldwide. All existing Xbox One accessories will work on the new Xbox One X, alongside all existing Xbox 360 backwards compatible titles and Xbox One games. Microsoft is even planning to use "super sampling" on the One X to make new games look better even on 1080p TVs. [YouTube] The new console will ship with 6 teraflops of graphical power, more than its main competitor, the PS4 Pro, with 4.2 teraflops. Microsoft is using a custom GPU engine on Scorpio that runs at 1172MHz, a big increase over the Xbox One's 853MHz and even Sony's 911MHz found on the PS4 Pro.
Microsoft says the new Xbox One X is the "smallest Xbox ever."
Microsoft says the new Xbox One X is the "smallest Xbox ever."
Pronounced "eks-bonks".
Until now!
It's like a broken palindrome.
Kings of comparing themselves to themselves.
The real story here is the power, not the size of the box. Unless it's a portable console or a girlfriend, no one cares how small its box is.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Too little, too late. It's like painting racing stripes on your car when you're broken down after 1 lap, your rival's already finished the race and somehow expecting that modification to let you catch up.
I bet it would look massive in his tiny hands. The guy needs a win lately, give him this one at least.
What - did President Trump do the presentation?
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I feel like Microsoft and Nintendo are engaging in a contest to see who can come up with the silliest and least informative names for their consoles, and I look forward to the upcoming "XBox One-not-1 X 360" and "Newer New 2DS U".
Is it really an accomplishment to make the "smallest" installment of a line of consoles that often give vintage VCRs size envy?
Reliable, now reliable would be good.
But generally, squashing stuff down doesn't lead to reliable unless you make extraordinary efforts. Efforts which would push the price up.
A whole new generation of blue ring of death anyone ?
When it comes to GPUs, Hertz are irrelevant. Graphics are calculated in parallel using lots of computational pipelines. It's the number of pipelines * GPU speed that matters. You could have twice the speed per pipeline and only half the pipelines and then advertise it as twice as fast while maintaining the same computational throughput.
Of course, this doesn't even get into the matter of there being multiple types of processing pipelines (integer and single/double/quad precision) and differing ratios of each of them in the GPU.
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The Xbox Invisa Nano Mini - Holds 8 Billion games!
"I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
Unless it's a portable console or a girlfriend, no one cares how small its box is.
Logically, aesthetics are irrelevant but truth is stranger than fiction because Nintendo made many millions by simply offering the same Gameboy console in different colors.
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The price of AUD (presumably) $649 quoted for Australia is much cheaper than the $500 American price, after currency conversion and tax are taken into account. I wonder what they'll leave out for the Aussie market?
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The size of the Xbox 1/ x approaches zero as the version number of X increases.
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I predict that within 10 years Xboxes will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the 5 richest kings of Europe will own them.
The timing of this release is very poor for both this and the PS4 Pro. Both are still based on Jaguar, whereas Zen has massive boosts in IPC, power efficiency, and performance. Not to mention it has true cores now (instead of modules) and hyperthreading.
On top of that, Vega is coming out and being paired with their upcoming APUs as well.
The PS4 Pro and One X seem like half-steps. I understand most people doubted AMD could turn it around, but even then waiting for the next console generation seemed like the better idea (it always does with consoles).
So watching the presentation, this is pretty much my understanding of the XBox One X: it uses the same controllers, runs the same software, has the same interface, connects to the same network, but in 4K and for $499. So the premium price tag is literally JUST for 4k then over their existing offerings? What else has changed?
Don't forget NVN (noise, vibration, heat)!
You are definitely not living in Hong Kong...
Actually a lot of people care, especially if they travel a lot or live where space is at a premium. Leave it to uncultured, America-centric imbeciles like you to make sweeping statements for everyone in the world.
How are we being ripped off? we have a 4k machine that is VR capable for a few hundred bucks, and all the games work without installing a new driver every week. Yes it'll be obsolete in a couple of years but so will your PC and it's cheaper to replace.
as opposed to the eurocentric imbeciles who bitch about supposed 'america-centric' view points on american web sites?
You are not living in the real world, in many countries the size of the console is actually a key selling point, especially in countries and cities where every square foot of room is a premium.
I really feel Microsoft should have gone with the Xbox nOne as being the smallest yet.
The Xbox One XXX will finally make VR mainstream
I won't waste money on another console if it isn't portable.
Since we bought the Switch, our house barely wastes time on Xbox One. We just pack it up and go sit somewhere else. It has basically changed our entire game play dynamic.
Switch looks as though it will eventually get a good game lineup too. We may miss the Xbox lineup, but Switch is just a better console all around. Its performance won't win any awards as it's not much faster than an Apple TV, but Nintendo has apparently invested very heavily in building the infrastructure we should expect to make a game console happen.
So, if it's not portable, we're not interested.
A lot of pundits said the Wii U crashed and burned compared to the Wii because many parents who do the console buying didn't even realize it was a different console due to the confusing name. Let's see if the same happens with the Xbox One X.
XBox One X *is* Scorpio
They should first hit 60fps and 1080p without upscaling and perhaps then talk about supersampling stuff.
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You think that living in tiny hovel because your country is overpopulated makes you more cultured? I think you're confusing the English words "cultured" and "miserable."
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
It's "you're" you thick git
Funny you say that because when my pc games get a forced driver update every week it is for the microsoft visual c++ libraries that sometimes even the developers of the game dont know about. So if theres anyone to complain about these forced driver updates its to microsoft the same company that makes the xbox.
Even the video card makers dont force you to update their drivers. You only do so to improve performance.
And then theres the forced windows updates you cant get out of in wondows 10. Dont like forced updates all the time? Blame microsoft for purposely crippling the pc.
Xbox One X is Scorpio (Check your sources). Also, the One and the One S are exactly the same...The One S is simply smaller. All games made for the One X will work on the one
So the packaging it comes in is technically an Xbox One X box.
I mocked the Switches portability and the multiplayer functionality in the adverts.
Now I watch people actually use the console like in the ads. Plus whipping out the switch and having a Mario Kart battle on a plane is an awesome way to kill a short haul flight. I totally misjudged.
I'd consider 300 a few hundred, not the 500 bucks they want for it...
No-one really cares what a box on a shelf looks like. People do care about their handheld's aesthetics, because they actually spend time looking at it and holding it. There's nothing strange about that in the slightest.
To a degree I do care about the look of the console. My Xbox, Xbox 360 S, PS2, PS3, PS4 Slim, and Wii are all black consoles. I don't want the original Xbox One due to it's size and being the first generation. There is no way I'm putting the default white version of the Xbox One S in my cabinet with the others. I considered the dark green or blue, but didn't like those either. It doesn't help that the Xbox One only has 3 exclusives that I care about, and two of those are also available on Windows 10.
Pronunced "eksbonks."
The Xbox One S is not just smaller. It has a minor upgrade to blu-ray that allows it to play 4K content. If I had to guess, it's probably an upgraded decoder chip, since the non-S hardware couldn't do the same with a software update.
But, yes, other than that tiny change, the Xbox One S is identical to the Xbox One in its specs.
Quite a far cry from the the FS1 Flight Simulator I used to play on my TRS-80 Model 1 with 16 k of memory and loaded from a cassette. (And that original system probably cost more than an Xbox One X not even considering the time value of money.)
Just wait until Three Days Grace hears about this!
Play Station 2, something something full circle, something something...
I know Microsoft could make a mint with a desktop PC/XBox combo. There are places not in the US, where having one function for an appliance would be very useful. I'd probably say split the PC and console, so all the super-duper, locked down stuff stays on its side of the fence, while the PC side would get a decent i7, 32-64 gigs of RAM, a decently sized M.2, NVMe SSD, etc. Integrating the two sides can be done in many ways.
The One-X? So 1X. So basically IX. Let's call it the Xbox 9.
All that fuss over new hardware but not a single unveiling of a new game IP out of any Microsoft studios.
That and the lack of comparison between Xbox One and Xbox One X at their presentation leads me to believe stuff will look just as good if you don't have a 4k TV, and by 2018 only 1/8 US households will even have 4k.
Spending $500 this close to the PS5 when I find I wouldn't benefit much from PS4 Pro seems like a bad decision.
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Funny you say that because when my pc games get a forced driver update every week it is for the microsoft visual c++ libraries
No, those runtime libraries aren't updated at anywhere near that frequency.
I thought it would be a huge seller, but only made that argument so as to be right about something.
I also personally like the idea that at least, if a joystick is crappy and worn out, you can replace the L-controller or R-controller thing.
Goes well with TV-less people. I think in my country, TV got a hit on its head especially when there was the analog switch out (they even made more recently the MPEG2 broadcast switch out) so it used to be 95% people had a TV, most of them only using the antenna, even if it was a small 4/3 CRT in a corner. Now using a TV requires having the right TV hardware and thus many people only have a laptop and/or desktop.
It's also hilarious how TVs are small in absolute volume, but a 32" 16/9 wastes a lot of horizontal space no matter how thin or thick it is.
Why? Only gamers and old people buy desktops, and they probably wouldn't want to be locked in to buying console-compatible graphics cards.