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I can’t tell the difference between 1080p and native 4K on my 55 inch C9 oled. I was pretty disappointed because some people were saying it’s a night and day difference. Maybe if I got a 65 inch instead? I didn’t because it was $1,000 more.

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Modern TVs are really good at upscaling content to 4K, so I don’t think you’re alone.

I think the framerate will be a much more noticeable difference. The difference between 30fps and 60fps is like a revelation for my eyes.

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Fun that Digital foundry are playing their reaction video to the reveal… when they were in Redmond back in March 2020.

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The memory bandwidth on the XSS are weird. 8GB at 224GB/sec, but 2GB at 56GB/sec.

10GB overall is also weird. I would have guessed at 12 gigs.

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I’m sure the 2GB at slower speed will be what’s used by the OS.

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Which leaves 8 GB for both game and VRAM.

That seems awfully small for a “1440p” next gen machine.

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The DF video does a good job of discussing this about 17min 30 into the video.

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So Ubisoft thing highlighted an issue with their naming scheme

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Ok, maybe they finished that trailer before the S was announced, but what are they going to put there? Xbox Series? They don’t differentiate between PS4 and Pro or Xbox One and One X. But Series could get confusing and imply all Xboxes when it may at some point be S and X only.

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Before they announced the S, it was outed by them using the symbol already on a controller box, so this is what they’re going with:

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Basically a Xbox Series X|S

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Series Pipe Delimited

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Good thing they went with that order, or teenage graffiti artists would have a field day.

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Are you playing games in “Game Mode” so that all features are turned on for gaming?

These guys are good for settings.

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Yep, I used their settings, thanks.

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The tldr is they are a bit worried about the memory. It’s really betting on the new SSD texture swapping to make a a big difference. It also likely rules out directly running One X mode games, and will have to fall back to One S mode unless a special version is made, since it won’t have enough memory.

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It’s headlines like this that make me shake my head about younger generations. Is this concept really so hard to understand? It’s an installment plan for the hardware and you get Game Pass free during the period you’re paying.

It’s only been a couple years since this was the standard way people paid for their phones, and that was a system that lived for 10+ years.

This is not that complicated, people.

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Those people were all on their parent’s plan. All they knew was they got an iPhone for Christmas every few years.

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I noticed a few weeks back that the box art for an upcoming game (The Falconeer? I think?) just says ‘Xbox’- not Series *, or One or whatever, just ‘Xbox’, as part of the Smart Delivery thing. It plays on Xbox, and will modify itself to the hardware you have.

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Also if you happen to buy say a Ryzen 3700 and an Ampere 3070 for a new PC… you get Valhalla with the CPU and Legion with the GPU, so they loom large for new PCs right now too.

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It’s cheaper to just buy a console and get the ultimate pass as you need it since it goes on sale often. Also, that way you aren’t stuck with 2 years of ultimate if you decide you don’t want it.