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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 Celestial on Monday June 12 2017, @05:56PM (1 child)
Xbox One X is indeed a terrible name. However, terrible console names is not limited to Microsoft. Exhibit A would be the Wii U. The name confused so many people that most non-hardcore gamers thought that it was an accessory to the Wii. Exhibit B would be the PlayStation 4 Pro.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @06:24PM
I only passively agree on the Wii U's terrible name - the media helped confuse the public on that one as far as I could tell. After that marketing didn't help, and stores added the confusion by mixing Wii and Wii U games together in the shelves all the time. I'm not entirely sure where the confusion came from myself, as I read it was Nintendo's new console and realized immediately it was a brand new console - not just a Wii accessory.
But for the Pro, I don't see that as a terrible name at all. It actually tells you what it is. A powered up PS4. Anything released after the PS4 Pro is released is suppose to work on a regular PS4 as well so there's nothing to confuse people with. (At least you can say that type of confusion exists with the Wii U since there were Wii U specific games that only worked on the Wii U.)
If Pro-only games surface down the road, only then would you be able to accuse Sony of having a bad name that can cause confusion with the public. Their official stance on the topic is that it's just not going to happen.