Yeah some are dirt cheap now, a no brand 46" one from Sainsburys was on sale for £340 last week
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Xbox One S has additional CPU/GPU power, games can look and run better
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Yeah some are dirt cheap now, a no brand 46" one from Sainsburys was on sale for £340 last week
Not every 4K TV has HDR.
The Faceless Master
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Boss Mog
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JetBlackPanda
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It's going to be funny watching Microsoft still struggle and not understand why more FLOPS doesn't mean more sales
Glass Shark
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The source is the head of a first party studio. If this weren't true, it would mean he was either lying or misinformed. Neither one of those seems likely.
I mean, it's coming straight from the studio head. It's likely to have a bit of a boost simply from moving to a new die but the question is how much, and how will affect games that use dynamic resolutions like Gears 4, Halo 5, Doom and so on.
Probably due to clearance. I would expect this to take it's place.
brokenbeans
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So I AM buying one.
It's honestly gotten to the point where I don't think Microsoft can do anything to get a large increase in sales *shrug*
Mr. Pointy
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Yeah I figured they'd give the S an overclock.
When did they apply that more Flops automatically mean more sales ? Hardware power is def. the reason why PS4 game look/perform better than Xbox One games, which is why many chose the PS4 for multiplatform titles.
No it doesn't, and the cheap ones especially won;t have, but the resolution bump alone will be nice for some i'm sure, i held out specifically for the new Samsung HDR models released in the last month or two, and it is truelu something else with Native 4k HDR content.
I guarantee it doesn't do HDR. I have a pretty good Samsung 4K 55" that I got around Christmas and it doesn't either.
SEGAvangelist
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Awesome. Getting this day one.
No, Many chose PS4 for MS's initial brainfart of all SKU's Kinect bundled always online DRM, takes people a while to forget what happened with the original launch announcement, although clearly some forget quicker than others.
Unknown Soldier
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They'll soon discover why people consider it a mistake when previous consoles began fragmenting their hardware install base.
Meanwhile all Sony does is show awesome games for an hour straight instead of announcing a new console and then another new console. How many people do they really expect will buy the Xbox One 3 times?
They've killed sales of Xbox One S stone cold dead immediately after announcing it, who's going to waste money on the S when the Scorpio is coming next year? MS needs to Google what the Osborne effect is. There's a reason why Sony is saying literally nothing about the Neo and can barely admit it even exists.
Jessie.Bristol
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So is Xbox One S using the RX 460?
Art Vandilay
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If true, I'll probably buy one.
The sauce is actually a new console, though.
Well with no RROD this time round they have to do something right?
...Scatter...
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I don't play sales figures. I play FLOPS. The more the merrier. This S console is probably just enough juice to flatten some FPS wrinkles in hairy moments. No biggie.
7DollarHagane
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Alright I am back in, gonna get the $400 one in August.
I have some digital games from my old Xbox one I wouldnt mind having access too again. And master chief, and rare replay.
I sold mine earlier this year because I wanted to get a 970 and got $200 for it. Not the best course of action but surely nobodys giving $200 for those old Xbox ones now.
I have some digital games from my old Xbox one I wouldnt mind having access too again. And master chief, and rare replay.
I sold mine earlier this year because I wanted to get a 970 and got $200 for it. Not the best course of action but surely nobodys giving $200 for those old Xbox ones now.
rokkerkory
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I don't think so
Rellik
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Xbox Pisces
kingwingin
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it was in the power brick all along and they finaly did the fusion dance
...Scatter...
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C3PO duh
I need an XBOX Libra, but i'm so undecided.
BleedOrange
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I'm gonna need to know how many flops this thing got ASAP.
Also, good to hear Gears 4 is being mastered in 4k. The Scorpio upgrade will look phenomenal.
Also, good to hear Gears 4 is being mastered in 4k. The Scorpio upgrade will look phenomenal.
They haven't killed sales of the S. It'll do well, especially as the cheapest UHD Blu-ray player on the market. They also don't expect people to buy each console. They want you to buy in when you're ready and upgrade when you want. They providing the option if a high-end model where you can move to if you want and know everything you own, games and accessories, will work just fine when you do buy it.
It's coming from a first party studio head. It's in all likelihood true, its just a question of how significant of a boost is it?
This seems like such a shitty view to have....
Nah. The One S is going to sell well.
It's number 1 on Amazon already. I know, I know it's meaningless...But I think some are underestimating it.
https://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-video-games/zgbs/videogames/ref=sv_vg_12
terrdactycalsrock
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I just dont know if all of these different boxes are a good idea. Im all for more powerful hardware, thats why I play games on PC. Thats why when I see news like this, or for the neo, or for scorpio I just ignore it. Its never going to amount to the power I can get from upgrading my PC. Then I think that maybe its a good idea because it makes games look and play better. After all you can do more with that extra power, and I get to ride off of that and my PC hardware gets pushed a little harder. However, if everything has to be backwards compatable then thats not going to happen. If I was a developer I would develop for the system that people had already bought. And I think thats whats going to happen. I think there will be some cases where this game looks a lot better on a neo or a scoprio, but in general I think its not going to make that much of a difference. I've also heard people cite the cell phone market as an example of this business behavior. You make things backwards compatable for so many years and then its easier to say X app only works with Iphone 4s and above. But we're already 3 years into this cycle, and by the time we can comfortably create that cut off line it would've been time for new hardware anyways.
I guess Im also coming off as a PC elitist, and maybe I have become somewhat like that since the 360 days. However, I love my PS4 and I love knowing that if a third party game gets a bad port I can just play it on my ps4 and get a more reliable experience (hopefully) due to a more rigours certification process and standardized hardware.
As Im writing this I have to wonder if this is a good business behavior for the consumer, or if its a behavior companies engage in because it tends to make more money than doing it the old way. Its easy to dress this up as a good thing, its a new box to play with and its a better one too. People who like tech (like gamers) like that idea. Still though is this just a more aggressive version of planned obsolescence in disguise an upgrade?
I guess Im also coming off as a PC elitist, and maybe I have become somewhat like that since the 360 days. However, I love my PS4 and I love knowing that if a third party game gets a bad port I can just play it on my ps4 and get a more reliable experience (hopefully) due to a more rigours certification process and standardized hardware.
As Im writing this I have to wonder if this is a good business behavior for the consumer, or if its a behavior companies engage in because it tends to make more money than doing it the old way. Its easy to dress this up as a good thing, its a new box to play with and its a better one too. People who like tech (like gamers) like that idea. Still though is this just a more aggressive version of planned obsolescence in disguise an upgrade?
Insane Metal
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LMAO that sounds funny.
You are acting like MS did not show games for an hour plus.
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