Everything You Need To Know About Xbox Series X

@Vodoo: the ps4 dash also has significantly less features

That said the reason it's "slow" (and I disagree with that) is because of the CPU combined with the slow HDD. The insider preview dash is very quick and with Ryzen it will be absolutely top.notch.

@Vodoo: Windows sub-system is anything but laggy. It's been tested as the fastest core of any OS. Your concerns are in the UI above the OS, which is not Windows on the Xbox but another UI all-together. And, yes that needs help. Keep your concerns focused, and read more.

@sonofsamus: considering all the studios they bought I'd say they are going back to games first. It was don mattrick that changes the focus and it's taken Phil Spencer years to right the ship but the plan was always to ensure the next console was powerful and had plenty of excellent exclusives

@sonofsamus: great console, but definitely was slacking in the exclusives department. Hopefully things will change next gen.

@Spartan_418: if you buy in bulk ..and we are talking about buying millions upon millions of drives here, you get a significant discount on price and that's because of both the volume of sales and also the fact that they will be buying said drive for at least 4 years.

@Spartan_418: The article showed a 1 TB SSD, which are getting quite cheap these days. And, this will likely be a special order item, not consumer level. So likely not quite the normal SSD speed, but still far faster than a normal HD.

@Spartan_418: It depends who they get to make this SSD's. i bought a 2TB SSD for less than 200 bucks during black friday 2018. This consoles might not come out until at least December of next year so that's more than a year in a half and probably even longer if they don't come out until 2021. Prices for SSD will be much lower by then and that's what they are counting that the prices will be much lower if anyone wants to upgrade and buy a 2TB SSD for their console

@Spartan_418: I imagine they'll only start at 1TB, which will be too low. The PS4 and Xbox One launched at 500GB which is a joke when some game installs are 50GB+. 1TB SSDs are getting closer to the $100 mark so I think I can see it happening.

@jacky89: like a PC games will scale visually. It won't be an issue. The game may be hideous on low end but I doubt it because low end will likely be the x1x with an SSD and gddr6.

@siarhei: yes, Ms confirmed that already. They may abandon the original though.

I think they will always support the previous high end console which will drop in price significantly.

@siarhei: no.

@Shewgenja: well hopefully with The Initiative Studio they started, we will get a AAAA game some day.

@Shewgenja: Playground games make AAA racing games so it's most likely their non-racing games will be the same quality. They have some great talent from other studios joining Xbox so should be a lot better than this gen.

@sladakrobot: I thought I finally needed a new one with that one game of thrones episode

Alas... I didn’t

But maybe Next Box will reawaken the need for a 4K splurge!

@hoard_moard: One would think so being all they talking about specs which is nice but it would be nice when they talk games. Even if they make good games I will wait for an price drop or good sale even if it takes an while I would probably trade in my X as I do not see no need in keep it. If it has BC I would rather it have an disc player as I have an huge collection. I would get the newer games going forward as they may be phasing out physical media but again I still need that disc player.

i havent owned a console in over 10 years since the xbox 360, but i gotta disagree. 500 dollars isnt a bad price for all of this.

This next gen of console actually doesn't look like garbage now, SSD, decent cpu and gpu, games should be 60 fps minimum. I still probably wouldnt buy one since like you said, not really any exclusives good enough to care about that interest me, but if i didnt have a PC, this would do the job pretty good.

@merkkrai: :)