Xbox Series X Discussion

DrDamn

Gammerz you mean to take them round a friend’s place with your games installed? Or do you want to use them on a PC?

Gammerz

DrDamn Other PC. I think they’re XBox specific, rather like the old X360 memory cards?

DrDamn

Gammerz Yes, links in to special decompression chip and the rest of the system. It’s not just the card that is custom but the interface too.

Gammerz

Just found this about external expansion. Must run new games off internal or proprietary external faster SSD drives. Maybe use existing external drives to transfer onto faster SSD.

Jogort

Looks bloody impressive to be honest, Sony will have to bring their A game to compete and I’m hoping for something similar. The 1tb memory cards are interesting 🤣

Gammerz

Jogort Yeah, I think the proprietary memory cards are a mistake (another MS h/w money-making blunder). I think/hope Sony will have a standard external SSD option. How many owners needed additional storage on current gen?

Brave

Me for definite. I think the proprietary route is more about maintaining those blistering fast load times etc rather than simply making money.

They’ve been on the back foot for years in terms of hardware and I think they’re going all in on making sure that doesn’t happen again.

DrDamn

Agree with @Brave - they need to be proprietary to offer the functionality and features they are offering. Yes they will price gouge the units, but they aren’t necessary. You can still install X1 software on an external HDD or SSD if you want. Both MS and Sony seem to be doing something very impressive with SSD hardware and the way it is tied in with the rest of the components means it will effectively outperform PC hardware for a while. You wouldn’t get that with an external SSD over a standard interface, simply not possible.

Alex

Full DF lowdown, they’ve been to Redmond and had hands-on with the system.

Jogort

Yeah that’s the videos in drdamns link, very interesting indeed

Gammerz

Looks very tightly packed - hope the airflow is ok, even with a large fan.

Jonbwfc

Gammerz Text of the article said they ran it fairly hard for quite a while and it didn’t generate any enormous amount of heat. You’d kind of hope out was something MS were VERY careful about, given their history…

Gammerz

Isn’t that green fan cover going to block the ventilation?

DrDamn

Gammerz looks like the airflow goes around it …

Gammerz

Fans draw air in along their axis; it’s a corkscrew (like early propellers), not sideways as in that animation.

DrDamn

Gammerz It’s blowing out.

Gammerz

It’s a fan not a waterwheel!

DrDamn

Gammerz that directs air up and outward of the top of the console.

Jonbwfc

It’s a very similar design to the old ‘wastebin’ Mac Pro. Apparently that worked extremely well, very quiet, little risk of overheating.

DrDamn

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/7/21211740/microsoft-xbox-one-guide-dashboard-update-ui

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