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Forums - Sales Discussion - How the Xbox One X can have a real shot at success, despite the high price.

SegataSanshiro on 26 July 2017

Remember when PlayStation 2 failed because the hardware was weaker than Gamecube and Xbox? Remember when Wii never outsold the HD consoles? Oh that's right they were the best selling systems of their generation. My bad. I thought is all that mattered...gee... Oh and Switch is $300 not $400.



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monocle_layton on 26 July 2017

"Urrr some people are paying scalpers for a popular console with great exclusives and portability. They'll certainly pay $500 for a console if they can get a lineup weaker than Greece's economy!"



leo-j on 26 July 2017

The thing is with just zelda and splatoon the switch already has better exclusives than the one..... so of course it's trailing silly



 

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niceguygameplayer on 26 July 2017
SvennoJ said:
Erm, correction, Switch has 0.2 tflops in handheld mode, 0.4 tflops docked. XBox One X is a measly 15 to 30 times more powerful. Won't matter one bit!

I don't know where you got your information, but Switch is the first Nintendo system to reach a teraflops. In comparison, the PS4 has 1.8 teraflops. 



SegataSanshiro on 26 July 2017

Just do what Coleco did. Make your console Backwards compatible with your compeitions games. HA! Play PS4 and Switch games on Xbox One! I'm sure it will be fine..just FINE! :P



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niceguygameplayer on 26 July 2017
jason1637 said:
Paying for third party exclusives really doent help them in the longer run. Microsoft is better off building new studios and developing new IPs that they can own.
The XBX really isn't going to set the industry in fire sales wise and I think MS knows that. At first it will be for those that want the best performance from consoles, hardcore Xbox fans, and tech enthusiasts.
They probably expect it to sell better down the line as a cheaper entry level console that can play ninth gen games with their no generations approach.

Your last sentence could be true, but buying exclusives almost won them the 7th generation war against PS3 and even put them higher in game sales than Wii. They expanded their overall brand and recouped a lot of money in game sales. 



Vor on 26 July 2017

Yeah MS sure have a lot of great exclusives this year. I mean Crackdown 3 is miles better than the critically acclaimed Knack 2, and definitely a GOTY winner. And we also have Scalebo- oh wait I'm late.



A handheld gamer only (for now).

globalisateur on 26 July 2017

Core gamers and casual gamers buy switch to play Zelda and Mario Kart.

Will core gamers buy XBX to play games they can play at double the framerate on their PC ?



NATO on 26 July 2017

 

 



HoloDust on 26 July 2017
niceguygameplayer said:
SvennoJ said:
Erm, correction, Switch has 0.2 tflops in handheld mode, 0.4 tflops docked. XBox One X is a measly 15 to 30 times more powerful. Won't matter one bit!

I don't know where you got your information, but Switch is the first Nintendo system to reach a teraflops. In comparison, the PS4 has 1.8 teraflops. 

He got it where all other people that are even remotely following tech have...on various tech sites.

Switch is powered by Tegra X1, a 256:16:16 GPU (if you know what that means) running at 768Mhz docked and 307.2MHz handheld (which translates into 0.39 TFLOPS and 0.16TFLOPS, FP32) or when boosted 921MHz docked and 384MHz handheld (0.47TFLOPS and 0.2TFLOPS, FP32).

What you're thinking of is FP16 performance, and when docked, in boost mode Switch can deliver 0.94 TFLOPS....XOneX can deliver 12TFLOPS FP16.

EDIT: Actually scrap that, there's no boost mode (so far) in docked mode, that was only tested, but not implemented. So 0.78TFLOPS FP16 in docked mode.