Xbox Series X

[LikeLinus]

Lol, so true how Sony screwed over their customers.

 

[cmdrdredd]

This is kind of funny but somewhat not surprising with the terrible naming convention.

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

I admit when I searched yesterday I saw that and almost thought it was series x myself at first glance.

 

[piokos]

Camped GameStop before 8am. They got 3 Series X and 2 series S. Me and two other guys were the only ones there until around 9:30 and after everyone heard the X was gone they left. Nobody wanted the S. I’m sure they will sell them today but I thought there would be a little interest in it for $300. I think everyone who showed up was a hardcore gamer and wanted to get the X. Anyway I got an X. Wanted a pa5 but at least I got something. Ps5 I’ll still hunt down at some point.

Honestly, why do you even do it? If pre-ordering is such a pain, why not wait and just buy when it launches (online or not)?

Big chunk of the gaming news I see currently is about people complaining about console pre-orders (mostly in US). WTF?

 

[purbeast0]

LOL.

 

[purbeast0]

People were using links on amazon to add the item to cart when you couldn’t search it on the actual site. By the time I found the link, it was all gone. It really did happen. Supposedly an insider leaked it out. Whether amazon shut that down and then rolled out the usual way I don’t know.

The Xbox Series X showed up in search results before it was available. That is how I got the product page. It showed as "currently unavailable" in the search results and when you clicked on the link, it went to a "sorry" page with dogs on it, but it was the product page.

Then I just refreshed like every minute or maybe more until one time it actually loaded and 2 seconds later I had it preordered.

 

[quikah]

Series X review units are in major journalist hands. Digital Foundry got one, not clear what embargo dates there are, they all just say soon.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Honestly, why do you even do it? If pre-ordering is such a pain, why not wait and just buy when it launches (online or not)?

Big chunk of the gaming news I see currently is about people complaining about console pre-orders (mostly in US). WTF?

Cause I want it

It would be the same hassle at launch with no units in stores initially and everything selling out online.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Series X review units are in major journalist hands. Digital Foundry got one, not clear what embargo dates there are, they all just say soon.

Already saw a game loading video comparison online. Xbox one x vs series x. Game loaded in about 15 seconds on series x and 50 seconds later the one x loaded.

 

[purbeast0]

Already saw a game loading video comparison online. Xbox one x vs series x. Game loaded in about 15 seconds on series x and 50 seconds later the one x loaded.

Yeah but that's old and no way that is running on actual hardware back in March.

Not saying that isn't how it will behave. I'm sure it will because they have been touting this for a very long time. I'm anxious to see what stuff is put out prior to launch.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Yeah but that's old and no way that is running on actual hardware back in March.

Not saying that isn't how it will behave. I'm sure it will because they have been touting this for a very long time. I'm anxious to see what stuff is put out prior to launch.

Thing is, this is not even a game leveraging the SSD. It’s a big difference anyhow.

 

[purbeast0]

Thing is, this is not even a game leveraging the SSD. It’s a big difference anyhow.

Well in theory there should be no load times at all on games built FOR the SSD.

 

[quikah]

Yeah but that's old and no way that is running on actual hardware back in March.

Not saying that isn't how it will behave. I'm sure it will because they have been touting this for a very long time. I'm anxious to see what stuff is put out prior to launch.

There is a Series X in the video (hard to see since it is dark, looks like One X on the left). Prototype hardware has existed for a VERY long time. Digital Foundry did a teardown (buildup really) of it back in March also.

 

[purbeast0]

There is a Series X in the video (hard to see since it is dark, looks like One X on the left), . Prototype hardware has existed for a VERY long time. Digital Foundry did a teardown of it back in March also.

Prototype hardware != actual real hardware in final version

 

[quikah]

Prototype hardware != actual real hardware in final version

From my prototype hardware experience (Intel and AMD servers) it is usually pretty close, especially just 6 months out. Usually the hardware is final by then, with lots of software updates.

 

[purbeast0]

From my prototype hardware experience (Intel and AMD servers) it is usually pretty close, especially just 6 months out. Usually the hardware is final by then, with lots of software updates.

Never said it wasn't pretty close.

My point is that it just wasn't actual final production hardware that we will have in our homes in 2 months. And I'll wait to see what everything looks like on that before forming an opinion. Been following consoles too long to know how many little tricks they try to play prior to launch.

Hell pretty much every game MS has shown us wasn't even running on Xbox hardware and they have shown us stuff in the past month that was running on a PC with "similar specs" to the final hardware. Most of the videos they've shown have that little footnote in the corner.

 

[LikeLinus]

Word on the street is that the Xbox Series X SSD will run 20% faster than that of the video and that the PS5 SSD will run significantly slower. That was what I heard from people who work at Gamestop and their test unit.

I'm like, in the know and shit. Don't form an opinion or talk about anything that a Gamestop employ and my homies on the street haven't talked about. WORD!

 

[cmdrdredd]

Old news but I just found out, because I didn’t pay attention, that a cyberpunk 2077 won’t see a series x or ps5 enhanced version until 2021. Guess I’m going to wait to play it then. I want to experience it properly.

 

[A///]

LOL.

Read this about 4x before I realized what was up. MS screwed up with their naming.

 

[Saylick]

Read this about 4x before I realized what was up. MS screwed up with their naming.

MS should have just done a hard reset on their console naming...
It's clear now that they have an S and X line-up so they should just numerically count up from there.

For example:
- Xbox S/X
- Xbox S2/X2
- Xbox S3/X3
- etc

 

[A///]

MS should have just done a hard reset on their console naming...
It's clear now that they have an S and X line-up so they should just numerically count up from there.

For example:
- Xbox S/X
- Xbox S2/X2
- Xbox S3/X3
- etc

I like that! Numerical advancement. It's weird because Sony does it so well... on their Playstation. Their other products have convoluted names that aren't easy to remember.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I like that! Numerical advancement. It's weird because Sony does it so well... on their Playstation. Their other products have convoluted names that aren't easy to remember.

They could have pulled a sega and come up with a unique name for each (i.e. Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast).

 

[A///]

They could have pulled a sega and come up with a unique name for each (i.e. Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast).

How popular were the later Segas? I had the earlier consoles myself but then became a Sony person the rest of my life until I hung up my hat on consoles. Of everyone I knew back in the day, only one person had the Dreamcast. It was the only way to play the Crazy Taxi games outside of an arcade shoppe.

 

[Aikouka]

How popular were the later Segas? I had the earlier consoles myself but then became a Sony person the rest of my life until I hung up my hat on consoles. Of everyone I knew back in the day, only one person had the Dreamcast. It was the only way to play the Crazy Taxi games outside of an arcade shoppe.

The Genesis was pretty much their only highly popular console (at least in the US). In my opinion, the Saturn hurt them the most given it was expensive (Sony famously undercut them at CES) and had poor third-party support. That doesn’t even include the botched launch that makes the PS5 and XSX look good. (They announced immediate availability with little notice to retailers or decent stock.)

The book “Console Wars” is an interesting read in regard to what went down at Sega (Sega of Japan and Sega of America), Nintendo, and Sony. You can find out about how Sega of America tried to convince Sega of Japan to use Silicon Graphics in the Saturn, but they refused. In an act of frustration, SoA gave SGI Nintendo’s contact information instead. (That’s why it was used in the N64.)

 

[quikah]

MS should have just done a hard reset on their console naming...
It's clear now that they have an S and X line-up so they should just numerically count up from there.

For example:
- Xbox S/X
- Xbox S2/X2
- Xbox S3/X3
- etc

People apparently can't be bothered to read One and Series, what makes you think they can read 2, 3, etc?

 

[cmdrdredd]

How popular were the later Segas? I had the earlier consoles myself but then became a Sony person the rest of my life until I hung up my hat on consoles. Of everyone I knew back in the day, only one person had the Dreamcast. It was the only way to play the Crazy Taxi games outside of an arcade shoppe.

In certain circles they were extremely well received. Namely fight game fanatics. They just didn’t have good marketing behind them and not enough developers on board. They couldn’t match Sony for one.