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3 hours ago, playstationdude said:

I dont think Sony wants to take a big hit this gen. They've tried to keep the costs down on ps5 even if it means the specs to be weaker than XSX. And the way they keep saying its a premium console and with all the SSD propoganda, it's likely going to be 450-500.

Current BOM of PS5 is inflated because of jacked up component prices.

 

@CarbonCore said the BOM is 460$, I believe it will be easily 415-425$ in normal times. Hit will be much lower than what it looks like now, after December. So sell at 449 for a small loss and then it's profit.

Should take courage and sell it on 399$ and screw MS for this generation.

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6 minutes ago, Right said:

Current BOM of PS5 is inflated because of jacked up component prices.

 

@CarbonCore said the BOM is 460$, I believe it will be easily 415-425$ in normal times. Hit will be much lower than what it looks like now, after December. So sell at 449 for a small loss and then it's profit.

Should take courage and sell it on 399$ and screw MS for this generation.

 

In console gens you get the early lead you win the gen, by a wide margin.

 

They were only be able to match up and exceed the X360, inspite of getting btfo by $600 because of RROD, and PS3 being a superior console later on, with total multimedia entertainment features, lots of quality exclusives, FREE MULTIPLAYER and PS+ being Game Pass before it was cool.

 

Currently it's brinkmanship, both of them are waiting for the other guy to announce price first, then they do $50-$100 cut

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1 hour ago, PhantomShade said:

 

In console gens you get the early lead you win the gen, by a wide margin.

Exactly.

The lead is everything, early adopters are usually the one who will spend a lot on games too. They will buy any Yearly sub and there comes the missing 50$ all for MS/Sony.

 

Once you have the lead, a lot of things don’t matter, including Platform-exclusives. And this is “one of the” reasons PS3 lost out to 360, despite being a great console with BD, awesome exclusives.
There are other reasons too, but launch lead and launch pricing simply sets the tone.

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29 minutes ago, Right said:

Exactly.

The lead is everything, early adopters are usually the one who will spend a lot on games too. They will buy any Yearly sub and there comes the missing 50$ all for MS/Sony.

 

Once you have the lead, a lot of things don’t matter, including Platform-exclusives. And this is “one of the” reasons PS3 lost out to 360, despite being a great console with BD, awesome exclusives.
There are other reasons too, but launch lead and launch pricing simply sets the tone.

 

Have to disagree with you. PS3 did not lose out to the X360. The 360 had the lead, true but PS3 caught up by mid-gen, and surpassed it later. Good Exclusives matter a lot. Early PS3 gen was missing quality exclusives. We had games like Genji: Days of the Blade, Untold Legends, Resistance 1 etc., but they were not highly regarded. Meanwhile MS had the (at the time) brand new Gears Series, Mass Effect Series, Dragon Age, Fable 2, Lost Odyssey etc. Bioware, before being acquired by EA, used to almost exclusively develop for MS on the console front. Then you had the fact that 3rd poarties found PS3 hard to develop for and the more expensive pricing - all lead to the early MS Lead.

 

But once the exclusives clicked for Sony, i.e., once Metal Gear Solid 4, Uncharted 2 and God of War 3 came out - there was no looking back. Excellent exclusives after exclusives, Free multiplayer with the (At the time excellent PS+ free games), console prices coming down due to PS3 Slim, all lead to PS3 sales shooting past X360, despite MS doing stunts like buying GTA 4 DLC exclusivity for 360. It was a close race, but by the end of the gen, PS3 was actually slightly ahead (87 million units vs 360's 84 million units). But ignoring just nos., I would say Sony came out ahead by a wide margin, because they developed multiple well known IPs and brought up multiple studios that are very famous today. Meanwhile MS was left with almost nothing, since they had essentially depended on money-hatting 3rd parties through-out the gen.

 

And that, along with MS's brilliant marketing led to the absolutely amazing 8th Generation, where Sony was able to almost get in vicinity of the PS2 nos and MS is wherever it is. 7th Gen hardware units sold-wise though Wii won, since they could get the (What is Today) Smartphone crowd with their motion controls and Wii Sports.

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32 minutes ago, roun90 said:

 

I think I didn't mean it that way. Exclusives matter to the fans, I can totally see people who saw best of MGS series on PS2 ,had all reasons to buy PS3 for MGS4

and Exclusives matter to people who genuinely like to play good games, if they don't have that console, they buy it.

 

I was talking more about the general crowd, fo whom it is not much of bother, who are happy with their yearly fix of CoD or whatever good out there.

You have launch lead, you get bigger base at beginning then you have more such people falling in your net.

Now, these guys see an awesome exclusive coming on console other than what they own.....not too many jump ships.

 

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7 hours ago, PhantomShade said:

 

lol they could have continued to sell Xbone x instead of making new SKU.

 

During their July conference they could have announced it Don Mattrick style.

"Don't have 500 dollars? we have a product for you, it's called Xbox One X"

 

:rofl:

 

 

The CPU is too weak. Even if the new SKU matches the Xbone X in TFLOPs, the architectural improvements and SSD would make it punch way above what the numbers suggest. 

 

You should watch the Digital Foundry video that released a while back on why TFLOPs dont matter anymore.

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10 minutes ago, l33tmaniac said:

 

The CPU is too weak. Even if the new SKU matches the Xbone X in TFLOPs, the architectural improvements and SSD would make it punch way above what the numbers suggest. 

 

You should watch the Digital Foundry video that released a while back on why TFLOPs dont matter anymore.

 

Literally two dudes on the forum are going to get mad at this :rofl:

 

Thanks for the cpu is too weak answer btw,never realized that could be the reason why they have a new SKU :lol:

 

PS4Xbone CPU was a tablet-laptop CPU after all

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22 hours ago, l33tmaniac said:

 

The CPU is too weak. Even if the new SKU matches the Xbone X in TFLOPs, the architectural improvements and SSD would make it punch way above what the numbers suggest. 

 

You should watch the Digital Foundry video that released a while back on why TFLOPs dont matter anymore.

But But But ...series x is 12 TF :majesty: :wub: vs the 10.8 tf (actually 9tf) of PS5 :rofl:(weakass console, lolz) 

 

There will be a 40% performance increase on series X. So much powah, just STFU :chair: 

Worldz most powahful console rox. #native 4k #120fps .

 

thuglife

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44 minutes ago, playstationdude said:

But But But ...series x is 12 TF :majesty: :wub: vs the 10.8 tf (actually 9tf) of PS5 :rofl:(weakass console, lolz) 

 

There will be a 40% performance increase on series X. So much powah, just STFU :chair: 

Worldz most powahful console rox. #native 4k #120fps .

 

thuglife

 

Dont forget it over heats bro, meanwhile the Series X is as cool as a Fridge :rofl:

 

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On 7/4/2020 at 10:56 AM, PhantomShade said:

 

lol they could have continued to sell Xbone x instead of making new SKU.

 

During their July conference they could have announced it Don Mattrick style.

"Don't have 500 dollars? we have a product for you, it's called Xbox One X"

 

:rofl:

 

No One X got jaguar cpu and a mechanical HDD. Too dated now. Plus they already stopped manufacturing Xbox one systems now.

 

 

As far as TFLOPS are concerned then it will still give some advantage in terms of overall stable performance. PC cards are perfect example of it .

 

 

It's wrong to say they dont matter at all.

 

 

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On 7/4/2020 at 10:49 AM, Right said:

Lel.

It will be 1080p 30fps machine, as rumours J have read. Which os not bad at all if it comes for 249$.

 

Second, an insider has mentioned that Lockhart can be priced half that of XSX.

So 249/299 look very legit if they sell XSX for 499$
 

But I’m convinced that Sony will take a short term hit and go with 399$,, they have done it last two gens and while PS3 couldn’t win PS4 did.
 

PS5 at 399$ will kill both Lockhart and XSX. Market has shrunk a lot, spending is down due to corona, 20m Americans are unemployed, pricing matters more than ever.

It will still be faster machine than One X. Much better and stable in overall performance 

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18 hours ago, playstationdude said:

 

 

There will be a 40% performance increase on series X. So much powah, just STFU :chair: 

 

 

this gen cloud powah, next gen will be all about TF powah  :P 

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59 minutes ago, Big Boss said:

Source? ZodkaBSsource.com is making a comeback?

There is a Digital Foundry video where they compare AMD cards over the last few generations by limiting each to 4TF. 

The architecture improvements of each gen resulted in better performance when compared TF for TF. 

And in the end they try to mimic the new RDNA 2 architecture and find out that a 4TF RDNA 2 gpu should outperform One X's gpu.

Combined with better CPU and SSD, it should perform much better.

 

It's not a foolproof methodology but good enough especially coming from Digital Foundry.

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22 minutes ago, kunjanp said:

There is a Digital Foundry video where they compare AMD cards over the last few generations by limiting each to 4TF. 

The architecture improvements of each gen resulted in better performance when compared TF for TF. 

And in the end they try to mimic the new RDNA 2 architecture and find out that a 4TF RDNA 2 gpu should outperform One X's gpu.

Combined with better CPU and SSD, it should perform much better.

 

It's not a foolproof methodology but good enough especially coming from Digital Foundry.

But do we even know about specs of Lockhart or even it's official existence? Everything is speculation. So saying some hypothetical console will exist, and then it will have x number of TFs, and it will be powerful and stable is too much of hypothesis and something that will be posted on zodkaBSsource.com which went down after last gen launch.

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26 minutes ago, Big Boss said:

But do we even know about specs of Lockhart or even it's official existence? Everything is speculation. So saying some hypothetical console will exist, and then it will have x number of TFs, and it will be powerful and stable is too much of hypothesis and something that will be posted on zodkaBSsource.com which went down after last gen launch.

Not gonna comment on Zodka but before the Ps5 and Xbox Series X were shown off, they were speculations and hypothetical too. But some speculations carry much more weight than others and one can take a logical guess if the industry is making this much noise about lockhart that it's coming. 

It's same with CPU's and GPU's, before the new 3000 series RTX cards comes out we can't say AMD won't beat them but we can make a logical guess.

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