This is the PC killer (Haha JK) - The Xbox Scarlett

[Trik'Stari]

Just now, Bouzoo said:

I think it's more of a Zen2+Navi SoC + new SSD marketing, or at least some form of it.

I'll have to rewatch, but I distinctly heard him say "solid state drive and ssd"

[leadeater]

57 minutes ago, SlimyPython said:

it'll be possible of running games at 120Hz frame rates, with 8K resolutions hit, plus ray-tracing

But the date isn't April 1st.....

[S w a t s o n]

Not directly related but I must spread the message. On xbox game pass for pc (or ultimate) you can now play metro exodus. You need the xbox beta app. latest microsoft store app seems to work too

[JoostinOnline]

54 minutes ago, SlimyPython said:

It was what Microsoft said at E3

They didn't say that's what games will run at. They were talking about bandwidth.

[poochyena]

So what are they going to call it?

Xbox 2?

Xbox 4?

 

[Crunchy Dragon]

55 minutes ago, Trik'Stari said:

I really liked the one guy saying "The combination of the solid state drive and the SSD is a real game changer" (or something to that effect).

 

those are the same thing you moron.

One SSD acts as a cache for the other SSD via StoreMI, enhancing the SSD speed so you can SSD while you SSD.

[Sauron]

1 hour ago, SlimyPython said:

It was what Microsoft said at E3

They also said 1080p 60 when they launched the xbone, we all know how that turned out

[NumLock21]

1 hour ago, melete said:

Surprised we didn't get much info about their streaming service. I expected to hear a lot of details about that.

We'll probably going to get more detail as AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su will be doing a keynote tomorrow at E3.

 

https://www.amd.com/en/events/e3

 

[melete]

41 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

We'll probably going to get more detail as AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su will be doing a keynote tomorrow at E3.

 

https://www.amd.com/en/events/e3

 

Might get it then. Microsoft also had it on the floor apparently, Jeff Gerstmann of Giant Bomb was playing some Gears of War on "an android phone bolted to a controller" after the presser.

[TetraSky]

1 hour ago, poochyena said:

So what are they going to call it?

Xbox 2?

Xbox 4?

 

Obviously, there is only one proper choice:
Xbox

 

That is all. Just, Xbox. Because Microsoft is great at naming shit.

[Trik'Stari]

1 hour ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

One SSD acts as a cache for the other SSD via StoreMI, enhancing the SSD speed so you can SSD while you SSD.

Not sure if sarcastic or serious.

 

Currently watching the Bethesda E3 showcase, just waiting for DOOM because there is literally nothing else they could talk about that I would possibly fucking care about.

[Big Head Tech]

The next Xbox is coming in 18 months featuring Zen 2 cores and Navi GPUs. In 18 months who knows what will come out...

[Dabombinable]

 

3 hours ago, Princess Luna said:

I mean it can... depends the game and settings is all, recall people have an obsession with max/ultra settings when talking if a card is capable or not of said display settings which is erroneous most of the time.

4 hours ago, Dabombinable said:

without serious sacrifices to graphics quality

 

[Drak3]

1 hour ago, Trik'Stari said:

Not sure if sarcastic or serious.

Technically, what Crunchy said can work. It's just a really weird scenario...

[Princess Luna]

12 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

without serious sacrifices to graphics quality 

Spoiler

 

I mean seriously 4k is still by no means what should be aimed, 1440p is just as good in my humble opinion and performs a lot better.

 

But that does not mean 4k is unplayable from becoming so ugly or anything simply by doing gentle tuning of your settings, and that's without mentioning how 4k alone can revive a lot of older games which runs maxed fine.

 

I sincerely believe all of this is exaggerated. 

[IAmAndre]

5 hours ago, Trik'Stari said:

I really liked the one guy saying "The combination of the solid state drive and the SSD is a real game changer" (or something to that effect).

 

those are the same thing you moron.

I noticed it and this basically sums up the conference. Besides the trailers, it was mostly a ton of buzzwords and marketing shit like "4 times more powerful than Xbox One X" without any actual facts. I personally watched the whole conference at 1.5 speed on average.

[schwellmo92]

5 hours ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

Yes, I know, but even high end PCs struggle to consistently get 120FPS at 4K, so I doubt that it will be able to do that. It's probably upscaled 4K or something.

Keep in mine consoles don’t run games with every setting maxed out, like the PC people trying to run 4K 120Hz.

[Giganthrax]

Sounds great. Too bad they're still not gonna sell any consoles without meaningful exclusives. 

[Nowak]

6 hours ago, Trik'Stari said:

I really liked the one guy saying "The combination of the solid state drive and the SSD is a real game changer" (or something to that effect).

 

those are the same thing you moron.

what about the guy who talked up 120FPS like it's some new thing

 

when PC gamers have been playing games at higher frame rates for actual decades

[Serin]

Yeah first time watching I thought it was SSD and SSD.
But s'not. SOC and solid state drive.
The captions confirm it, not that they couldn't be edited after the fact. But the guy is clearly saying SOC.

Damn, no memes. 

[Ravendarat]

2 hours ago, PC Budget Solutions said:

The next Xbox is coming in 18 months featuring Zen 2 cores and Navi GPUs. In 18 months who knows what will come out...

This is exactly what I thought, any one saying it cant do what they claimed need to remember that in 18 months it might not even be all that special to be able to run 8k or 4k at 120hz. The real question will be how many people will even be in a position to use that to its potential anyways

[RejZoR]

When will people learn you can't compare consoles to PC's directly. Consoles have 1 hardware configuration. PC's have millions of them. It's also why iPhones perform so well. Sure, they have great chipset, but the main reason is that iOS is so tightly controlled and basically comes with very few hardware configurations, meaning you can really squeeze every drop of power from it when you need it and the way you need it since you know it'll behave this way on every single device. Consoles are like that. Sure, they have some limitations, but they can specifically optimize games for things you're just not allowed to on PC. And even on PC performance leaps were huge in recent years. Back in the day, when new game came out, you really needed latest and greatest graphic card to have alright experience with it. These days you can have a year or two old mid range card and it'll run latest game really well. Just look how long RX480 has really been around with tiny bumps in performance. with RX580 and RX590 iterations If you bought RX480 back when it came out and you can still pretty comfortably play games with it. Even new ones.

 

Or if you just look how much weaker consoles were spec wise and they could run same games just fine for the most part. Their main struggle were slow HDD's and some RAM limitations. But they covered even that just fine. With Ryzen and Navi combo, I can see why it can have a huge leap this time around and be less dependent on raw power.

[Master Disaster]

9 hours ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

Yes, I know, but even high end PCs struggle to consistently get 120FPS at 4K, so I doubt that it will be able to do that. It's probably upscaled 4K or something.

Consistently? How about at all. Even a 2080ti paired with a 9700K (considered the best gaming CPU available) cannot push 120FPS at 4K in anything released less than a year ago. And ray tracing on top of that....

 

 

Microsoft are talking out of their collective asses

[suicidalfranco]

9 hours ago, SlimyPython said:

It was what Microsoft said at E3

Every console announcement, every generation, never actually achieved what they claim. Ain't going to start today.

 

They should just stop throwing numbers for the sake of fooling dumb kids who buy into the marketing and just make sure they can give a good/great experience at 1080p with a constant, sustained, no drops, 60fps.

 

That would be a great start.

[sof006]

I wouldn't be surprised if this new console was very much on par with some of the high end gaming desktops out there. Microsoft did say in the video "Up to 120 FPS" meaning it won't always achieve that. Probably looking at 60 vast majority of the time though.