Xbox Series |OT|

[Mmm_fish_tacos]

Series v?

[the-pi-guy]

This is why I'm a senior analyst.

— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) September 11, 2020

[Legend]

ummmm....that wasn’t the only time…@iJustine @jennaezarik, did you notice anything?

— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) September 11, 2020

Haha that's great!

[the-pi-guy]

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Original media release for XSS. (News briefings)

[Dr. Pezus]

Part 1

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Original media release for XSS.

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[Xevross]

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Its just the videos that would have been sent to news outlets explaining the announcements which got leaked this week (XSS & price, XSX price, EA play coming to game pass)

[the-pi-guy]

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Fixed.

[Legend]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/an-ign-headline-about-the-xbox-family-of-consoles-is-blowing-minds-on-twitter.286208/

here’s the thing: what the fuck does any of this mean https://t.co/MlrjFpy1CR

— ben mekler (@benmekler) September 14, 2020

Imagine you're a parent buying a console for your child and the guy at the game store says this to you https://t.co/jrmIZAIHLA

— Asterisk* (@AsteriskOff) September 14, 2020

[kitler53]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/an-ign-headline-about-the-xbox-family-of-consoles-is-blowing-minds-on-twitter.286208/

here’s the thing: what the fuck does any of this mean https://t.co/MlrjFpy1CR

— ben mekler (@benmekler) September 14, 2020

Imagine you're a parent buying a console for your child and the guy at the game store says this to you https://t.co/jrmIZAIHLA

— Asterisk* (@AsteriskOff) September 14, 2020

lol, this is a technical caveat for the kind of gamer that cares about this.  MS's marketing message is "Backward Compatible!".    ...but yes that headline is quite hard to read even for a guy like me who is very much in the know.

[Dr. Pezus]

So basically it's worse than x1x for everything other than series games

[Legend]

So basically it's worse than x1x for everything other than series games

Series games matter the most tho

[kitler53]

So basically it's worse than x1x for everything other than series games

well, all it's really saying is series s would need to be optimized differently than xbox one x.  it would seem that MS is going to make series s specific optimizations but 3rd parties are not.  makes sense,.. why would they when there is no money it it for them and the customer for series s is the customer that chose to not prioritize great graphics over price.

xbox is going to be a real drag on development budgets with their separate optimizations required for: xbox one s, xbox one x, xbox series s, xbox series x.    cross gen was bad enough when there wasn't two spec's per generation.  good thing ms is marking the xbox series x as a thing that mostly just increases resolution and framerates because that will be easier for developers to deal with if they simply target series s as lead xbox platform.

[Xevross]

So basically it's worse than x1x for everything other than series games

In terms of raw power only its CPU is better than X, but everything is on newer and more efficient architecture. It means that games optimised for it will be better but it will run unoptimised games worse.

well, all it's really saying is series s would need to be optimized differently than xbox one x.  it would seem that MS is going to make series s specific optimizations but 3rd parties are not.  makes sense,.. why would they when there is no money it it for them and the customer for series s is the customer that chose to not prioritize great graphics over price.

xbox is going to be a real drag on development budgets with their separate optimizations required for: xbox one s, xbox one x, xbox series s, xbox series x.    cross gen was bad enough when there wasn't two spec's per generation.  good thing ms is marking the xbox series x as a thing that mostly just increases resolution and framerates because that will be easier for developers to deal with if they simply target series s as lead xbox platform.

Yes I think a lot of third parties will just lower and lower resolution, texture quality and things like that until it runs well. They won't bother with any serious optimisation, especially if series S sells worse than expected. It'll lead to a lot of series S games not looking good.

[Dr. Pezus]

Series games matter the most tho

I guess... But Ms has been making a big deal out of BC

[kitler53]

In terms of raw power only its CPU is better than X, but everything is on newer and more efficient architecture. It means that games optimised for it will be better but it will run unoptimised games worse.
Yes I think a lot of third parties will just lower and lower resolution, texture quality and things like that until it runs well. They won't bother with any serious optimisation, especially if series S sells worse than expected. It'll lead to a lot of series S games not looking good.

kind of like the current xbox one s..