Microsoft Consoles and Updates

[spatular]

2 hours ago, Maryokutai said:

 

You won't get the exact same experience in lower resolution (1440p), that's just PR nonsense. It doesn't work like that. You can't run Flight Simulator in Ultra Settings on a significantly weaker rig by just hooking it onto a screen that isn't 4K.

at 1440p I think you’re probably right, but at 1080p I think it has a chance of working exactly like that, (if the rumours are to be believed) the cpu, and fast ssd are the same as the series x, producing 1/4 of the pixels. I guess we’ll find out when these things come out.

 

I think it’s a good idea, well except I don’t want one because it looks like it doesn’t have a disk drive.

[DisturbedSwan]

 

Just a rumour. But yeah, pricey if true.

[mmmark]

I don’t really understand what that means. I thought you could plug most ext drives into it. Or is this internal and no choice?

 

ext seagate 1tb is £155 so it is a bit of a leap ?  But even at that price fcking hell ?

[DisturbedSwan]

4 minutes ago, mmmark said:

I don’t really understand what that means. I thought you could plug most ext drives into it. Or is this internal and no choice?

 

ext seagate 1tb is £155 so it is a bit of a leap ?  But even at that price fcking hell ?

 

The Drives are Microsoft's own proprietary solution on the XSX, similar to how HDDs worked on the 360.

 

 

[one-armed dwarf]

HDDs on the 360 where just an annoying enclosure to get people to pay more money tho, when you look inside it it was just a normal sata connection to a laptop drive. Absolute scam it was.

 

 

But these SSDs are supposed to be a bit more involved than that. They need that pci-e4 bandwidth. How they go about getting to that with a card you plonk into a machine I dunno but I can appreciate the costliness of this thing at least. 

 

I mean you would pay that or even more for similar type solutions on PC.

 

[spatular]

1 hour ago, mmmark said:

 I thought you could plug most ext drives into it. 

 

yeah you might be able to plug any external drive in but it'll only run old xbox one/backwards compatible games - definitely one of them said this can't remember if it was MS or sony, probably both will allow it. i guess they'll allow backing up games to these as well so you don't have to keep re-downloading them.

 

as the guys have already said, next gen games need to run on these new super fast ssd's. they're going to be expensive

 

hopefully an advantage to the way sony are allowing standard m2 drives (as long as they're fast enough/approved) is that they'll probably be a similar price at first but come down in price much faster.

[Maryokutai]

 

Colour me surprised.

 

Edit: It triggers me a bit that the Xbox logo/power button has a different orientation for both systems. 

[DisturbedSwan]

 

[mmmark]

I still say that’s coming down to 399 within 6 months.

[Maryokutai]

If the GBP's downward spiral continues it will be 600£ in 6 months.

[spatular]

so there it is, we have a price, odd they've just tweeted it instead of in a video thing of some sort. interesting to see what sony do, i doubt they'll go over 500 now anyway.

[mmmark]

I’d actually forgotten about brexit for a moment. One of the hosts of p1 podcast lives in Canada and always talks about how expensive games are there (around £80 iirc). I can’t see that happening here but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a possibility ?

[Craymen Edge]

They don't really make games I want to play very often, but that's great for people who do.

 

[DisturbedSwan]

Undoubtedly great value. Worth mentioning EA play is EA Access (as it used to be called) it's not the Premium one where you get all EA's new titles Day 1. 

 

 

[Maf]

Amazing. Wonder what they’ll do for Gamepass in November. No Halo sucks. But if they can have a really good Gamepass launches for Nov + that price could be great. 

[Maryokutai]

The premium EA Play thing would have been a game changer. Bundle Series S with Gamepass and voilà, the perfect machine for the casual FIFA gamer.

[mmmark]

Xbox could be back on top with all this. Or at least be even in sales. They’ve certainly tipped the scales in their favour.

[DisturbedSwan]

You already could @Nag it's called '0% finance'. It's cool though, but yeah doesn't really add much here that we didn't already have available.

 

9 minutes ago, mmmark said:

Xbox could be back on top with all this. Or at least be even in sales. They’ve certainly tipped the scales in their favour.

 

Please tell me this is sarcasm. ?

[mmmark]

No it’s my thoughts and opinion

[DisturbedSwan]

Fair play @mmmark ?

 

@Nagit's great to get some next-gen news! It's not the news I wanted (obviously) but yeah, it's cool that we have prices for one (I suppose technically 2) of the next gen systems.