Xbox Series X|S Thread - Power Your Dreams.

So, E3 for the full final reveal with price and maybe launch games mentioned?

I have doubts there'd be a Forza Horizon, considering they skipped on Motorsport last year, but if either of the two could show off the power of the next console for launch, I'd put money on Horizon. Very unlikely it'd happen, though, especially with the support Horizon 4 is still getting.

I'm also suspecting E3 might be the full reveal. Unless they were to give a full reveal at the first Inside Xbox of the year.

I thought Forza were doing a new racing game with a street style or did I just imagine that?

That's the mobile game.

647: What You Can Expect From the Next Generation of Gaming

https://majornelson.com/podcast/647-wha ... of-gaming/

20min podcast with Major Nelson interviewing Jason Ronald who is the partner director of program management. Not seen a summary yet but there's a transcript at the link.

As Microsoft closely monitors the impact of the COVID-19 health emergency, our top priority remains the health and safety of our employees, customers, partners, and communities. Our global health response team is acting to help protect our employees in accordance with global health authorities’ guidance. Worldwide, Microsoft employees are working to support organizations addressing the challenges on the ground...

...the supply chain is returning to normal operations at a slower pace than anticipated at the time of our Q2 earnings call. As a result, for the third quarter of fiscal year 2020, we do not expect to meet our More Personal Computing segment guidance as Windows OEM and Surface are more negatively impacted than previously anticipated. All other components of our Q3 guidance remain unchanged.

https://news.microsoft.com/2020/02/26/m ... -guidance/

Bodes well for Xbox...

KK wrote:
As Microsoft closely monitors the impact of the COVID-19 health emergency, our top priority remains the health and safety of our employees, customers, partners, and communities. Our global health response team is acting to help protect our employees in accordance with global health authorities’ guidance. Worldwide, Microsoft employees are working to support organizations addressing the challenges on the ground...

...the supply chain is returning to normal operations at a slower pace than anticipated at the time of our Q2 earnings call. As a result, for the third quarter of fiscal year 2020, we do not expect to meet our More Personal Computing segment guidance as Windows OEM and Surface are more negatively impacted than previously anticipated. All other components of our Q3 guidance remain unchanged.

https://news.microsoft.com/2020/02/26/m ... -guidance/

Bodes well for Xbox...

Possibly, depends on what their "Q3 guidance" actually was - if they didn't talk about the new Xbox then it could still be impacted.

Monkey Man wrote:
647: What You Can Expect From the Next Generation of Gaming

https://majornelson.com/podcast/647-wha ... of-gaming/

20min podcast with Major Nelson interviewing Jason Ronald who is the partner director of program management. Not seen a summary yet but there's a transcript at the link.

Couple of new titbits from the podcast -

Microsoft used a similar feature on the Xbox One to resume games, but the Xbox Series X will resume multiple games from a suspended state whether you’re rebooting the console, switching games, or resuming from standby.

“I had to reboot because I had a system update, and then I went back to the game and went right back to it,” reveals Hryb in the podcast. “So it survives a reboot.” That will be useful for any dashboard updates that would usually interrupt any progress in a game, and it sets the stage for encouraging player habits of simply switching off a console and not worrying about save points.

Alongside this new detail, Microsoft’s director of Xbox program management, Jason Ronald, teases something called audio ray tracing. It’s not a term that’s typically used right now, but essentially, it’s spatial audio for immersion in Xbox Series X games. “With the introduction of hardware accelerated ray tracing with the Xbox series X, we’re actually able to enable a whole new set of scenarios, whether that’s more realistic lighting, better reflections, we can even use it for things like spatial audio and have ray traced audio,” explains Ronald.

Microsoft is planning to dig deeper into the dedicated hardware-acceleration for spatial audio on the Xbox Series X at the Game Developers Conference next month. Senior audio specialists at Microsoft are planning to hold a talk around how Microsoft is collaborating with game designers, Dolby, and others to take advantage of this hardware support.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/26/2115 ... cing-audio

Ray traced audio could be excellent, providing people have the output equipment to get the real benefit from it. We are so far overdue some real development in game audio that this would be great to see.

I’m already saving for this, can’t wait for Halo Infinite on this. Literally genuinely excited. I’ve come to realise over time that Jesus, I love Halo. Love loads of games, tons, from Doom, to all the Zelda’s, Gears, even GTA’s, Red Dead, Bioshocks, half-Life’s and hundreds more but Halo beats them all.

In Theory: Can a four teraflop GPU cut it for a next-gen console?

However, while the tests here can only really be considered a very rough ballpark approximation of what the real thing may deliver, the basic concept of scalability seems to check out - and with next-gen pricing apparently causing concern, maybe a more value-orientated console is what the market is going to need.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digi ... make-sense

Internally Curry's PC World has this priced up between £350-£500. Nothing that noteworthy really, but £350 would be a bombshell which I can't see happening. Not unless Microsoft have gone Xbox 1 balls-to-the-wall again to gain market share (launched at £299 but within 6 weeks was cut to just £199, with everyone who had already bought it getting 2 free games and an extra controller as compensation).

£350 for a machine as powerful as it appears to be would be incredible value but I can't see Microsoft willing to absorb the losses it would have to make on each unit sold. It would be a contender for the best value console at launch of all time and along with someone getting cheap gamepass subs could make for some awesomely cheap gaming for the next 5 years.

no Chance.

£475-£499 for the high spec machine I reckon.

I’d genuinely be shocked if it’s below £499

Maybe they could position it as 'Xbox Series X just £350 when purchased with 2 years of Game Pass Ultimate'.

I just don’t know what to expect from next gen in terms of the graphical output. I think that’s what draws me in most how the games look. And I guess I can’t imagine how it looks any different if that makes sense. But it’s exciting

KK wrote:Maybe they could position it as 'Xbox Series X just £350 when purchased with 2 years of Game Pass Ultimate'.

Fully expecting a subscription model like a mobile phone for these next gen machines. Either buy the system outright for £500 or pay £300 plus sign up for a 2 year Gamepass ultimate contract.

It’s possible MS will take a hit in order to get the Series X into as many homes as possible.

But I think it’ll £499.

I'm just glad both Microsoft and Sony are back making pure games machines and have seemingly not bothered saying anything about it being an all in one entertainment device.
If I wanted a fancy pants 4k blue ray player I'd buy one and I'm fine with my tv doing all the tv type stuff.

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