Xbox Series S and X

[Joe Molotov]

Got one on Gamestop.

[demi]

We'll being X'ing together daddy 

I'm pent up and ready to pop, come over and let's jerk off together

[nudemacusers]

Hmm this is too fat for my entertainment stand’s shelving 🤔

Gonna have to get a new one I guess 🤷‍♂️

[MMaRsu]

Yeah I said it looked like that Keanu Reeves movie

[Joe Molotov]

I think it was Goodbye Volcano High.

[Rahxephon91]

Imagine caring about the design of a system that you won’t ever be looking at ever and will probably hide behind the TV/entertainment system anyway

Do you guys actually do this?

Like my entertainment has the systems out in the open to be seen at all times. Mostly, because I wouldn't cover them simply as a dust issue and always have access to them.

[Don Rumata]

I have them out in the open, but nobody's going to see them anyway.

[MMaRsu]

I have my 4 mini consoles sitting in front of the tv and it looks awesome

[Human Snorenado]

I only have a Switch and PS4 but they're both in my entertainment center; they're both black so not disgusting looking anyway, tho, because I'm an adult and don't like brightly colored toys.

[zomgee]

Ended up with an S, and X, and an Elite. Took some work but I got what I wanted.

[paprikastaude]

https://twitter.com/Fobwashed/status/1308071874102927360

[nudemacusers]

Hmm this is too fat for my entertainment stand’s shelving 🤔

Gonna have to get a new one I guess 🤷‍♂️

https://www.roomandboard.com/catalog/storage/media-cabinets/coles-media-cabinets

will prob get one of these; too bad the lead time means i'll have to delay my purchase a bit

[naff]

Didn't RDNA2 calculate TF differently?

not really. but also yes, every architecture has improvements/differences on top of raw tf that can't be communicated so simply. tl;dr intergenerational FLOP comparison is not all that valuable, but still gives a rough idea of output potential. comparing the series s and x rdna2 chip FLOPs is reasonable though. like the X gpu will be able to perform nearly 3x as many calculations as the S gpu.

afaik it's still shader cores * clock speed * instructions per clock cycle

[kingv]

Got my series x orderin at Amazon this morning.

[Svejk]

 
https://twitter.com/AndrewAlerts/status/1308497697775562752

I mean, this shit is way more confusing than the Wii/WiiU fiasco.   . And they said the PS5 pre-order was a nightmare.  Guess it's still money in MS pockets.

[paprikastaude]

Saw this tweet a couple of hours ago but only got it now, because I completely forgot how the Bone Pro was called.

[daycru]

Just remembered that Xbox controllers still use AA batteries   

[Himu]

MS is not playing this gen

https://twitter.com/DarthChillash/status/1308698155832270848

[naff]

improved res and framerate. basic lighting improvements for certain games eg what they've shown w gears 5

[demi]

Finally, concrete proof that Blinx the Timesweeper looks amazing at 120fps 4K

[BIONIC]

Call me when they give us raytraced Voodoo Vince 

[Human Snorenado]

Finally, concrete proof that Blinx the Timesweeper looks amazing at 120fps 4K

Advent Rising still trash tho

[Sho Nuff]

Just remembered that Xbox controllers still use AA batteries   

Yeah this fuckin rules and it's the best feature. Ask me about my Dual Shock 3s. Or fuck, even my Dual Shock 4s.

[nudemacusers]

Just remembered that Xbox controllers still use AA batteries   

get eneloops, peasant

[remy]

https://twitter.com/dark1x/status/1308830078692995074

Looking forward to seeing that this means.

120 fps ninja gaiden 2 pls

[MMaRsu]

Or NGB at 4k 120FPS

 

[Sho Nuff]

Preorders go live in 2 hours in Japan. Who knows if it'll be a clusterfuck. On one side the demand is gonna be next to nothing, on the other side maybe they figured that already and are allocating 100 units to the entire country

[Svejk]

Xbox Series X Expandable Storage (edit: 1TB) Costs $219.99, According To Best Buy

Yikes, if true... Guess that's another push for towards xcloud I suppose.

[kingv]

I did read you could still use external hdd for X1 games and series x games can be stored there, and transferred over to the ssd as needed, so that helps some

[Sho Nuff]

Japan is done. It was a fucking shitshow here. I got one on Amazon after randomly following links from Japanese twitter. My buddy in Tokyo was on the MS site at midnight and got one, but then it rejected all his payment methods (that he'd used before on that account) and kicked him out.

[demi]

Everyone not-japanese rushing to order an Xbox

[Nintex]

Xbox Series X|S Seagate 1TB Game Drive, $219.99

Nintendo Switch Lite, $199,99

We're at a point in history where a storage expansion for a console is more expensive than a Nintendo handheld.

[Pissy F Benny]

Probably was that way in the 360 days when they were selling 120 gig hard drives (or was it 80 idk) separately too, I wanna say you could get a DS for the similar or cheaper price by then

[kingv]

Yeah.. transfer a ~80-100GB game across USB then transfer another back to get sweet load times bros lol

It's priced high because it is in fact a custom drive... it's a tiny form factor for one, and drives that size are usually expensive and don't come with DRAM like the XS drives need.    Shit aint cheap, it's not some conspiracy to get you to stream games at 720p to your Android phone if you have one instead.

Better than downloading it again still, and at least you can keep any BC games on a regular external.

I’m not saying it’s perfect by any means.

[Raist]

Xbox Series X|S Seagate 1TB Game Drive, $219.99

Nintendo Switch Lite, $199,99

We're at a point in history where a storage expansion for a console is more expensive than a Nintendo handheld.

As much as that drive price is quite steep, especially since there will be no alternative, I can't say I'm shocked that a recent SSD is more expensive than a refurbished nVidia shield.

[Pissy F Benny]

They could have made it bigger tho so it feels like you’re getting your moneys worth

£220 for something that looks like a ps1 or 2 memory card

[bork]

The Verge says that "[g]ames for the Xbox Series S can be 30 percent smaller than the Series X, which will certainly help with storage options."

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/9/24/21453904/microsoft-xbox-series-x-1tb-expandable-storage-price-219-99

Xbox Series X Expandable Storage (edit: 1TB) Costs $219.99, According To Best Buy

Yikes, if true... Guess that's another push for towards xcloud I suppose.

It's not any better for PS5- there's a compatible 1TB drive that just got announced for the low, low price of $230.

[naff]

For the kinds of SSDs they're using that's pretty standard. Sure you can get a 1TB ssd for $100, but drives in that price bracket aren't nearly as good as the drives Sony and M$ are using on these consoles.

This is a better comparison https://www.newegg.com/samsung-1tb-980-pro/p/N82E16820147790?Description=1tb%20ssd&cm_re=1tb_ssd-_-20-147-790-_-Product

[naff]

lol, that's actually the ssd sony recommends.

i guess xbox ssd is a bit slower eh, but it seems like a relatively trivial difference (like ~1gbps compressed read difference?). 970 pro that halves IO speeds of these new drives is currently ~$310

damn, sounds like the sony drive is even faster than i'd thought. pretty skeptical those specs are actually going to hold up in testing

[brawndolicious]

The Sony and Sabrent drives are the same price as the Xbox Seagate thing but they end up being twice as fast. The advantage of the Xbox drive is that it is hot-swappable and doesn't require screwing something into the motherboard. Nerds that post on forums may be fine with doing that but it's more accessible to normies.

Personally, I'm just hoping the Xbox drives go way down in price now that the custom tooling and whatever has been built but I'm not optimistic, seeing as how overpriced X360 drives were back in the day. Maybe some enterprising vendor on Alibaba will come out with a shady NVME-Xbox adapter?

[naff]

The Sony and Sabrent drives are the same price as the Xbox Seagate thing but they end up being twice as fast. The advantage of the Xbox drive is that it is hot-swappable and doesn't require screwing something into the motherboard. Nerds that post on forums may be fine with doing that but it's more accessible to normies.

i would be really surprised if the specs they're touting end up in stable speeds even 1.5x faster than what ms are touting. maybe in very short bursts, but it would be a huge achievement if their drive is capable of the speeds they're touting for longer/continuous streams of data.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Well one thing we know that none of those ps5 drives are compatible with TES6

[Rahxephon91]

Considering how buggy TES games have been, maybe a good thing....

[Cerveza mas fina]

Considering you don't care about Xbox or TES you sure post a lot about both

[Rahxephon91]

It was a joke.

Because TES games are Buggy...

Espically on Playstation..

[naff]

Nobody has any clue what drives are gonna be compatible with PS5 yet.

yeah, i misread speculation the pro 980 will be on the list of approved drives. we do know the approved expansion drives will be M.2 NVMe at least.

[bork]

SNK announced that Samurai Shodown (2019) is getting a Series S/X release.

Not sure why since the Xbone version will run, but OK. Hope it at least allows for matches with Xbone players.

[Himu]

Real talk, if Xbox Series X had Demon's Souls and some other games I'd get it over PS5. That clean look.

[Don Rumata]

Real talk, if Xbox Series X had Demon's Souls and some other games I'd get it over PS5. That clean look.

I mean.. no shit? Exclusives games are literally the only selling point of PS5. 

[naff]

who wouldn't want those butti slick chad warden lines adorning their entertainment unit tho

[mormapope]

Sounds fast as fuck and the new features are legit.

[bork]

https://twitter.com/digitalfoundry/status/1310569066445377536

[mormapope]

Sekiro also ran at 60fps locked versus it hovering around 45/30 for the Xbone X. It sounds like a ton of current gen games are gonna run way better and in 4k.

All that money I spent on a terrifying backlog is gonna pay off
 

Cold boot, about 10 seconds long

[Don Rumata]

BC info sounds real nice.
Cold boot doesn't seem that impressive, more or less like a freshly formatted SSD PC. 
It'd be better if you could skip that Xbox logo.

[BisMarckie]

Mercenaries will look fucking sweet on that Series X

[Rahxephon91]

I mean I would hope uncapped 4K modes for games like DOA 6 would run at 60fps.

[Akala]

All that money I spent on a terrifying backlog is gonna pay off
 

I thought the same but who am I kidding. 

[HardcoreRetro]

GTA 4 at 60 fps! :O

[Nintex]

 

[demi]

Excited to play catchup on games