If XBX fails, what next?

[Mr Puggsly]

Pemalite said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Your examples are bad and no upgrade has ever been as significant or shown long term potential like the X1X. Like I said before, the specs upgrade is so significant that it should be able to handle 9th gen content fairly well. Especially if 9th gen hardware is a relatively modest upgrade at $399.

I dont think X1X is the the end for the X1 brand. Frankly, Sony and MS may both blur the lines of console generation.

The only major weakpoint that the Xbox One X has is that it's CPU is a generation or more behind what next gen will offer.
Keep in mind that Jaguar was AMD's slowest, cheapest, lowest-end CPU at a time when even AMD's highest-end CPU's were shit.
Zen is a massive improvement over Jaguar and it's cores are fairly small too.

It's hard to quantify the leap we are talking about here between Jaguar and Zen... It's like going from an OoO Atom which is Core 2 equavalent from a decade ago to a Core i5 Skylake of today.

Polaris is likely to age poorly as it's only mid-range and terribly inefficient, but it should still be pretty capable in 3+ years... It all comes down to how Microsoft intends to support Scorpio once next Gen starts, if they cut the support off at the knees like with the original Xbox... Then we will likely never see how well she can handle the next-gen transition.
Still, hope for the best, expect the worst, the industry is at it's best when all competitors are on equal footing, competition is glorious.

While I agree the Jaguar CPUs are relatively weak, they are also better then theyre given credit for. Also, most games arent extremely CPU intensive unless its a game pushing heavy physics, which can be scaled back for a modest CPU.

The X1X has a pretty significant speed boost and its a custom CPU that can apparently do more work with less overhead. I'm curious to see how that works in practice.

I feel like giving X1X all this extra power was pointless if its not going to be around for the 9th gen. At that rate they should have aimed for $399 and just have a GPU edge. The X1X feels like a more long term plan.