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The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !
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spronk
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Izo
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Xbox Series S Spawns a Flood of Memes
Yesterday's information about Xbox Series S caused a real storm on the web, and the most exciting part is the look of the new console. Internet users compare the device to various characters and devices - among others, a washing machine, a cooker and a tape recorder.
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nu_11
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meStevo
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Step up your game with Dolby
Elevate your game with the lifelike visuals of Dolby Vision and the spatial sound of Dolby Atmos.
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Xbox and Dolby redefine next-gen gaming
With support for Dolby Atmos® games at launch and Dolby Vision® games coming in 2021, the Xbox Series X and Series S will be the first consoles ever to enable gaming in both Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos.
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Crone
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Fuck. I have game pass and just bought a year of ea play on steam.
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Xexx
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I feel Sony assumed Xbox would be 599 - they planned to release price thursday then MS just went "gotcha!" and they announced nothing. I Feel the PS5 will be like 549 or something and they cant figure out how to get it to 499 w/o some unexpected loss.
Furthermore f 2020 because all this shit would have been known in June but all this pussyfooting till 2 months before release is stupid
Furthermore f 2020 because all this shit would have been known in June but all this pussyfooting till 2 months before release is stupid
Ritley
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More and more it seems likely Sony screwed the pooch a bit on the hardware side (at least compared to Microsoft). They are lucky that they can still ride the wave of their first party titles.
Even if the xsex is a bit more powerful I think Sony could match the price and do just fine. The argument would be a (likely) minor performance hit but with a much stronger exclusive lineup at the same price is reasonable. It becomes less reasonable if you then have to rationalize paying more for worse hardware.
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Utnayan
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Hardware is a loss lead that most do not care about save Nintendo who still goes to market with hardware on margin in mind.
Both MS and Sony are concentrated on the base/market install and know it will be made up over software licensing in spades with the more they get.
Both MS and Sony are concentrated on the base/market install and know it will be made up over software licensing in spades with the more they get.
Utnayan
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I think cost alone was estimated to be 450 range on the PS5 without logistics. I cannot imagine MS's console is not equal or more. MS continually runs on the trojan horse theory though and they can reflect the market on Gamepass/ultimate subs and live services where they are most likely outshining PS here.
meStevo
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Sony's made that mistake before, iirc at one point PS3 had lost them so much money early on that it consumed practically all the profits from the PS2 era. Attributed in part to it being the cheapest Blu-ray player so the game attach rate was ass.
Ritley
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Series S won’t even be able to play XboneX version of games, only XBoneS versions with some improvements like HDR and improved frame rates. Wonder how much it would have cost them to put 12gb if RAM in there, or if that is even the only reason it can’t run XBoneX versions.
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Xbox Series S won’t run Xbox One X versions of backwards compatible games | VGC
Microsoft confirms cheaper next-gen console will run One S versions with its own enhancements…
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Nester
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i dunno i was a pc master gamer in the 90s
Is that you in the Red with Underwear longer than your shorts?
Lan parties bring back some fun memories.
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Wow, so they made a 'cheap' console superior to the X1X in every way then gimped the whole thing to save the cost of 2GB of RAM? Even if changing the RAM config had bumped the cost to 349 it still seems like they'd have to be retarded not to go that route.Series S won’t even be able to play XboneX version of games, only XBoneS versions with some improvements like HDR and improved frame rates. Wonder how much it would have cost them to put 12gb if RAM in there, or if that is even the only reason it can’t run XBoneX versions.
Xbox Series S won’t run Xbox One X versions of backwards compatible games | VGC
Microsoft confirms cheaper next-gen console will run One S versions with its own enhancements…
On the bright side, I would never buy a Series S anyway and I was worried that my X would be completely gutted in trade/sale value due to the $299 price tag, but maybe that's not the case now.
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I'm pretty sure the RAM is not the limiting factor here, but the scaled down GPU which must be way easier to get good yields for AMD and thus cost way less to MS.
Edit: duh ,did not realize we were talking about backward compatible games, thought we were talking about Series X enhancements on the Series S.
Edit: duh ,did not realize we were talking about backward compatible games, thought we were talking about Series X enhancements on the Series S.