Unsure if you’re joking, but sure, it’s possible. Depends on the game. The Touryst did it.
Menzo
1706
Of course they did. Everyone wants more of everything for less money. But if the Series S was too close to the Series X in capability Microsoft would risk people just deciding it’s good enough.
There needs to be some consumer pain in exchange for the lower price or there’s no choice to be made.
stusser
1707
Even if it’s a straight-up RDNA1 5500XT, the XSS would be more than capable of 1080p at 30fps in every game likely to come out in the next 5 years. 60fps, not so much.
Bookmark this then to prove me wrong, I wager within a year of launch there will be games that cannot run on the XSS at a locked 1080p30. There will be games that will either fluctuate in frame rate, or use dynamic resolution scaling.
stusser
1709
Yeah, I would be extremely surprised if that happens, if the rumored specs are accurate of course.
I’d agree with WS on “locked”. There are plenty of games out now that contemporary hardware doesn’t run at locked 1080p 30. No reason to believe that will change for Series S if people are targeting PS5/Series X/3080+ power levels.
You’re not talking about launch when you talk about Xbox 360 Arcade.
Xbox 360 launched with 20GB of space. Xbox 360 Core had 256MB built in.
stusser
1712
Well, it was a long-ass time ago! Same difference, 256MB is seriously unusable. It was castrated.
@Ginger_Yellow: Which games can’t be played at 1080p30 these days? You mean MS flight sim?
That’s obviously the first one that springs to mind, but from watching DF videos it’s very common for games to dip below 30 even on Pro/X. And that’s not even talking about dynamic resolution dipping below 1080p
stusser
1714
Ahhh by contemporary hardware you mean current-gen consoles. Sure, even the XboneX is only like a RX580.
One dumb thing about this announcement is we now finally see the Series S, its price and launch date. But the console that’s been out there visible since last year still doesn’t have a price or technically a date although I assume its Nov 10th too.
Stop dicking around MS, be truly aggressive and announce it all and open up pre-orders to get the jump and just say “Your move Sony”. This mish mash of announcements has zero consistency or logic to it.
I know we’ve all seen the leak, and the official Tweet, but here’s the actual video:
Looks like they had all this marketing material queued up to go, I guess their hand didn’t get forced too much.
They’re less than two months to release. I imagine everything is locked and loaded by now. But Sony and MS are like cowboys at high noon, waiting for the other to draw.
The launch date is leaked info, not officially confirmed yet for either model. As for prices, MS was likely confident its Series S price was low enough to make a splash. I don’t think that changes the game if chicken they have been playing with Sony for the main product, even though it’s annoying.
stusser
1720
That’s an unfortunate song to use, “Let Me Hear You”, when showing a device that looks like a boxy speaker.
It’s designed to hit a price point, not serve a use case…
The Core edition was the one that came with a wired controller, and that you couldn’t save games at all unless you paid $40 for an official memory card.
No, the Core had none. Build in storage came later.
More like 900p@25-30. With dynamic resolution dropping to 720p.
Yep. And I agree with that while being a fan of Xbox One anyway.
That’s right! I was trying to find all the info on it today and it’s been totally obfuscated on the Wikipedia pages. Those initial specs, which at the time were a joke to everyone, are really not easily found, as you can see from my post! They sold it like that for over a year too!
stusser
1724
Yeah, I vaguely remember that. So rather than effectively unusable, literally unusable.
Anyway, the XSS is totally usable.
