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

Which will you buy?

  • Series X

    Votes: 535 59.5%

  • Series S

    Votes: 105 11.7%

  • Not interested

    Votes: 234 26.0%

  • Both

    Votes: 25 2.8%
  • Total voters
    899
Hmm probably expected that price but still it is quite a chunk of change! Assuming it will come with a controller and a game for that . .. .
Gonna be an expensive run in to Christmas with getting PS5 as well!
 
Gengar said:
Hmm probably expected that price but still it is quite a chunk of change! Assuming it will come with a controller and a game for that . .. .
Gonna be an expensive run in to Christmas with getting PS5 as well!
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You can bet your mortgage that the SX will be bundled with a gamepass ultimate sub for 1-3 months.
 
Just to put it out there

What’s to stop Microsoft offering win10 support in some way shape or form and allowing the new Xbox to work as a desktop machine.
If I could plug in keyboard and mouse and fire up office365 and a few other apps It could 100% replace my pc and £550/600 for a pc that can act as a new gen console is a lot easier to contemplate than a new console only.
 
233 said:
Just to put it out there

What’s to stop Microsoft offering win10 support in some way shape or form and allowing the new Xbox to work as a desktop machine.
If I could plug in keyboard and mouse and fire up office365 and a few other apps It could 100% replace my pc and £550/600 for a pc that can act as a new gen console is a lot easier to contemplate than a new console only.
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Then it just be a PC, which is what MS doesn't want the console to be.

Look what happened to the Steam Machine.
 
233 said:
Just to put it out there

What’s to stop Microsoft offering win10 support in some way shape or form and allowing the new Xbox to work as a desktop machine.
If I could plug in keyboard and mouse and fire up office365 and a few other apps It could 100% replace my pc and £550/600 for a pc that can act as a new gen console is a lot easier to contemplate than a new console only.
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Cause at that stage it's not a consol anymore
 
233 said:
Just to put it out there

What’s to stop Microsoft offering win10 support in some way shape or form and allowing the new Xbox to work as a desktop machine.
If I could plug in keyboard and mouse and fire up office365 and a few other apps It could 100% replace my pc and £550/600 for a pc that can act as a new gen console is a lot easier to contemplate than a new console only.
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I think that's the worst idea I've ever heard :p
 
I've been trying to decide what to do with my current xbox x which my son has. We'll be upgrading to the series x, but I think looking at the models I may keep it and move it into the living room

Series X

CPU: Eight-core 3.8GHz (3.6GHz with SMT) custom AMD 7nm
GPU: 12 teraflops 1.825GHz (locked)
RAM: 16GB GDDR6
Frame rate: Up to 120 fps
Resolution: Up to 8K
Optical: HD Blu-Ray disk drive
Storage: 1TB NVMe SSD

X

CPU: Eight-core 2.3GHz custom AMD
GPU: Six teraflops 1172 MHz
RAM: 12GB GDDR5
Frame rate: Up to 60 fps
Resolution: Up to 4K
Optical: HD Blu-Ray disk drive
Storage: 1TB HDD

Series S

GPU: Four teraflops

XBOX One

CPU: Eight-core 1.7GHz custom AMD
GPU: 1.31 teraflops
RAM: 8GB GDDR3
Storage: 500GB/1TB HDD
 
james.miller said:
500 quid for an all in one box of tricks you couldn't build for anywhere near the price is the worst idea you've ever heard?

Strange...
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Yep, I'd hate a desktop OS on a console. Consoles should be turn on, play the game, turn off.

You'd really want a console which would end up saying (windows is installing update 1 of 30)? not to mention the drivers!!

Have a word with yourself man :D
 
TheOracle said:
Yep, I'd hate a desktop OS on a console. Consoles should be turn on, play the game, turn off.

You'd really want a console which would end up saying (windows is installing update 1 of 30)? not to mention the drivers!!

Have a word with yourself man :D
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To be fair, both my xbox and PS4 do a Sheila's of updates every time I go to play a game......... I remember the days when you just put a game in and it worked....... But that's mean waiting until games are finished before releasing them !
 
james.miller said:
I think you've missed the point...
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He wants a 12 teraflop pc for £500?

What point have I missed

Don't get me wrong, if the likes of dell or someone wants to make a custom gaming pc, great. I'm just saying I like consoles to run an optimised OS specifically for gaming. Whilst the xbox runs a similar kernel to windows, the OS is designed for gaming, not running office365.

If you could buy a gaming pc with those specs for £500, I would probably buy one, but I'd still want a "console" under the living room TV.

It's been a very long time since I last built a gaming PC, how much is a 12teraflop card these days? I shudder to think.

:edit: OK, an RTX 2080 Super graphics card does 11.1 teraflops and costs..(is this right?) £690 :eek:
 
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Who says the console has to run a full Windows OS?

You seem to think it's a bad idea because it might compromise gaming on the console. There's no reason why that has to be the case.

But yeah, worst idea in the world.
Lol.
 
james.miller said:
Who says the console has to run a full Windows OS?

You seem to think it's a bad idea because it might compromise gaming on the console. There's no reason why that has to be the case.

But yeah, worst idea in the world.
Lol.
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I'm not sure what point you're trying to make but yeah lol

Can you honestly see Microsoft porting the office store app to Xbox?

I get it, I really do....trust me, I'm a gadget freak as much as the next fella, but what your thinking isn't as good as what you're imagining. I'm an early adopter. I bought the windows phone, the surface pro, the first windows RT tablet. I know what using the word app sandboxed feels like.

Watch the YT video just posted, and imaging a tile on the dashboard for edge, then one for word, onedrive, and so on. It's not a nice experience. It's a bloody awful one. Actually, you can run edge on xbox already, so imaging that with a keyboard and mouse. If you like it, fair enough.
 
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