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c48933 No.16780458
Formerly known as Project Scarlett. Coming Holiday 2020.
What do we know about Xbox Series X so far?
>4K resolution at 60FPS, with a possibility of hitting up to 120FPS
>Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) and 8K capability will also be supported
>powered by a custom-designed AMD processor which leverages the "latest Zen 2 and next-generation RDNA architecture."
>hardware-accelerated ray tracing
>GPU boasts Xbox's patented Varial Rate Shading (VRS) technology
>includes SSD for faster game loading times
According to Xbox Wire, this design of Xbox Series X allows the console to deliver four times the processing power of Xbox One X in the most quiet and efficient way. Xbox Series X can be placed vertically or horizontally.
The Xbox Series X controller is mostly similar to the Xbox One controller, with the exception of a brand new D-pad and a new share button placed in the middle of the controller underneath the guide, menu and view buttons. The D-pad for the Xbox Series X controller closely resembles the D-pad on the Xbox One Elite Series 2 controller. This Xbox Series X controller is compatible with Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs.
Xbox Series X aims to be backwards compatible with all Original Xbox and Xbox 360 games that are currently backwards compatible on Xbox One and Xbox Series X should also be backwards compatible with all Xbox One games.
It's rumored that there will be two models of Xbox Series X. One more expensive model with a disc drive which has been revealed, and a cheaper model without a disc drive and is digital only. This cheaper model has yet to be revealed but could be in the cards considering Microsoft found success with the Xbox One S All Digital Edition (Xbone SAD).
What do you make of Xbox Series X? Is Microsoft making the right moves with services like Xbox Game Pass and Xbox All Access? Or you couldn't care less about consoles?
Xbox Wire Source:
http://archive.is/Jvmjm
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39fdff No.16780459
Phil Spencer said that the name would reveal their goals and intentions with this piece of shit. What the fuck could "Series X" even mean, aside for "we're having several models of this and it basically becomes babby's first PC"?
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f53e45 No.16780478
>>16780458
>What do you make of Xbox Series X?
Ugly, boring, and underpowered - just like their games.
>Is Microsoft making the right moves with services like Xbox Game Pass and Xbox All Access?
So long as Microsoft keeps GamePass as a "Digital Rental" service, it's fine. Make sure the games are removed from rotation after a few months to help encourage game sales - preferably physical. Throwing Xcloud into the mix for free (at the moment anyhow) is… alright, I guess. Streaming is inherently broken, so it's nice that they're not making you pay extra for it. The whole thing is a way to shift Xbox Live subscription away from Pay-to-Play Multiplayer to another service that they can charge PC and other platform users for. Granted, it's a bit hilarious at the moment that everybody (even PS4 with the new Minecraft update) gets to play on Xbox Live for free - but Xbox owners are the only ones who have to pay for it. Beyond that, I'd like to see them contract out (or create in-house) a smaller game reproduction company - then drop the price of digital games by $10 unless you opt for a physical copy to be printed and mailed to you. That's a pipe-dream, of course, because they'd just find some way to fuck with the physical copy to make it account/hardware locked. But in general the idea of just being able to buy a physical copy from the digital storefront is something I'd like to see.
>Or you couldn't care less about consoles?
I care a lot less about them than ever before, but there's still some exclusives - especially jap shit and the rare first party title like Gravity Rush or Bloodborne - which necessitate their purchase. Nothing Microsoft offers though, and the only reason to own an Xbox One at this point is for backwards compatibility - which may end up coming to the PC anyhow.
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37bb40 No.16780479
So like, what is this? A new Xbox or just a revision of the Xbone?
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283e86 No.16780484
Interesting choice of design.
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f53e45 No.16780487
>>16780478
One other thing: I get the feeling that Microsoft is going to try to put a Windows 10 virtualization onto the Xbox Series X consoles either baked into the OS or as an app download. If they do this - it could end up being (in a few years and after some price drops) a pretty good all-in-one living-room emulation station. Especially if emulator authors work with the Series X fixed specs and fixed virtualization hardware profile/s to optimize a fork of their emulators to be tweaked specifically to that hardware profile and minimize compatibility issues.
Emulation is nothing that Microsoft could advertise as a feature, but enough word of mouth and ease of use could do the talking for them with nothing but a wink and nudge from Phil. And it's a move that Sony has no capability to counter. Unlike the Playstation brand… nobody really gives much of a shit about developing and supporting Xbox emulators, so it's not like MS would be undercutting into their own market since MS is still the most reliable place to play Xbox Original and 360 games. Meanwhile, the system could potentially also play PSX/PS2/PS3/PSP and maybe even Vita or certain PS4 titles in the future. Even if Sony got a custom version of Linux, they don't have the ability to integrate it, no means to really leverage it, and the ubiquity of PS emulators would only hurt their schemes to sell you games you already own.
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f53e45 No.16780489
>>16780484
But it's not a cube, it's a rectangle.
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27e6b9 No.16780496
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000000 No.16780499
so can we start pushing for the name sexbox now?
>>16780479
it's the next-gen xbox
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b19526 No.16780502
>>16780458
The backwards compatibility is neat. If they fixed the dpad finally that would be great too. Beyond those bits though I genuinely don't care.
>>16780489
An xtangle?
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92eff3 No.16780516
>>16780479
New. Xbone is a Jaguar CPU + GCN GPU. Sexbox has Zen2 + RDNA.
Still,
>4K resolution at 60FPS, with a possibility of hitting up to 120FPS
Bullshit unless they refer to lightweight games or have tricks like checkerboarding in mind. 5700XT (Navi\RDNA1) does about 50FPS on average at 4k while pulling more than 200W.
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37bb40 No.16780523
Is it okay if I buy one to install a fleshlight so I can have sex with it
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820129 No.16780541
>>16780516
>Sexbox
Microsoft gonna be salty as fuck
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820129 No.16780545
>>16780458
Also something that confuses me, will the Sexbox run PC games or will it be Xbox games only.
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055c04 No.16780548
>Sony and Microsoft consoles are now literally branded locked down PCs
>Nintendo consoles are fucking branded tablets
>Retarded autistic normalcattle like Mark literally demanding for new versions of consoles so they can pay up like good goys
>Every single game just simply making it's way to PC in one way or the other
>Even Sony is prepping to make a digital PC store
The absolute fucking state of cucksoles and this industry in general
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1c258a No.16780552
>>16780541
No, I'm pretty sure that was the whole point. Remember how they hoped people would call the xbone "the one" because people referred to their previous console as "the 360?" That backfired horribly, but they're learning. I guess they hired better marketers.
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055c04 No.16780553
>>16780552
>Micropozz
>Admitting that sex sells
Yeah, no
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9284a2 No.16780555
>>16780478
>Nothing Microsoft offers though,
The only exclusive on the Xbone that was worth playing was Crimson Dragon (A game that was released about 6 years ago).
>and the only reason to own an Xbox One at this point is for backwards compatibility
Why not have a 360 or original Xbox for full 100% compatability (Unless online is that important to you)?
>which may end up coming to the PC anyhow.
Officially or do you mean third-party emulators?
>>16780487
>Unlike the Playstation brand… nobody really gives much of a shit about developing and supporting Xbox emulators, so it's not like MS would be undercutting into their own market since MS is still the most reliable place to play Xbox Original and 360 games.
There's actually been reports that have come out stating that M$ prevented the development of ANY Xbox emulator because they sent C&D letters the moment the projects were announced. It's only been in the past year that Xbox emulation has been restarted.
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cb5145 No.16780556
>>16780487
I still don't see why you would need to spend all of that when a PC could do it for probably cheaper. hell even most SBCs are catching up and within a couple of years will be able to ps2, gamecube or dreamcast with pc tier quality. not like theres much worthwhile this generation to want to play anyways
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1c258a No.16780559
>>16780553
Not admitting, but hoping it would stir controversy. "We didn't know it would turn out like this we swear on our mums' lives!"
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0c3e05 No.16780562
>>16780552
>>16780559
>I guess they hired better marketers.
I doubt that jabs along the lines of "It's called a Sexbox because it fucking sucks lol" are their intention.
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5cf5ea No.16780564
if it costs $349, then i'll buy it on day one.
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f53e45 No.16780567
>>16780555
>Officially or do you mean third-party emulators?
One, or the other. As you said, it's not like Xbox emulation on the PC is non-existant. It's just stagnated because there's really no interest in it. But I've heard rumors here and there for a while now that Microsoft plans to make Xbox Original and 360 titles playable on Windows 10 PC. Though, admittedly, most of those rumors were from when Microsoft were still trying to make the Windows Store into a Steam competitor before pivoting into the Xbox App and GamePass.
>There's actually been reports that have come out stating that M$ prevented the development of ANY Xbox emulator because they sent C&D letters the moment the projects were announced.
I wouldn't think that Microsoft would have any legal ground by which to halt emulator development, considering that Sony already took the matter to court and the only way they could "win" was by buying up Connectix and bleeding Bleem out with legal fees. That's why commercial emulators are not viable, but home-brew emulators even for current gen systems like the Switch are open season. But legally, the precedent is that emulation is 100% legal and Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo can all suck a fat dick provided there's no actual copyright infringement.
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9284a2 No.16780570
>>16780556
>not like theres much worthwhile this generation to want to play anyways
Here's all the games on my wishlist for 8th gen home consoles (Once I remove remaster/remakes, collections, and games on seventh gen systems; and I only own a 3DS, Vita, and Wii U as far as eighth gen):
<Code Name: S.T.E.A.M.
<Dream Trigger 3D
<Monster Hunter 4G
<Nano Assault
<Senran Kagura Burst
<Yo-kai Watch
<Gravity Daze
<Killzone: Mercenary
<Phantasy Star Nova
<Uppers
<Valkyrie Drive: Bhikkhuni
<Aiyoku no Eustia: Angel's Blessing
<Army Corps of Hell)
<Valkyria: Azure Revolution
<Devil's Third
<FAST Racing Neo
<Rodea: the Sky Soldier
<Energy Hook
<Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise
<Project Nimbus: Code Mirai
<Shadow of the Beast
<Crimson Dragon
<Cuphead
<Elex
<Fade to Silence
<Flying Tigers: Shadows Over China
<Kingdom Come: Deliverance
<Tokyo 42
<Astral Chain
<Deadbolt
<Fit Boxing
<Icey
<Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight
<Monster Hunter XX
<Snake Pass
<Sonic Mania Plus
<Xenoblade 2
<Astebreed
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f53e45 No.16780571
>>16780556
You wouldn't. I wouldn't. But there's a lot of people out there who just don't like the idea of gaming on a PC, are too mired in console war bullshit, or are just too stoopid and scared to get a PC. And it's not a small market.
If Microsoft can give them a safe sandbox environment to tinker with without the fear of messing something up or getting viruses - they might be more apt to dip their toes in, and there's a lot of people who don't mind the idea of a HTPC but don't want to actually put a PC in their livingroom.
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9284a2 No.16780572
>>16780570
> 8th gen home consoles
Remove the "home" part of that phrase.
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9284a2 No.16780575
>>16780567
>I wouldn't think that Microsoft would have any legal ground by which to halt emulator development
It doesn't matter. Even if you know you're going to win, do you honestly want to be taken to court, wasting both time and money, over a project that you're doing in your bedroom?
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f53e45 No.16780576
>>16780575
If that were a viable strategy, Nintendo would have jumped on that a long time ago the same way they do with fan-games and even Youtube content for awhile there.
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055c04 No.16780579
>>16780559
>Implying
Nigger these are the guys that forced feminist bullshit on Halo, are filled with Pajeet, Chinks and women and are censoring all of Xbox Live.
They would do nothing of the sort, they're squeaky clean corporate scum.
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f1e97f No.16780581
>>16780458
>4K resolution at 60FPS, with a possibility of hitting up to 120FPS
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9284a2 No.16780583
>>16780576
>If that were a viable strategy, Nintendo would have jumped on that a long time ago
Who's to say they didn't? N64 emulation first came out the DAY the system released. Then again, there is also the fact that Nintendo probably didn't want to kill the market too early because they didn't have the ROMs their older games and saw a some potential. And, the only reason why Sony went after VGS and Bleem is because they created a commercial product that was a direct threat to the PS1 and it's game licensing.
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faf6f5 No.16780647
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f2f96f No.16780710
>>16780458
Looks like a boring PC tower.
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dd77f3 No.16780717
>>16780458
Why does this post sound like an advertisement?
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70a815 No.16780768
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84bf0f No.16780789
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c48933 No.16780795
Invidious embed. Click thumbnail to play.
Do we have a list somewhere of what games are definitely going to be available on Xbox Series X/PlayStation 5 so far? I believe Ubisoft announced that they delayed some of their games to the next fiscal year, so stuff like Gods and Monsters, Watch Dogs Legion, Rainbow Six Quarantine, Skull & Bones, Beyond Good and Evil 2 etc will definitely be on next generation consoles.
Halo Infinite will be available on Xbox Series X day one, but it's also going to be available on Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs as well. They have to get that game running on the original Xbox One models…so it should be interesting to see how Microsoft and 343i handle cross play between Xbox generations as well as PC, and what performance will be like between the Xbox Series X version and the original Xbox One version of Halo Infinite. We've seen Halo Infinite running in engine on slipspace engine and visually just going off the recent two trailers for Halo Infinite so far it doesn't look all that impressive. I was more blown away by how Halo 4 looked on Xbox 360 and I think that Halo 4 looks a lot better than many games which released in the last seven years.
Hellblade II: Senua's Saga looks much more visually striking compared to what's been shown of Halo Infinite so far. Hellblade II won't come to Xbox One but it'll be on Windows 10 PCs and Xbox Series X. Then again the first Hellblade was a very linear game with rudimentary combat and Sesame Street tier puzzle solving and Hellblade II will be more of the same, linear story driven game. For Ninja Theory to release a game like Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice while they were independent was somewhat impressive but if it was a Microsoft first party studio making a game like Hellblade back in 2017 it would feel more like a console launch title/tech demo coming to console four years after launch. That's what Hellblade II looks like. A tech demo and nothing more. Hellblade II might not even launch with Xbox Series X. Could come early 2021 or later.
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b4d65a No.16780828
>>16780458
>What do you make of Xbox Series X?
I like the cooling aspect, the hardware specs seem fine, and they are trying to make things backwards compatibility centred– very important in an age where yesterdays games were significantly better than today's.
What I don't like is Microsoft's inability to read the audience wants, never have they even asked. How stupid is this industry where a company can put out over social media questionnaires and surveys to find out what is wanted, because that is what gave rise to the free to play model– if there are no good games worth buying, better to play the free ones.
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8c6639 No.16780868
>>16780458
The Sexbox continues the trend of fucking retarded naming schemes for consoles. Can't wait for next Christmas when all the parents buy the wrong console for their kids. You'd think that the Wii U would have taught the industry a lesson.
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d52ca7 No.16780872
>>16780868
Why couldn't they stick with the name 'Xbox Scarlett"?
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e3d6c8 No.16780877
>>16780458
The biggest shock to me is the optical drive.
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678520 No.16780885
Is it really the Xbox One 2? I'm a bit surprised that they're apparently going to use the same controller again. I was hoping for them to make a new one with a dpad that doesn't suck ass.
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26086e No.16780976
>>16780562
They know people are going to make fun of the name, but "Sexbox" doesn't sound immediately retarded like "Xbone" does. They can also claim anyone making fun of them is an immature incel with sex on the brain, which fits right into their public image >>16780579 mentioned.
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c8c86a No.16781105
>>16780885
expect to pay 150 bucks for the new elite controller that doesn't suck ass.
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d7468e No.16781108
>project scorpio
>project scarlett
why do they insist on these dumbass names that sound like something a ten year old in his edge phase would think up
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11a4ef No.16781114
So how backwards compatible is this rectangle?
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11a4ef No.16781116
>>16781114
I mean like can you use OG xbox discs or are they gonna make you rebuy them on the store
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e4bcca No.16781117
Would it be worth getting a sexbox won or the series sex for the Fission emulator?
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717c85 No.16781125
The only thing I'm looking for is the backwards compatibility.
I wanna play blinx 2.
Yes I'm aware it's WAY too tutorial heavy, but fuck.
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717c85 No.16781130
>>16781116
Considering with the 360 and the bone, odds are you're going to be able to use OG disks after downloading a new binary for the game.
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facb83 No.16781157
>>16780458
Reminds me of this piece of shit. I wonder if it melts your brain and body.
>those specs
>4K resolution at 60FPS, with a possibility of hitting up to 120FPS
Ok. Haven't these been the standard since 2015? I can't tell if I'm supposed to be impressed by the performance since I can't notice any differences like I used to do. But besides that, what are the games that are gonna run on it? The same formula of generic shooter, generic racing game, generic ubisoft open world farcry copy and indie games that are 5 years old? Thanks, I might go and dust off my ps2, as soon as I learn how to run games off a hard drive.
>>16781117
>the name is cropped
If I was the janitor there I'd find where this slug lives and pour cleaning acid down their throat.>>16781117
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facb83 No.16781158
>>16781157
Fuck. Fix the site already.
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e4bcca No.16781167
>>16781157
>their
You can tell clearly by the stream that it's a guy and what if he tries to piss on you when you're at his home?
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facb83 No.16781175
>>16781167
I assumed it was a she from the attitude, writing style and the the cropped avatar resembling a woman. But you're you're probably right, I don't think girls piss like that.
>what if he tries to piss on you when you're at his home?
Wait for him to finish like a like a sport, then pour the cleaning agent on him.
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53d6ae No.16781178
>>16780647
kek
>>16780872
Presumably because Scarlett Johanson isn't sexy anymore so by the time it releases they need to make their entendre more obvious.
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0a60e8 No.16781216
>>16780489
It's a parallelepiped, you illiterate mongrel.
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d89204 No.16781217
>>16780710
Reminds me of Silverstone FT03-mini.
>>16781157
>Haven't these been the standard since 2015?
Not the standard, but the goal, meaning it's a wet fart in practice. Kinda like how 1080p60 was the goal for OG PS4/Xbone at release.
>I can't tell if I'm supposed to be impressed by the performance
Sexbone's performance is still up in the air until they post actual specs. Architectures alone don't really mean all that much.
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000000 No.16781290
>>16780458
It is from Microshit, so it will fail.
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39fdff No.16781306
>>16781290
You say that, and yet not a single Microsoft console has failed, unless "didn't win first place" counts as a failure. The Xbox sold better than the Gamecube, 360 better than PS3 and Xbone better than Wii U. The Xbox was enough to start a new console brand, the 360 was a monumental success, the Xbone still sold 30-40 million despite all the jokes about it.
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52cdff No.16781336
>>16781306
>360 better than PS3
>Xbone better than Wii U
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a119d5 No.16781348
>>16780458
>new controller design
>D-pad is similar to elite controller (there's a newer model out already)
>now has share button
>compatible with xbone and Windows 10 (maybe GNU slash Linux?)
Looks like a new mold is used for this version. How does the Duke D-pad hold up in the current year?
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51c8e9 No.16781352
>>16781348
Man I've always like the 360 controllers and the xbone controllers, but FUCK paying $70 dollars for that shit. I really hope the new ones are priced better like the ps4 controllers are
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128850 No.16781355
>>16781352
The xbox controllers are more durable though.
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000000 No.16781360
>>16781348
the duke is still the best fucking controller ever made, the dpad was actually unique and works just fine.
>flood
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4a1b81 No.16781394
>>16781175
>I assumed it was a she from the attitude, writing style and the the cropped avatar resembling a woman. But you're you're probably right, I don't think girls piss like that.
Maybe it's a tranny, they combine the worst of both men and women into one. Or it's a woman using one of those pissing adapters.
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820129 No.16781410
>>16781348
I just hope we're able to remap the share button
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c48933 No.16781424
Ever since Phil Spencer took over as the head of Xbox it's been much more pleasant and I think we really started to see changes to the way Microsoft views Xbox starting in 2016 with the release of Quantum Break. I remember if you preordered Quantum Break on the Microsoft store you would get the Xbox One version of the game and the PC version of the game at no additional cost, and this would eventually morph into their Xbox Play Anywhere program. Buy a game once on the Microsoft store and you would have access to both the console and PC version. Most if not all first party Xbox games supported Xbox Play Anywhere and still do. Now Microsoft is getting a lot of their games on Steam, like Gears 5 and Halo MCC, more options to buy and play their games where you want and you're not just limited to their Microsoft store.
Then in early 2019 things radically changed with so many studio acquisitions and then Microsoft Studios completely rebranded into Xbox Game Studios. Always Microsoft this, Microsoft Game Studios that, never would have expected them to rebrand to Xbox Game Studios. They're looking at the Xbox brand in a whole new way. It's not just a console anymore, it's really becoming a service and everything is encompassing the Xbox namesake, Xbox console companion app on PC, Xbox Game Studios, Xbox Game Pass (console and PC), Project XCloud game streaming service, etc.
The first party lineup is fairly strong and there's some decent variety so hopefully they can get out of that Halo/Gears/Forza rut soon enough. Sea of Thieves has been promising with all these new content updates and I like that Flight Simulator is being resurrected. I wonder how much of Flight Simulator 2020 has to be streamed because there's no way you're going to install all of that on a console.
<343 Industries
Halo Infinite confirmed to be releasing Holiday 2020 for Xbox One, Xbox Series X and PC, Halo PC ports being added to Halo MCC
>Compulsion Games
These guys have been quiet ever since We Happy Few came out in 2018, not sure what Microsoft sees in this team?
<Double Fine
Psychonauts 2 coming sometime next year, Tim needed that Microsoft money really badly. Haven't kept up with that Fig campaign
>inXile Entertainment
Wasteland 3 coming May 2020, Wasteland 2 was alright but underwhelming, hopefully 3 is an improvement
>Mojang
More Minecraft updates and Minecraft Dungeons, Minecraft Minecraft Minecraft
<Ninja Theory
Bleeding Edge 4v4 hero shooter coming early 2020. Hellblade II coming to Xbox Series X at some point, don't really like this team with the exception of their Enslaved game
<Obsidian Entertainment
Once great, now not so sure. Grounded is coming to Xbox One and PC sometime in 2020, looks kinda weird, some kind of lethargic survival crafting game
>Playground Games
Released a free battle royale mode for Forza Horizon 4 two days ago, possibly working on a Fable reboot
>Rare
Doing a good job supporting Sea of Thieves, adding a new tall tale story mission and firebombs last month. Everwild looks ok but don't know much about that game, might come to Xbox One
<The Coalition
Gears 5 came out and was very underwhelming, Gears 6 in development for Xbox Series X, yawn. Gears Tactics XCOM-ish spin-off being developed by someone else?
>The Initiative
Lots of big names attached to this new studio built from the ground up but there's nothing to show for it yet
>Turn 10 Studios
Forza Motorsport 8 could be a launch title for Xbox Series X
>Undead Labs
State of Decay 3 in the works?
>World's Edge
Age of Empires III Definitive Edition coming in 2020, Age of Empires IV being co-developed with Relic Entertainment
>Xbox Game Studios Publishing
Works with some third party studios like Asobo on Microsoft Flight Simulator, Dlala and their Battletoads reboot, Moon Studios and Ori, Studio MDHR and Cuphead DLC
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000000 No.16781438
>>16781424
I do enjoy Phil compared to the other industry heads, I'd place him just below if not on par with Reggie in terms of caring about the userbase and being fun. Pretty sure they're putting a lot of their stuff on Steam because nobody gives a shit about the Microsoft Store no matter how hard they push it, people have been using .exe files for two decades now and they're not about to learn something entirely new when the old way still works just fine. They're still making sure all those games go through them either way (MCC on Steam still requires a Microsoft account and goes through their servers via Steam's servers because fuck you). I still can't think of any games that I care about on ecksbawks that are already on PC since this place has made me a cynical bastard, whenever I see a new game trailer instead of thinking "wow this looks fun", instead it goes "can't wait to see how broken it is and how long until they fuck it up with microtransactions so I can laugh at them". You people have ruined me even though it's true 99% of the time.
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820129 No.16781439
>>16781424
I generally agree, although the thing is with Phil is that while he does care for his job, I don't really think he grew up with gaming like the rest of us, but rather he's a soccer dad that genuinely enjoys games because he enjoys what he does. Like his strategy with Game Pass and focusing on the PC market instead of some console war bullshit that they weren't going to win was the right move.
That said some of the studios they've bought over the years are puzzling additions like Double Fine, Obsidian Entertainment. and Ninja Theory. I do think buying out Minecraft was a smart move in the long run. In a sense Xbox seems to be going through an identity crisis with itself. While there are a bunch of really smart moves, there are also people in the company pushing for really dumb shit like buying out their friends and pushing the whole "diversity" spiel after it's probably a fact at this point that 80% of the gaming demographic looks at "diversity" in the same way as "we want the call of duty audience".
Additionally I saw some diversity higher up bitch about the THQ Nordic AMA, which is never a good sign since a general rule is that anyone who commented on it, is a fucking asshole since THQN did nothing wrong in wanting to communicate with its user base. THQN probably needed to apologize to keep those relations in check, especially since Sony is known for being a bunch of hardcore bullies towards developers and they needed to claim ignorance. That said it seems that Microsoft doesn't really have any direction for the Xbox brand, but rather will use it as the go-to gaming platform for microsoft gaming products. Which I think is fine, although I'm hoping the Sexbox also supports multiple game fronts like GOG, Steam, and Epic Games Store, since Microsoft knows it's not really in a war against Sony and Nintendo anymore, they might as well mix a steam machine with an Xbox One.
While Phil may be extremely lax with the company in the wrong way, I think it's miles better than what Don Mattrick was doing with the Xbox One and the Xbox 360, where he'd only push it as an AAA machine, which is ironically what Sony is trying to do with the PS5. So hopefully the Sexbox will outdo the Playstation 5 this generation and will give Sony a swift kick in the nuts.
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820129 No.16781442
>>16781438
Well Reggie had experience with Pizza Hut and if I recall correctly has done deals with Nintendo before he joined Nintendo of America, not only that but he's likely done training before he joined Nintendo since Nintendo is a 100+ year old Japanese company and they must be absolutely ruthless. With Phil he's a fun business man like reggie, but he also seems a bit naive when it comes to certain games and the niche market. I would argue that he should've been targeting Japanese studios before western ones, and now THQ Nordic is probably going to buy out all the good Japanese companies and may leave Microsoft in the dust because of it. Like the Japanese studios wanna have as much reach as possible while playing it extremely safe. While THQ Nordic might offer less money than microsoft, they also provide a larger reach by offering content on PC, Playstation, Nintendo Switch, Stadia, and basically every platform under the sun. It's what THQ Nordic usually does when they're in control, hell fucking Darksiders 3 was on GOG for christ sake.
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055c04 No.16781492
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51c8e9 No.16781494
>>16781355
also the start and back buttons aren't as fucking retardedly placed as the ps4 controller. I fucking hate how on the ps4 controller i have to avoid hitting the touch pad or itll move the mouse.
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f53e45 No.16781509
>>16781438
>I'd place him just below if not on par with Reggie in terms of caring about the userbase and being fun.
Do it faggot. You know you need Japanese support. Sony's dropping the ball and pandering to faggots and censors, forcing [[[Western Values]]] on the Japanese. Let them be free.
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f53e45 No.16781512
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9284a2 No.16781513
>>16781509
>Sony's dropping the ball and pandering to faggots and censors, forcing [[[Western Values]]] on the Japanese.
Speaking of which, DoA6 is still receiving censorship for God knows why: http://archive.ph/Q94hQ>>16781509
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055c04 No.16781516
>>16781509
Microsoft is even more pozzed you goddamned retard.
They're censoring Xbox Live and all their designs and game are catered towards niggers and San Fran gutter scum.
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0f4063 No.16781529
>>16781442
For all we know Microsoft could just buy out THQNordic or simply make a deal with them "we give you money, you port the games to sexbox as well". Why buy out ten Japanese studios, when this one western publisher already has twelve.
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c48933 No.16781647
>>16781509
>You know you need Japanese support
Japan was and still is one of Microsoft's biggest hurdles for the Xbox market so I don't know what they're going to try and do to get the attention of the Japanese audience. I know Yakuza series is finally coming to Xbox, Yakuza 0, Yakuza Kiwami and Yakuza Kiwami 2 will all be on Xbox Game Pass early 2020, most of the main Final Fantasy games from VII onwards will be on Xbox Game Pass soon with the exception of XIV, though Phil Spencer says he's trying to bring XIV to Xbox, Phantasy Star Online 2 is getting a North American release on Xbox One and PC mid 2020, NieR Automata came to Xbox One, more Shonen games like One Piece are finally coming to Xbox (Pirate Warriors 4) etc.
Microsoft doesn't necessarily need to kowtow to the Japs but their Xbox-Jap relationship was much better during the original Xbox and early Xbox 360 era, especially when Microsoft published those Mistwalker RPGs like Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, getting shmups like Deathsmiles and so on.
It's too bad Darkside's Phantom Dust reboot and PlatinumGames' Scalebound never came to fruition but it's probably best that such games ended up getting cancelled. Of course Microsoft ended up quickly remastering Phantom Dust and they ended up releasing it for free on Xbox One and PC back in 2017 as an apology. That was one of the best moves Microsoft made during the Xbox One console generation and Phantom Dust is so good the rerelease remains one of Microsoft's best games they published in the last 6 or 7 years. Too bad the multiplayer is dead even though it's free to play.
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63324d No.16781651
>>16781117
he must really hate mustard, he's practically pissing it. either that or he needs to drink more water
>>16780458
when does the hexbox series hex saga start?
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9284a2 No.16781674
>>16781647
>It's too bad Darkside's Phantom Dust reboot and PlatinumGames' Scalebound never came to fruition but it's probably best that such games ended up getting cancelled.
But, Microsoft was the reason both of those games were cancelled.
They kept demanding Darkside and Platinum to add more and more to game and expecting it all to be accomplished on the same budget, making promises to the public that the developers never actually said, and (Then) pulled the rug out from under them due to "not meeting demands" and caused both companies to be left in financial ruin (At least Platinum har Nier to cover their ass).
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a35e12 No.16781710
>>16780458
>It's just a PC tower cut in half
>With what will likely be half the power of a similarly priced PC
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6f28ad No.16783066
>>16780571
This kind of people will never mess with third party emulators or any other kind of shady means for getting content, though. They just buy the *-mini emulation box consoles, digital store re-releases of classic games, and watch movies and series through Netflix.
So if the new Xbox is secretly meant to be a revival of a modded OG Xbox, that's going to have zero appeal for them. I might perhaps end up getting one myself eventually if that's the case, though.
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c48933 No.16783085
>>16781674
Microsoft was certainly part of the reason. I followed news for the development of the Phantom Dust reboot, I remember the E3 2014 CGI trailer with the Halo Wars tease and nobody working at Darkside had a hand in making that trailer, some of the vertical slice gameplay that was shown and when the reboot was conceived it was multiplayer only, focusing on the eSports crowd, which is why I think it should've been cancelled in the first place. Then you had people like Ken Lobb I think it was, who went around giving interviews saying stuff like the Phantom Dust reboot was going to be like a 40 hour JRPG. Too much mixed messaging, not a clear vision for the game. It was never going to work out.
Scalebound was a situation where Platinum wanted to make an action RPG unlike anything they've made before. The singleplayer footage from Gamescom 2015 was a little promising despite the poor performance, then they also announced the four player mutliplayer which wasn't shown off until E3 2016 and that looked much worse. Platinum was unable to deliver Microsoft's increasing demands and that E3 2016 footage was very rough. Microsoft might continue to renew the Scalebound trademark and there's some potential to revisit the IP in the future but I don't think the Scalebound trademark has been renewed in about two years.
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c48933 No.16783088
>>16780458
According to Business Insider, the fourth generation of Xbox is just going to be referred to as "Xbox" and not Xbox Series X.
http://archive.is/2h7mv
>"The name we're carrying forward to the next generation is simply Xbox," a Microsoft representative told Business Insider. "And at The Game Awards you saw that name come to life through the Xbox Series X."Like the first Xbox generation, the next one is simply named "Xbox." It's a basic rebranding, but a meaningful one that could help to simplify the Xbox line for interested consumers. It also clarifies Microsoft's intention with its console line. "Similar to what fans have seen with previous generations, the name 'Xbox Series X' allows room for additional consoles in the future," the Microsoft rep told us.
So yeah…
>Xbox
>Xbox 360
>Xbox One
>Xbox
Xbox Series X is just going to be one of the models for the fourth generation Xbox and presumably there will be more, perhaps another console will release in 2022 or 2023 and the concept of console generations will be eradicated. That's what Microsoft said they wanted to do for a while anyway, get rid of console generations and whatnot.
Forza Motorsport 8 is confirmed to be in development, in addition to Hellblade II, so these are both definitely going to be Xbox Series X games. Halo Infinite and Rare's Everwild will also be on Xbox Series X but I think an Xbox One release is still planned for those two games.
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dd77f3 No.16783099
>>16783088
Wasn't part of the reason the Wii U failed was that people were confused about the name? You'd think Microsoft would take notes. You should tell them it's a bad name, Mr. Marketer.
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1842b9 No.16783130
>brand new D pad
Literally my only complaint about the current Xbox controller, well besides the price.
>backwards compatibility
Holy shit thank you, I am almost sold.
<60fps@4k
Gonna have to press X to doubt in that one Jim. PC games even with high tier stuff struggle to run games at 4k even today. I really think the 4k shit is stupid, since I barely notice the difference between that at 1440p.
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61b3ee No.16783392
>Xbox Live is filled with prepubescent children
>New Xbox is called either the Xbox Sex or Sexbox
>At some point the parent of the prepubescent children is going to overhear their child calling it the Sexbox or Xbox Sex
>Parent will likely flip out, force them to sell it and buy them a Switch
>The irony is that the Switch has a growing library of lewd games
Imagine the salt
Or hell,
>Kids start calling it the Sexbox with their friends at school
>Teachers overhear it
>Teachers are sometimes legaly required to report certain concerns to DCF
>DCF pays a visit and sees the only games they have are rated M
>Parents find out they could get reported to DCF for buying their 11 year old a the newest Xbox
>Parents again stop buying their kids the systems and stop buying them games rated M out of fear of losing their kids to DCF
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9284a2 No.16783405
>>16783392
Anon, kids were swearing like a sailor when CoD was the biggest thing in the seventh gen, and that didn't stop anything.
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c42df1 No.16783417
>>16783130
Well, the xbox has the power of a 1080 and an underclocked Ryzen 3600. Titles can probably (barely) run at 60 with the bare minimum optimization.
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055c04 No.16783434
>>16783088
>They're finally going full Iphone
AND CONSOLENIGGERS WILL DEFEND IT
reminder that Mark would and will pay for a new Nintendo every year
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c1ff02 No.16783435
>>16783392
>Xbox Live is filled with prepubescent children
>At some point the parent of the prepubescent children is going to overhear their child calling it the Sexbox or Xbox Sex
9284a2 has a point. XBL being
synonymous with squeaky voices swearing on dey mum that they ran a train on your dad has been a normalfag meme for more than a decade. If anything, it drew parallels between xbox and poor parenting.
>>16783088
>perhaps another console will release in 2022 or 2023 and the concept of console generations will be eradicated
Does Satya think MS is like Apple and has an army of paypigs who will happily buy a new Sexbone edition every two years for 349$ (and that's a generous estimate) just to play TamTam's shit? Tell him someone played a prank on him and replaced cocaine in his stash with ground up lead paint.
>>16783417
Sources on specs? All I see are architectures. A 3600, even significantly underclocked and undervolted, will still pull about 30W, and most of that will come from the tiny core chiplet. That's a lot of concentrated heat in an enclosure as small as that since you don't have much space for massive heatsinks, and assuming you don't want a console louder than a vacuum cleaner. AMD mentioned a custom Zen2-based design. They still haven't released laptop-oriented Zen2 CPUs to my knowledge. Sexbone's CPU should logically be an offshoot of those.
As for GPU, they mentioned something RDNA2-based. Navi cards like 5700, which are RDNA1, barely have 4k@50FPS while shitting out hundreds of watts. RDNA2 can't be much more power efficient, so expect a smaller chip and worse performance than pics related. If they actually go for 4k60, they will have to go for obscene image quality compromises which will likely defeat the point of 4k.
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055c04 No.16783436
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>>16783435
>If they actually go for 4k60
Won't happen
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f53e45 No.16783463
>>16783435
>Does Satya think MS is like Apple and has an army of paypigs who will happily buy a new Sexbone edition every two years for 349$
I think there's a good chance that the "mid gen refreshes" were kind of an outlier last generation. A confluence of extremely shitty hardware even by console standards, with the popularization of two key meme technologies. 4k and VR. Even if Sony hadn't lead the charge with the PS4Pro, which they needed to make PSVR even minimally acceptable, Microsoft was desperate for a soft-reboot of their system to start digging their way out of the hole the Xbox One launch left. Overall I think the "Pro" systems are simply too expensive to engineer and market to have one in development every three years, and even if they do continue with that plan - the first major flop is going to make everyone gunshy. They're not exactly catching the market on fire as it is since most people are still going to go for the cheapest option which has the games they want to play. And I don't really see the seeds of what could be "the next big thing" which would require a power boost being planted just yet. The biggest push would be competition from the PC market, which is bigger than the entire console market and growing in both parity to console offerings as well as it's own exclusives. The thing is, most PCs, even gaming PCs, aren't that powerful… so while the overall game market is enormous, the actual segment of that market that consoles are competing is only a fraction of that. And despite HTPCs being a thing for forever - most people still would rather plop a shitbox console in the living-room and keep their PC at their desk. So there is substantial overlap as well.
I don't really see where the push for a mid-gen refresh would even come from next generation, and the whole idea just seems like a big waste of time and money for console manufacturers. I think they're just keeping the door open to the possibility if they do need to, and aren't willing to throw current refresh customers under the bus on the eve of next-gen by telling them that it was all a marketing scam because they cut corners on their initial launch systems. If they don't follow through on the refresh formula, I doubt they'll even announce it. You just won't hear anything about it ever again, except maybe as a footnote to an earning call in some financial blog.
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67f538 No.16783477
>>16783088
The real reason they rebrand products like this is to erase the past.
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820129 No.16783478
>>16783434
This is an Xbox thread not a Nintendo thread
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820129 No.16783481
>>16781529
True, but why would THQ Nordic take the deal when they've been constantly growing? If anything a Microsoft buy out could hurt their business rather than expand it. Like they're actually listening to what gamers want and are producing quality content. Even spin offs like Darksiders Genesis are pretty solid for a low budget title. While companies like EA, 2K and Activision are focused on short term crazy profits, THQN is smart enough to realize that things like microtransactions and half assed DLC will only hurt them in the long run, and are avoiding it. Although one complaint I have with them is that they don't keep Deep Silver on a leash, but the main thing is that they just want developers to create what they want to create, and that's been helping them grow long term. Like I'm disappointed that they had to throw us under a bus, but I understand why they needed to do it as well. Mainly in order to not be seen as a "GamerGate" company as to alienate people.
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ec2f63 No.16783558
>>16783463
>Microsoft was desperate for a soft-reboot of their system to start digging their way out of the hole the Xbox One launch left
That's because their initial design was stupid. PS4 and Xbone had ostensibly similar hardware configurations: an 8 core Jaguar uarch CPU with a GCN2-based GPU and 8GB of shared RAM. The CPUs ran at different frequencies, although the difference was small — 1.6 vs 1.75GHz. But the PS4 GPU had 1152CUs, 72TMUs, and 32ROPs versus 768, 48, and 16 for the Xbone GPU, while their frequencies were comparable (800 vs 853MHz). PS4 also had GDDR5 for its unified RAM, while Xbone had conventional DDR3 plus that 32MB ESRAM buffer. The GPU needs the bandwidth, and the ESRAM chip offered more of it than GDDR5 in PS4, but 32 megs is nothing, and DDR3 is much slower bandwidth-wise. MS tried to be cute and ended up with a more complex design than competition, and the latter had a 40-50% more capable GPU with a better RAM config. So PS4 showed better performance in multiplats, and Xbone need a refresh to stop the humiliation.
>Overall I think the "Pro" systems are simply too expensive to engineer to have one in development every three years
Both just use AMD-engineered and TSMC-built APUs. Sure, Sony and MS get custom designs and have their say regarding those, but Jaguar, GCN2/4, and now Zen2 and RDNA have all started out as conventional stuff, so it's not like the custom designs will be a massive departure. Jaguar was x86 for tablets and low power laptops, Zen2 is x86 from desktops to big dick enterprise like EPYC server CPUs, and GCN/RDNA are just AMD GPUs since 2011. These aren't special snowflake ASICs. The updated Xbone was notable for competely switching its memory config, but PS4 Pro is basically a GPU refresh. They aren't tremendously expensive to engineer because they're basically boutique PCs with some bells and whistles. Think Apple.
>market
That's a problem. Because they're not Apple.
>The thing is, most PCs, even gaming PCs, aren't that powerful
According to Steam hardware survey, which is a shit source, but there isn't a better one, a GTX1060 is the most popular discrete GPU today. And 1920x1080 is the most popular resolution. A 1060 is 3.5 years old and still offers close to 60FPS on average in modern AAA at 1080p. The problem is that recently released RX5500(RDNA1) has only slightly better performance for similar price with similar power draw. Moore's law is almost dead, and all the big or rapid performance advancements now will cost power draw because node shrinks are much more difficult than before. That's a problem for consoles, they can't handle 300W of heat output.
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000000 No.16783698
>>16783558
Listen to this guy
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0f4063 No.16783866
>>16783463
I believe it will be a repeat of the previous generations, in that it lasted almost twice at much, because of the recession from 2008. They launched Kinect and Move to try and extend the life of their consoles, but overall did not make a new console after five years, which was the average console cycle back then.
I believe a recession is really close, maybe next year just in time for the election, and that it will be worse from that of 2008. n this case, I am not even sure how well the sales will be for the Sexbox or the PS5, but believe they will neither try to make a Pro version, but rather expand the lifecycle, as the first few year or two will be marked by poor sales, both on hardware(console sales) and software(game sales).
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d2e14f No.16784812
Xbox next would have been a better name
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