Xbox One X has 12GB of RAM... and more than 8,5GB are usable. Where is the gain if you are only going to play 1080p games? A revision of Xbox One X seems more suitable for a "second" option Xbox Series and cheaper... as it is a 3 years old hardware that can be sweezed with AMD 5nm build procceses, cheaper RAM and cheaper cooling solutions.
Xbox Series S is NOT needed. Employ the design, development and marketing effort on making Xbox Series X with Halo 6 and 6 month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate included cheaper, for example, 399$. That is better than selling an Xbox Series X at 549$, Xbox Series S at 399$ and Xbox One X at 299$. We only need Xbox Series X, forget any other low end thing and use the money on making Xbox Series X better and cheaper.
PS4 popularized VR games and opened the route for Half-Life: Alyx experiences like.
What's clear is that it will be difficult to obstruct vent conducts on PS5 and... lucky us, we will be able to pile up.
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Well... that confirms no Xbox version, as it'd need to be compatible with basic Xbox One.
I would not call launching The Last of Us Part II, Ghost of Tsunima, Dreams, Marvel's Iron Man VR, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Nioh 2, etc. being quiet... I think exclusive PS4 games tell everything, before speaking about what will arrive for holidays.
PC is king on visual quality, but some titles are not playable on PC (console exclusives...) and sound quality on PC will have to catch up PS5 libraries... Maybe we see a new wave of sound cards with RayTracing sound, NVME PCIe 4.0 controllers capable of managing TB/s and haptic controllers for PC that games like Flight Simulator or Elite Dangerous show at its best. But... we will have to wait maybe a couple or years before PC hardware and software is at the level of PS5 games in those aspect...
A price of 100$ lower for Xbox Series X could make it... Microsoft has to fight the price war if they want to sell its console to someone more than fans this gen. Exclusive games will be only on PlayStation side. Cloud services will allow anybody to play Microsoft platforms "exclusives", so we will only need to pay the month we want to play a particular title. But... if we want to play PlayStation exclusive tittles that are not on PSNow, we will have to buy the console. Fact.
Free games like this make may paid titles so little... Go Bungie, Go!
And that's the reason for having real exclusives for a platform es a good thing. Because exclusive titles make unique experiences and the best from each platform. Multiplatform games bring unhappy people who see others play better expending less or the same amount of money. Games for PC/consoles are stopping PC game development since PS3 days. PS4/Xbox One made it worse. Now, we face a time when Sony will defend exclusive development for PS5 and PSNow and it is good. But, also, a time whe...
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Nobody develops exclusively for Xbox... NOBODY.
Well... I buy a console for its exclusive games. For any other game... I invest on PC. No problem here, PS5 is a first day buy.
"Xbox Velocity Architecture is the soul"... This is a good formula for everything Xbox related. You only have to change first term and you have a cloud like mantra.
How fast do Xbox Series X devs learn?
Or PSNow...
Games and sales.
Mass Effect without loading times (well, with an option to listen or read elevator chats included...) would be my first next gen title.
If you launch a games console with the only target put on power, it will fail in no time, because others can do something better before your platform takes off. You need to add something unique that maintains a superiority, like price, cathaloge, services or non standard aproaches to gaming that are difficult to achiveve outside a closed system like the ones a console delivers.
That's my point of view from a 25 years consoles and PC gaming proffesional sector perspective and some...