Xbox one X Specs and price

Dragnelus

At Microsoft’s E3 briefing, the company revealed a load of new information about the Xbox Scorpio. Not least its name, which is now Xbox One X. But there was more. This mini monster is the smallest Xbox ever made, while managing to pack in more power than any other games console.

Xbox One X launch date: 7 November 2017.

Xbox One X price: £449/$499

More new info: The Xbox One X will be fully backwards-compatible with Xbox One games. Xbox One games will run better, look better (thanks to anisotropic filtering) and load faster.

On the technical side, there was some new information about the specs, in addition to what was revealed a couple of months back. The processor is cooled using a liquid vapour chamber, a technique that’s becoming more common on more compact devices. There’s a brand-new power-management system for the most efficient delivery of electricity seen on an Xbox console.

XBOX ONE X SPECS AND CONNECTIVITY

• CPU: Eight-core 2.3GHz processor
• GPU: 40 compute units at 1172MHz
• RAM: 12GB GDDR5 (shared between system and GPU)
• Bandwidth: 326GB/s
• Storage: 1TB hard disk
• Disc: UHD Blu-ray player
• Video: 4K output, HDR 10 support
• Audio: DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1 and Atmos, PCM 2.0, 5.1, 7.1
• Wireless: Bluetooth, dual-band Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Direct, IR blaster
• Connectors: 2x HDMI (2.0b out, 1.4b in), 3x USB 3.0 ports, IR out, S/PDIF, Ethernet

cameltosis

I'm a little out of touch with the console crowd, but what is the point of the Xbox One X?

I mean, sure, the specs look alright, but surely the majority of developers are still going to be making their games for the whole Xbox One range, not just targeting this new version? So, is this new version purely to support VR? 

Vrika

cameltosis said:

I'm a little out of touch with the console crowd, but what is the point of the Xbox One X?

I mean, sure, the specs look alright, but surely the majority of developers are still going to be making their games for the whole Xbox One range, not just targeting this new version? So, is this new version purely to support VR? 

Supporting 4K resolution is more important point. Most new TVs already support 4K, so people are going to want a console that can run their games at 4K.

gervaise1

NVidia, Intel, AMD etc. come out with more powerful components. If Microsoft don't upgrade their offering the Xbox 1 will lose sales to Sony, Nintendo and off-the-shelf "PCs".

At the end of the day the difference between an Xbox 1 running Windows 10 stuff and a PC running Windows 10 stuff is ...... depending on what you want to do .....

Phry

Vrika said:

cameltosis said:

I'm a little out of touch with the console crowd, but what is the point of the Xbox One X?

I mean, sure, the specs look alright, but surely the majority of developers are still going to be making their games for the whole Xbox One range, not just targeting this new version? So, is this new version purely to support VR? 

Supporting 4K resolution is more important point. Most new TVs already support 4K, so people are going to want a console that can run their games at 4K.

4K is fine, but outside of Forza, the games seem to be limited, still, to 30 fps, all the games that were advertised will be available on PC too, where they will run at 60 fps, but the interesting thing is that while the new xbox will support games from the old xbox, microsoft are no longer saying that devs will have to make games that are on the new xbox, capable of being run on the old xbox, which means they can make full use of the more powerful hardware available.

cameltosis

Meh, I still don't approve. 

I can just about understand them wanting to release a console with VR support, but in my opinion it would be better to wait a few years and then release an actual new xbox and beat the competition by being first with the next generation of VR. 

But the 4k support...they already released an xbox version with 4k support: the xbox one s. 


Feels very much like just another excuse to wring more money out of the playerbase. The core experience of playing games isn't going to change at all. 

Reizla

Nice specs, but as I already said on the PS4 subreddit, this console is way out of range with the XB1. The extra power will not really be used since it's overkill for 4K gaming only. I'd wager that most developers won't even put any effort in the whole XB1X thing for that reason. The games would grow too much in space because they need to be both XB1 and XB1X compatible.

MS should have done as SONY did and make a console that's slightly more powerful, nor harming it's downward compatibility. XB1X has either 2 ways to go from here:
1. die a lonely death because of previous mentioned reasons
2. be the 'uber-XB1 console' with a lot of games that run only on the XB1X and kill the XB1 in the mean time.

Both options are bad for MS. Option #1 kinda kills XB1X sales, while #2 kills probably both because people feel betrayed by MS and don't wanna chance the XB1X for it's successor and similar problems...