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from the ps2-is-still-the-best-console-ever dept.
Microsoft's mid-cycle refresh for the Xbox One, the Xbox One X, has been announced. Graphics performance is quadrupled (and then some) to allow for 2160p gaming:
As far as the hardware itself goes, thanks to Microsoft's ongoing campaign, we already know the bulk of the details of the console. The 16nm SoC at the heart of the new Xbox One design is meant to be significantly more powerful than the original and S versions of the Xbox One, vaulting MS from having the least powerful console to the most powerful console. All told, the Xbox One X will offer almost 4.3x the GPU compute throughput of the Xbox One S, while the CPU cores have received a healthy 31% clockspeed boost (Interesting aside: Microsoft is still not calling it Jaguar, unlike the XB1/XB1S). The memory feeding the beast has also gotten a great deal faster as well, with Microsoft switching out their 8GB of DDR3 for a large and very fast 12GB of GDDR5, which has a combined memory bandwidth of 326GB/sec.
AKA the X-OX. Can it run NetHack in 4K?
Previously: PlayStation Neo and Xbox "Project Scorpio" to Bring 4K Resolution and VR to Console Gaming
The Race for 4K: How Project Scorpio Targets Ultra HD Gaming
More Details About the "Project Scorpio" Xbox One Successor
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Monday June 12 2017, @04:04PM (2 children)
Is there any good reason to assume you won't be able to use the Xbox One (X) purely offline, ten years from now?
Also, if anything, Sony have a worse reputation here than MS: they remotely sabotaged the OtherOS feature.
Microsoft did release a patch for the 360 which broke third-party memory-cards, [eurogamer.net] so their history is hardly perfect, but Sony still wins it. Seem to remember they did something similar with the original Xbox too, but I can't find a source.
(Score: 4, Informative) by julian on Monday June 12 2017, @05:26PM (1 child)
OtherOS was a conjob from the start. They used it to get around European Union import duties. General Purpose computing hardware was taxed less than luxury items like game consoles. So by letting Linux on it they got it classified as a computer and not a gaming device. They never had any intention of seriously supporting it as a general purpose computer after this was achieved.
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Tuesday June 13 2017, @08:28AM
Interesting, but I think my points stand.