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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".
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.
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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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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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This time around you guys got lucky. The Xbox One X is manufactured in Australia and the price increase for the USA is because they need to add another GPU to put the image right side up.
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Think of this as the next-generation Xbox, because that is what it is.
We're entering a new era for the consoles, in which they are *truly* nothing more than x64 PCs. Every generation will just have a faster x64 CPU, and a faster 3D chip from AMD/Nvidia.
The advantage of this is that backwards-compatibility is assured for a LONG time. Plus, Microsoft and Sony are both pushing developers to make their games work on both NEW and OLD hardware, meaning that a game designed for the Xbox One X will work on the plain-old Xbox One, with reduced graphical quality.
Like I said, they're going to be just like PCs, but cheaper and more locked-down.
Basically, MS and Sony realized that developing all-new hardware has been a waste of time and money for them, and by opening up the market with backwards-and-forwards compatibility, they can keep selling ALL games indefinitely, which means they get their license fees for all those old games, too.
Honestly, I think this is all an attempt by Sony and MS to cash-in on the console market before it completely disappears in the next decade or so. PCs and phones are getting cheaper and better all the time, and it's getting harder-and-harder to justify owning a console for anyone that isn't REALLY into video games.
The Xbox One XXX will finally make VR mainstream
Microsoft is also now starting to sell their XBox titles in the Windows 10 App Store to run on Windows 10 desktops. For about the same price as the Xbox versions. It lets them have something non-pathetic in the Windows 10 App Store and as you said, they are merging the XBox into being the same as a Windows 10 box.
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.
They should first hit 60fps and 1080p without upscaling and perhaps then talk about supersampling stuff.
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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.