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Xbox Series X: A Closer Look at the Technology Powering the Next Generation
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The resume feature isn't doing anything for me - I never have that urgent a desire to play a game, and save points are frequent in modern design.
It seems like a game focused machine, and credit to Microsoft for avoiding gimmicks, but I'm still looking for more out of next-gen. I'm interested in seeing if they can provide a seamless local cloud gaming experience with the Series X, as that could be it.
It seems like a game focused machine, and credit to Microsoft for avoiding gimmicks, but I'm still looking for more out of next-gen. I'm interested in seeing if they can provide a seamless local cloud gaming experience with the Series X, as that could be it.
For context they didn't reveal the Xbox 1X specs until mid May back in 2017, they must be insanely confident.
I think that would be suicide, and I think Microsoft knows it, too.
Yep. PS5 will no doubt be the same just a different type of proprietary. I am assuming the fact that you can still connect up external hdds that you can store games (possibly Xbox One games backwards) and run them in native mode.
We're really back to using memory cards to expand storage? Coming full circle in a way I guess!
Isn't the current Xbox One X using as much or more than that for the OS? I don't buy it.
Give me all this gen games with max setting and steady 60fps and I'm buying this without even looking at the new games.
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This the info I needed! I take my console down a lot so I needed to know this! 😳😳
It feels like no matter how fast of a PC NVME SSD you have, the Xbox might have the advantage if they make sure BC games boot faster. And that quick resume seems really slick too.
Read speeds are too slow. I don't think you can buy external drives that match this spec.
expect larger memory cards to be available over the generation.
I have 2x4tb + 1 native on my Xbox one X. And I use 8/9tb. I have a lot of game. I don't know how this will translate on this new system
They run about 180$ or so right now, good ones at least
MS seems to have partnered with seagate though, probably getting very good prices on the base components and modifying them in house
system will probably be 500$
Yeah... not too sure about this one. And if this means you *have* to use proprietary NVMe for the entire gen, expect prices to stay high. Remember Vita memory cards?
You won't be able to play series X games without their proprietary card, you can play everything else though
The cards will probably be about 100$ i'm guessing if they want to be competitive with PC NVMe prices... however it's proprietary so who knows
good stuff. Got to hand it to MS for actually being pretty transparent what is in this thing. I am still not very interested in the games MS releases, but the console is looking impressive.
Frustrated with lack of info from Sony. I don't think they are doing themselves any favours to be honest.
Frustrated with lack of info from Sony. I don't think they are doing themselves any favours to be honest.
Reads like for BC, XBox One stuff you can still use regular external HDDs?
Is it Suicide though if MS has a cheaper next gen option with Lockhart?
90% sure I am going Xbox first next gen. I wish I hadn't watched anything only because I want it now lol.
Yeah, prevedible, it would be the same crap with PS5 and people will EAT it and be happy about... PS Vita all over again :'(
You can still keep your Xbox one and older games on those drives, and you can back up your Xbox series x games to those drives, you just can't play them from those drives. So you'll probably have to transfer games you want to play to the internal storage.
Also wait on buying an expansion card, I almost guarantee that by the time you need it they'll have two or more terabyte cards out.
This was really the only way you could have done this, plus it looks like third parties are allowed to produce cards. The one they showed off was made by Seagate.
There's no way MS hits $500 with these specs without losing quite a bit of money. Like, no way. Especially now with factories at low capacity.
Hardware Decompression – Hardware decompression is a dedicated hardware component introduced with Xbox Series X to allow games to consume as little space as possible on the SSD while eliminating all CPU overhead typically associated with run-time decompression. It reduces the software overhead of decompression when operating at full SSD performance from more than three CPU cores to zero – thereby freeing considerable CPU power for the game to spend on areas like better gameplay and improved framerates. Hardware decompression is one of the components of the Xbox Velocity Architecture.
DirectStorage – DirectStorage is an all new I/O system designed specifically for gaming to unleash the full performance of the SSD and hardware decompression. It is one of the components that comprise the Xbox Velocity Architecture. Modern games perform asset streaming in the background to continuously load the next parts of the world while you play, and DirectStorage can reduce the CPU overhead for these I/O operations from multiple cores to taking just a small fraction of a single core; thereby freeing considerable CPU power for the game to spend on areas like better physics or more NPCs in a scene. This newest member of the DirectX family is being introduced with Xbox Series X and we plan to bring it to Windows as well.
DirectML – Xbox Series X supports Machine Learning for games with DirectML, a component of DirectX. DirectML leverages unprecedented hardware performance in a console, benefiting from over 24 TFLOPS of 16-bit float performance and over 97 TOPS (trillion operations per second) of 4-bit integer performance on Xbox Series X. Machine Learning can improve a wide range of areas, such as making NPCs much smarter, providing vastly more lifelike animation, and greatly improving visual quality.
What a game changer.
DirectStorage – DirectStorage is an all new I/O system designed specifically for gaming to unleash the full performance of the SSD and hardware decompression. It is one of the components that comprise the Xbox Velocity Architecture. Modern games perform asset streaming in the background to continuously load the next parts of the world while you play, and DirectStorage can reduce the CPU overhead for these I/O operations from multiple cores to taking just a small fraction of a single core; thereby freeing considerable CPU power for the game to spend on areas like better physics or more NPCs in a scene. This newest member of the DirectX family is being introduced with Xbox Series X and we plan to bring it to Windows as well.
DirectML – Xbox Series X supports Machine Learning for games with DirectML, a component of DirectX. DirectML leverages unprecedented hardware performance in a console, benefiting from over 24 TFLOPS of 16-bit float performance and over 97 TOPS (trillion operations per second) of 4-bit integer performance on Xbox Series X. Machine Learning can improve a wide range of areas, such as making NPCs much smarter, providing vastly more lifelike animation, and greatly improving visual quality.
What a game changer.
So proprietary Storage... hopefully this will work, unlike the other times.
Still 1TB its too little now at days and I prefer extra 30 secs in loading times than deleting and redownloading games every few weeks.
What sucks its that both PS5 and XSX are doing the same thing, so its not like we have a option.
Hopefully USB Drives can be used instead to install and run games, not just for backups.
Still 1TB its too little now at days and I prefer extra 30 secs in loading times than deleting and redownloading games every few weeks.
What sucks its that both PS5 and XSX are doing the same thing, so its not like we have a option.
Hopefully USB Drives can be used instead to install and run games, not just for backups.
I mean they get a huge liquidator discount on literally everything... they also modify everything in house, what you see isn't a PC equivalent part and literally all of it is cheaper piece by piece, like the 12TF custom GPU/CPU they have isn't even a thing that can be compared to anything on the PC end price wise because it doesn't even exist
600$ is a death knell in the console space, that's just a known commodity
Extremely impressive. I'm mostly a PC user, with no need for an Xbox, but I sort of want one. It's already more powerful than my computer (5 years old, it 6600k/980ti), and I'm not planning to build for a couple more years. The suspend resume on multiple games is awesome.
The storage doesn't bother me, backwards compatible stuff goes to an external hard drive, and 1TB internally can be managed pretty well I think. I've stuck with my 500GB PS4 just deleting shit I already beat.
The storage doesn't bother me, backwards compatible stuff goes to an external hard drive, and 1TB internally can be managed pretty well I think. I've stuck with my 500GB PS4 just deleting shit I already beat.