I honestly have no idea, but I’m a bit more interested in that 2025 bit. Hopefully a mid gen refresh after all, or the crazy bastards introduce next gen.
Nah, that I cannot see happening.
A digital Series X? Interesting. I assume this thing will have a different form factor.
Still sounds boring 
“Please pay us 600 bucks (again) so your games hit 4k more often. But no promises!” I get really excited just thinking about it 
Maybe I’m too jaded but i think this time around the consoles started pretty well balanced and i didnt get the impression ‘oh my Xbox is underpowered’ like with the Xbone.
If you want me to fork over lots of money again you have to basically do what NVidia did in 2018 with Turing. But AMD is still not there.
And that’s perfectly fair. I’m not trying to convince anyone to be interested or excited. Hell, I’m not excited at the idea of a pro console lol. I’m just sharing what I think people should expect. The higher rumored clocks are leaning me to think it would be RSNA3 since that architecture was capable of higher clocks. If that’s the case, I can see a considerable jump in RT performance. I’m not excited for this rumored console, but I do find the idea of it interesting.
And to be fair, the 4k claims and promises you characterize here was already done with the PS5 and SX lol these companies will always promote bigger and better with new hardware.
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I bought a PC last September. 950 quid. AMD Ryzen 7 5700g processor, RTX3070ti gpu, 16gb 3600mhz RAM and 500gb SSD for 900 quid. Granted at the time it was an absolute steal, when the GPU was still 700 quid.
In your scenario a PS5 Pro is never competing with my PC when it comes to GTA6 or Witcher 4 and my PC struggles with the Witcher 3 at higher graphics settings with any RT turned on…
If I was buying a second machine to get the best out of a game… I’d opt for a mid-high range PC every day of the week. My Series X hasn’t played a game in 10 months now… It’s now a glorified Netflix/Disney+ machine for the kids.
If Microsoft and Sony are indeed releasing a pro version. I’m leeching onto GTA6 marketing like a parasite. Shouting from the heavens that getting a Pro will be the only way to play GTA6 at 60 fps on consoles.
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Other plans for hardware in 2025, I’m guessing that means a more powerful Xbox, very likely not the next, although I wouldn’t be against it. Assuming it’s true I wonder if these plans were always there or if this is an “answer” to the PS5 Pro rumors. Could be a repeat of last gen where One X came a year later. Ideally (imo) it was gonna be 2024 too, but alas.
That one year made the difference between a real 4k machine and a fake one. Most people think 2024 is too soon and the jump won’t be big enough, let’s see what 2025 brings.
They definitely aren’t responding to the rumors since they know better than any of these people what their competitor is doing.
Makes the most sense. Don’t really have to redesign anything, considering the way it’s built it should be quite easy for them to make a shell without the blu-ray tray and eject button, pull out the drive and call it a day. Minimal R&D and easy to get out into the wild.
Long story short seems…
PS5 has issues that were quickly removed on Xbox, odd to see them here. PS5 has higher resolution at 1800 vs 1440p but more performance issues and other visual stuff not up to snuff.
Looks like AMD FSR 3.0 (frame gen) might launch with Starfield
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I want to see the next gen Xbox to perform no less than a 4070. If they manage to do it then it will draw lot of new PC gamers.
I would be surprised to see any sort of Frame Generation from AMD or Intel this side of 2024. That would be an incredibly fast catch-up for anyone else to pull off.
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AMD announced the Frame Gen back at the launch of 7900xt last year. With shiping window of 2023.
Yeah, I nearly forgot about that sort of “we’ll have it too” moment, but I’m still expecting it to take a bit longer. Would love to see it happen this year.
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FSR 2.0 is active on the new version, doesn’t upscale but allows for less shimmering. Shadows are a higher quality but causes the game to have a harsher look - still prefers the new version even if he believes having softer shadows would have been better.
FSR 2.0 image is better than the FFAA solution, 720p UI still, pallet change is very noticeable as everything seems darker. Called the Xbox version marketly inferior, and that’s were I nope out.
Less shimmering is a good thing, it does make me wonder why they didn’t bother at all for a Xbox version. It’s not like they were responsible for the enhancements, it was the Xbox team. But at the same time I wouldn’t have bought it again, absolutely not.
That being said, looking at the comparison bits in the video PS5 actually seems more soft to me, overall.
It’s a rather barebones and disappointing remaster. I’m not surprised if some prefer it with the cleaner image quality and higher rez shadows but it’s not worth $50. I can see why there isn’t an Xbox version, but as they stated in the video, an Xbox option would be nice for those that want it. The choice would have really benefited One S owners the most IMO.
It may look a touch softer due to FSR having a temporal element. So you’re basically trading shimmering for a slightly softer image.
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Yeah, it’s odd that they just decided to not do it for Xbox.
Probably realized nobody would pay for $50 for it when the BC version exists for much cheaper.
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