[RUMOR] Nextgen Xboxes to be revealed at E3 19, Halo Infinite to be launch title
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I'm interested to see the exact specs for the next Gen XBOX because I know Sony is actually putting a bunch of money into AMD's Navi for their PS5.
There were rumors that Microsoft will release a "stream-only" console so it could maybe be used for that, or maybe there will be similar specs across all the different Xbox systems that are in development right now.
The more that I think about it the more I think its true. If they kept the M.2 form factor it would make it really use for users to upgrade the hard drive. This was a big short coming for the Xbone.
It could then keep a smaller ssd for the OS, which might be the meaning of 1TB and 1GB
Because nothing this gen really had the impact of last gen's games, IMO.
I have a convincing bullshit theory for why it will be the Xbox 2.
We're currently on the Xbox 1. Before that was the Xbox 360 - or, more prosaically, the Xbox O or Xbox 0. So they are simply incrementing by one, they just didn't start from a sensible number like 0 or 1. By this logic, the 2001 console should be referred to as the Xbox -1, and of course the successor should be the Xbox 2. It will probably be stylized as something like "Xbox ||", but however they spell it, it will be pronounced Xbox 2.
All First Party Microsoft Titles have been getting simultaneous PC releases for a while, it was a promise made at E3 2016 or something.
Plus the Official Halo Infinite site says it is coming to Windows 10.
tbh always wanted one, I really need to the moment I do a new build, its just excellent
Xbox is using Navi and Zen2 as well.
It's silly, MS and Sony have been using the exact same tech for 3 generations now. All because Microsoft bought the Cell specs off of IBM and made it better.
As of the past year or two, it isn't a rumor. Pretty much every 1st party MS game since has been a Play Anywhere title and its [mostly] seamless, which is actually very pro-consumer. At least, as pro-consumer as the Windows Store can be.
They need to muddy the waters even more, one of these should do it
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Even this isn't entirely accurate. This generation is actually pretty on par in terms of longevity.
For handhelds, it's been from 2011-to-now. The 3DS has been on the market for nearly 8 years (the Vita also released in 2011), while the Wii U came out in 2012 and the other systems in 2013. That's far longer than the DS was without a successor. (2004-2011)
If revealed at E3 2019, they'll probably release in Q4 2019 or Q1 2020, so about 7 years between the PS4/XB One and their successor.
2006-2013 was the time span that the PS3 was available for before the PS4 came out, also 7 years, so the 8th generation is on pace to be just as long even on the console side. The Wii U and Xbox 360 respectively extended their console generations, which makes for 8 in each case (2005-2012/2013, 2012/2013-2020).
Gen8 just didn't have much exciting happen. Wii U was the most exciting hardware around but poor marketing, third-party apathy (and intentional sabotage on EA's part), and the residual butthurt righteous fury of XxTrU_GaMrZxX over the original Wii's success still going strong were enough to doom it to an early grave. Xbone had some interesting ideas to start with but packaged them with Mattrick's anti-consumer BS, so Microsoft had to roll that all back and trundle along as a lesser PS4 clone for a few years as they played catch-up, making some genuinely cool but not very exciting moves. PS4 started out much the same, but did the same roll-back as Microsoft did while playing up the "for true gamers" card and so rocketed towards an easy win even despite its... *yawn* ... super-exciting hardware and initial library, especially in the first two years before Demon's Souls 4.
On the handheld side, 3DS had the whole autostereoscopy thing but any chance of that being seriously utilized was killed dead with the introduction of the 2DS in 2013 (it seems like a lot of stupid stuff happened in 2013, in retrospect) splitting the userbase, plus a lot of tech that ostensibly should've been part of the 3DS in the first place was held back until the New 3DS models. Meanwhile, Vita tried to push the envelope with what kind of specs you could get out of a handheld form-factor (and to be fair, was a fairly impressive piece of hardware) but outside of the rear touchpad, nothing was all that unique about it and its biggest push came from being bundled with the PS4 as a pseudo-GamePad as part of Sony's eternal imitation of Nintendo, rather than them trying to sell it on its own merits. I tell you, had they kept the PSP's TV-out port on the Vita itself, they could've beat Nintendo to the punch on Switch by a good six years, rather than the whole mess with Vita TV. Oh well.
Really, most of the hardware excitement during Gen8 went towards VR, which still isn't there yet even as we head into Gen9.
In other words: Gen8 was a farce. Shame, considering the excitement I had going into it.
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Ah yeah, can't wait for the Xbox 360 One and PlayStation (2019)
Or Xbox One Neo and Xbox One Architect.
I agree with all of this, except that VR thing. VR is affordable with PS4 and Oculus stuff, and it works fucking well. Thein issue is specs console wise. Gen9 should be able to deliver VR no problem.
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Putting my first grade pattern recognition skills to work.
No huge shift in hardware upgrades either.
I remember going from the 4th generation to the 5th brought with it mindblowing 3d environments, 5th to 6th brought online/system link multiplayer, built-in hard drives, DVDs and significantly improved graphics, 6th to 7th brought HD gaming to the mainstream (yes the PS2 and Xbox could do HD, but only with select games and most people didn't have HD TVs yet) and significantly expanded online functionality.
What happened when we went from 7th to 8th? Everyone standardised on Blurays, I guess, and 4K support started to come in, but it's in the same position as HD was during the 6th gen - early adopter tech with limited functionality. Besides, the jump from HD to 4K isn't nearly as impressive as the jump from SD to HD was. Eh.
Don’t forget the jump from SD to HD was also a jump from 4:3 to 16:9. That was also a big thing.
I thought microsoft wanted to step away from actually making consoles due to the XBONE being mostly a failure on that front ?
XBONE definitely had a rough launch but Sony's been consistently shooting themselves in a foot for the past few years and XBONE X shows better game performance than PS4 Pro so I don't think they will leave console market any time soon. They also have pretty meh exclusives but they bought 6 game studios in 2018 so they are certanly on a way to change this.
They're not stepping away from making consoles, just expanding so they can sell more games.
Before Phil Spencer came in the idea at Xbox was to get people to buy Xboxes. This is a fucking stupid idea for two reasons: 1, hey lose money on every Xbox sold so they need to sell games and services to make their money, 2, a lot of people will choose to simply not buy a console if a game they want is on only it because consoles are fucking expensive.
The idea now is to keep making and selling Xboxes as a simple game machine but to get the software on as many platforms as possible. Getting 10,000 people to buy Xboxes to play a game actually gets you less money than selling 20,000 copies directly to people who don't want an Xbox.
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