Poll: *** Xbox Series X|S - General Discussion Thread ***

[McPhee]

You would blur out the serial so it cannot be traced back to you. Why would you risk getting sued or fired from a job?

I don't know. Maybe ask the chap who leaked the PS5 dev kit on his own Facebook account?

https://www.reddit.com/r/PS5/comments/eki59d/ps5_devkit_cleaning/

Also:

https://www.thurrott.com/games/xbox/228561/xbox-series-x-hardware-shows-up-early

If Thurrott is saying the Xbox is genuine, it's almost certainly genuine.

 

[gord]

You would blur out the serial so it cannot be traced back to you. Why would you risk getting sued or fired from a job?

Maybe the person who snapped it doesn't work for Microsoft?

 

[hyperseven]

Maybe the person who snapped it doesn't work for Microsoft?

I doubt they do but they would have kept a record on what dev kits went where then it wouldn't be hard to track who had access to that unit.

 

[gord]

I doubt they do but they would have kept a record on what dev kits went where then it wouldn't be hard to track who had access to that unit.

Oh absolutely, if it's not an "authorised" leak then the person that's had their prototype snapped could be in trouble, but I doubt very much. Ultimately, we've already seen it, this isn't giving us a whole lot more than some connections.

 

[pcfarrar]

Rumours that the slot on the back of the series X is a CFexpress slot.

 

[BuffetSlayer]

Rumours that the slot on the back of the series X is a CFexpress slot.

Hmmm. Interesting theory. But why put a slot for interchangeable cards in the back? Surely that would be better suited to the front of the console?

 

[Kreeeee]

Hmmm. Interesting theory. But why put a slot for interchangeable cards in the back? Surely that would be better suited to the front of the console?

It's just a PCIe interface. It will be for adding storage via an external enclosure as the nvme ssd will be soldered to the board.

USB drives won't be fast enough to expand the storage if that internal drive is the minimum standards games are coded for.

 

[Chris1712]

Thunderbolt 3 with a USB-C connector would surely be the more consumer friendly solution? Not as tidy I suppose but still fast enough.

 

[Kreeeee]

Thunderbolt 3 with a USB-C connector would surely be the more consumer friendly solution? Not as tidy I suppose but still fast enough.

AMD (the manufacturer of the CPU and GPU in the One Series X) don't support Thunderbolt, probably because it's an Intel controlled standard and those two don't play well together.

 

[McPhee]

I'm sceptical of the CFexpress rumour.

With current game install sizes, there's unlikely to be any demand for cards smaller than 500GB. A 512GB Cfexpress card costs just shy of £700 on the rainforest. A 500GB NVME costs ~£50. So unless CFexpress prices are expected to fall by around 90% over the next 12 months, I can't see why they wouldn't use NVME in a custom enclosure instead.

 

[Grim5]

Next gen games come on 100gb blursybdiscs

 

[MOOGLEYS]

New format “blursybdiscs”.....

 

[Grim5]

New format “blursybdiscs”.....

typing on a phone with its own ideas about how things are spelt

 

[Chris1712]

I'm sceptical of the CFexpress rumour.

With current game install sizes, there's unlikely to be any demand for cards smaller than 500GB. A 512GB Cfexpress card costs just shy of £700 on the rainforest. A 500GB NVME costs ~£50. So unless CFexpress prices are expected to fall by around 90% over the next 12 months, I can't see why they wouldn't use NVME in a custom enclosure instead.

As far as I can tell, that’s exactly what CFExpress is - NVMe in a custom enclosure. There’s just no demand for it yet.

 

[McPhee]

So it is

Every day's a school day.

 

[spook2575]

AMD (the manufacturer of the CPU and GPU in the One Series X) don't support Thunderbolt, probably because it's an Intel controlled standard and those two don't play well together.

i thought tb3 is royalty free now? Unless you meant from a technical perspective

 

[Kreeeee]

i thought tb3 is royalty free now? Unless you meant from a technical perspective

Historically AMD have been against adding it for those reasons, and I believe that Intel still control the standard even though it's royalty free now due to poor uptake.

 

[hyperseven]

Historically AMD have been against adding it for those reasons, and I believe that Nvidia still control the standard even though it's royalty free now due to poor uptake.

What has Nvidia got to do with TB3. Last time I read about this TB3 will be known as the upcoming USB4.

 

[Kreeeee]

What has Nvidia got to do with TB3. Last time I read about this TB3 will be known as the upcoming USB4.

Oops, I meant Intel.

 

[Chris1712]

Historically AMD have been against adding it for those reasons, and I believe that Intel still control the standard even though it's royalty free now due to poor uptake.

It might be telling what happens this year with Apple, pretty sure their laptops will move to AMD but they've always been a great proponent of Thunderbolt.