Xbox Series S/X

This is the Halloween of video game consoles, where there are several movies with the exact same name.

It makes sense when buying at retail. Clueless parents/grandparents can just say "I want an Xbox" and the worker will likely know what they want.

Online market listings on the other hand...

I'm still surprised Hellblade II is the announce game and I like Hellblade.

Not me! I use Linux!

Here’s some feature news- backwards compatibility with Xbox One titles will be supported straight out the box

Looks like this also includes games that are backwards compatible on Xbox One. Good to see they’ll continue with it

Full specs.

Full details inside the link, but the shortpoints are 12 TF, Variable Rate Shading, Hardware sccelerated DirectX Raytracing, Quick Resume for multiple games, Smart delivery.

Also, backwards compatible with all Xbox One games including any original Xbox and Xbox 360 games made backwards compatible on the Xbox One.

Cyberpunk 2077 XB0 buyers will get a free Series X upgrade.

Edited by tclittle on Feb 24th 2020 at 1:22:19 PM

I don't see any mention of hard disk space.

Phil Spenser: Xbox will still be having a digital event to start off the next gen despite the cancellation of E3; details in the coming weeks.

Welp, here comes an info dump:

Full specs

Will require proprietary cards to increase hard drive space, external hard drives can be used to only store save data and Xbox One backwards comparability games.

Official page lists lanuch date as this US Thanksgiving (late November).

Source code for the GPU has potentially been stolen. The thief is threatening to release it if they don't find a buyer.

The Series X logo may have been leaked through trademarks.

How long do you think the next generation of consoles will last?

Depends on how you define the start and end of a generation.

Microsoft first entered the console wars in generation 5. Did this generation start with the launch of the Dreamcast in 1998? Well, the final PS1 game, a Japan-only port of Strider Hiryu, was released in 2006, two years after the launch of the XBox 0. So does that mean the 32 and 64 bit era lasted until 2006?

(For the sake of sanity, let's not consider homebrew).

A while back there was an Ask The Tropers thread about if the Switch counts as a ninth-gen console or not. I thought it did, but upon looking into it, I realized that console generations are completely arbitrary and have no real start or endpoint.

The only things that have generations are the single platform holder's hardware. I.E. the Switch would be a seventh-gen Nintendo home console (eighth if you count the Virtual Boy).

Yeah, the only really meaningful distinction is between gens 1 and 2, and possibly the 8-bit era.

In gen 1, the console and all the games were a single unit; the games were interchangeable circuits that altered the behaviour of the console itself. Gen 2 used cartridges containing games in ROM form.

Gen 3, the 8-bit era, was the one that arose from the ashes of the crash of 1983, and was sort of a new beginning. Hardware manufacturers tended to release new consoles around the same time, and so it made sense to group those that were released and sold around the same time into generations.

Things started to get controversial in gen 7. Since the Wii was so much less powerful than the PS3 and X360, some individuals insisted it was a gen 6 console despite being the successor to the GameCube, which everyone agreed was gen 6. If generations mean anything, then yes, the Switch is absolutely gen 9 because it's the successor to the Wii U, which was gen 8.

People say the Switch is still 8th gen because it released so much earlier than the PS5 and XBSX, but that never stopped them from calling the 360 a 7th gen console, even though it was out before the PS3 and Wii.

I don't base generations off of the specs of the hardware itself, I only base it off of when the hardware released.

Ergo, I consider the Dreamcast to be a sixth generation console alongside the PS 2, Game Cube, and Xbox.

However, generations do not exactly end until software stops being made for it. So to me, the sixth generation ended in 2013 when the PS 2's final game released.

This also means that technically the 7th generation is still ongoing because we keep getting Just Dance games on the Wii.

x5 Actually, Xbox entered the ring during the sixth gen of consoles.

First Inside Xbox featuring Series X games is on May 7th at 8 am PDT.

Reminder of the above in just over 10 hours from now and be on the lookout for the new optimized for Series X logo.

First Look Xbox Series X third-party titles:

Most/All of these games feature Smart Delivery, which means if you buy the game once, you get the best version of that game on whatever Xbox (Series X, One, maybe Windows?) you play on without paying an extra cent.

In other words, if you get these games on Xbox One, you'll be able to get the optimized Xbox Series X version of them free of charge.

Games featured:

• Bright Memory: Infinite
• Dirt 5
• Scorn
• Chorus
• Madden NFL 21
• Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2
• Call of the Sea
• The Ascent
• The Medium (a new horror title from the developers of the recent Blair Witch video game, featuring music by Silent Hill's Akira Yamaoka)
• Scarlet Nexus (Bandai Namco title, I guess God Eater meets Sunset Overdrive?)
• Second Extinction
• Yakuza: Like A Dragon
• Assassin Creed: Valhalla

A first look at first party games from Xbox Game Studios should be coming this summer.

Edited by TargetmasterJoe on May 7th 2020 at 12:28:19 PM

Starting with the Cyberpunk 2077 XB0 bundle, all Xbox system bundles will no longer have codes, instead games will be redeemed to your Microsoft account and be downloaded through your initial startup.

Edited by tclittle on Jun 7th 2020 at 11:24:46 AM

The codename Lockhart appears in latest Xbox devkit documents.

Double post:

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/06/25/xbox-series-x-full-power-of-console-games-optimized/

The following already released/upcoming games have already been optimized for the Series X:

• Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
• Bright Memory Infinite
• Call of the Sea
• Chivalry 2
• Chorus
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Destiny 2
• DiRT 5
• FIFA 21
• Gears 5
• Halo Infinite
• Hitman 3
• Madden NFL 21
• Marvel’s Avengers
• Outriders
• Scarlet Nexus
• Scorn
• Second Extinction
• The Ascent
• The Medium
• Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2
• Yakuza: Like a Dragon

Microsoft is set to present some first-party games for the Xbox Series X for July 23. (Fingers crossed.)

They'll also be showing off some legit gameplay for Halo Infinite.

In other updates, while there's no confirmation nor denying the presence of the alleged Xbox Lockhart, we do have one interesting tidbit about it: in terms of graphics, while it doesn't necessarily kick as much ass as Series X does, the Xbox Lockhart seems to have enough power to kick more ass than the PS5 and won't as hefty a price tag as the Series X.

Might we end up calling it the Xbox Series S?