It will probably be quite quiet because of the gigantic heat sink. The original Xbox One is barely audible because the fan doesn’t need to work very hard. The PS4 is tiny and always running its fan so it is much more jet-like.
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remember 3d tvs?
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Oh there’s a VR thing they’re doing that separate from Holo Lens, they just haven’t said anything about it yet. I’m pretty much sure of that. That will be probably start getting rolled out next year.
And yeah I love that the most innovative thing about this is probably their liquid cooled heat sink thing they developed specifically for it. I’m very interested in how much heat it gives off. The One S has one half of the console cover as a giant vent with vents on the sides and while it’s always super quiet since it doesn’t use fans it gets warm during use or while downloading (even when it turned off and downloading) but never actually hot like the PS4/Pro can get.
Also if you want to get into profitability remember that they’re likely selling user data even if they say they aren’t. These aren’t movie tickets they’re selling they’re essentially tendrils of the giant techno-surveillance octopus that silhouettes our society who knows what kind of top secret government contracts these tech companies have and how that figures into their design and marketing of their latest passive-spying devices.
Meh. I wouldn’t bet that they’d do their own VR, but maybe they will. Generally, MS is good about letting others create hardware that works well with their software, rather than cannibalizing their partners by competing with them in the same arena. And there are a ton of hats in the VR arena right now. If it takes off, it will be as competitive as cell phones, and maybe even as profitable, given that selling cell phones apparently isn’t actually that profitable if you’re not a Chinese start up. Holo Lens works for them, specifically because no one else is taking that approach.
But yeah: MS hardware is always pretty cool. They seem to get really really good people for their hardware. Apparently the cooling system is sort of just an upgrade on stuff Nvidia is already doing, but the Hovis Method stuff sounds pretty cool. Maybe it’s just bs, though–I wouldn’t really know.
uh
that is not quite true
however you should assume any console game you’re playing while online is tracking your gameplay and any AAA dev has at least one analytics person looking at it. They’re still 3-5 years behind what mobile game companies do though
A $500 price will look like a bargain, if IDC’s Lewis Ward turns out to be correct. “I estimate the basic hardware will cost around $650, so if Microsoft wants any kind of margin at all, Scorpio will have to retail for $700 or more.”
BULLSHIT
I’ve heard mine spin up real bad with the fan grills uncovered in some games and if I have something on top, it’ll squeal for death just booting games
the PS4 is loud but it at least it has the decency to shoot hot air though its rear, letting you put stuff on top of it
Whoa, really?
Maybe I’m not pushing it to the limit enough.
I have my Switch dock (and had my Wii U) on the non-vent portion of the top, so that’s alright.
as someone with an Xbox 1 on top of their Xbox One, I am probably a fringe case
(the Xbone is bigger, for the record)
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And has a non-integrated PSU, unlike the OG IIRC.
“a genuine game-changer”
and
“currently no tv on the market supports it”
monitors do though, but I agree it’s not much of a selling point for that reason
frankly I wouldn’t be surprised if they can patch that into the current PS4 chipset the way they did HDR though, it was in all(?) of AMD’s 28nm APUs already
Yeah I’ve come around to not gaming on a computer monitor much at all anymore because it’s not as big as a tv.
At some point I will build a decent-ish steambox and hook that up to my tv and just do all my pc gaming that way.
I keep being tempted to shitpost a friend of mine who’s a Scorpio flashing this thread
anyway I’m glad that Microsoft are releasing another console that’s just a PC slightly worse than the one I’ve had all along so I’ll be sure to be able to run anything that actually gets published for it
Everyone is going on and on about backwards compatibility with the Xbone and the 360 but no one at Microsoft has confirmed backwards compatibility with this Xbox 360 Death Smiles faceplate I accidentally bought for $20 from an Amazon Marketplace seller because I thought it was the actual game.
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I hope that 360 virtualization comes to Win10 along with old Halo games. No more Xbones for me in that case.
has there been any documentation of whether the 360 backwards compatibility on the bone is straight up JIT emulation or is it like the original Xbox on the 360 where they’d actually recompiled games to PPC on an individual basis and would download patches to be used with the original on-disk assets?
they probably don’t want to just let their JIT loose on windows if it’s the former (it would be really easy to hack out the part that requires original media, or spoof it one way or another), though the upside is that xenia could technically catch up in that case