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New Xbox will be '5 times more powerful' than PS4 Neo, rocks 10 TFLOPs
New Xbox will be '5 times more powerful' than PS4 Neo, rocks 10 TFLOPs
An unverified source told Italian games insider x-ray that Microsoft isn't going to counter Sony's PlayStation Neo with an Xbox One upgrade, but instead make the jump to the next generation. The insider claims the new Xbox NeXt will be extremely powerful and eclipse Sony's 4K-upscaled PS4 Neo, with performance up to 5-6 times that of the Neo with an insane 10 TFLOPs compute performance. Keep in mind the following quotes are translated, so there may be some margin of error.
"I got to to read some slides from Microsoft and AMD about the new Xbox, it is in effect a new model, not a re-visitation of one. They should announce this year at a separate event at E3 2016, but still a few days before fair. the announcement will be made this year but the release of the Xbox next is expected no earlier than next spring, to read the roadmap. It will be open to change hardware, I did not understand if via upgrade or if talking about modifications which may operate on-the-fly, before the release, it will be already extremely powerful starting, I think 5-6 times PS4 Neo, we are something in the order of over 10 TFLOPS, or so. "
Even still, take these reports with a huge salt shaker full of sodium chloride. These specs are pretty insane in console standards, and represent a huge leap from what we current have on the market.
I mean the concept makes sense to me. Forget a mid-cycle refresh. Just end the cycle year 4.
Cartridges, I wouldn't mind. I've wondered for a few years now why they still bother with optical discs. Having 15-GB patches because Halo: TMCCwas 60+ GB at launch was awful. Sell a formatted, 128-GB flash drive that you can take to a store and buy a digital copy with. Let BB and GS and whoever have their owner little servers where someone can buy a game, load it up, and take it home. I only suggest that because selling a game with a 128-GB flash drive in the box would drive game prices up, which would suck (then again, setting up nationwide servers would do the same at first).
Sounds like a decent idea but if you want to keep all your games you would run into a few issues. Unless they make the internal HD of the system swappable so you could install a bigger one and load the games on there.That's actually a very good idea. Big local HD (like a SSHD for the speed boost!) and games shipping on an optional SD card.
$50 for digital download, $60 for FULL working version 1.x on a 16-64GB SD card. I think it'd work... piracy could be an issue through workarounds though....
Sounds like a decent idea but if you want to keep all your games you would run into a few issues. Unless they make the internal HD of the system swappable so you could install a bigger one and load the games on there.
Or offer those who got the digital copy unlimited downloads to the game. I can't imagine how many people would lose those little flash drives too.
They wouldn't do it without strong DRM though, there would be a huge piracy issue with flash drives unless they were only made to work with the system. But then again memory cards and flash drives are universal and anything of that nature can be cracked over time.
In that case then it is pretty simple and people can bring their own drive. I would be for digital if they dropped the price by $10. I usually always buy disc copies so I can trade them in when I'm done if I don't feel the worth of keeping the games.Technically, we already have something like that in place. You can put games on an external HDD but it only works when logged into XBL. Very simple, you have to log into XBL at the store, download the game and then it's linked to your account. When you get home, in order to play, log in again and the game is associated with the console. Today, I can get a USB 3.0 drive for around $30.
In that case then it is pretty simple and people can bring their own drive. I would be for digital if they dropped the price by $10. I usually always buy disc copies so I can trade them in when I'm done if I don't feel the worth of keeping the games.
Huh? No, consoles don't always skimp on power, this generation they did it to save costs so they wouldn't lose money on every system sold like they did last generation and to keep heat issues down. Xbox 360 and PS3 were fairly powerful when released.No way this rumor is true, consoles always skimp on the hardware like a mother buzzer. If a new gaming console came out this year I wouldn't be thinking Titan. I'd be thinking... oh... GTX 950 ish. Tops. (and likely paired with an ancient low end CPU) They always lag behind PCs.
No way this rumor is true, consoles always skimp on the hardware like a mother buzzer. If a new gaming console came out this year I wouldn't be thinking Titan. I'd be thinking... oh... GTX 950 ish. Tops. (and likely paired with an ancient low end CPU) They always lag behind PCs.
You know, I think the average consumer would be happier to have a bulkier game console with affordable-but-speedy desktop PC-class video solution than a thin, expensive one with a laptop-class (or otherwise proprietary) design.
Very few people care about how many theoretical max throughput a console has. Games, friends, price are the 3 things 99% of people care about. And even when there are glaring issues with a game, nobody complains the consoles aren't powerful enough. Nobody said "Man, Blighttown has awful performance! If only the Xbox 360 was more powerful!" Nobody said "Man, if I look at this beautiful water, DS2 becomes a slide show. If only the PS3 was more powerful!" No, they said "Man, From, get your stuff together, because this is terrible."
10 tflops you say?
980 TI - Peak Compute - 5.63 TFLOPS
yea I find this doubtful
Correct, but this launches in the future, not now. Also, it seems to be bucking console trends and may be making an expensive/risky power play against Sony. Basically, capitalize on it being the first upgradable generation (well, original XBOX was X86 also) by letting Sony make the first move and then countering it with a move Sony can't reasonably match within the life of this platform.you can do it now
you cant and wont be able to do it for 400/500$ which is what consoles target