| Frank_kc said: I think sales are front loaded. I can see many of those sales as an upgrade by existing XB1S customers who are getting gimpy third party games (720p and 900P are some examples). I can see my self upgrading if I was in there shoe and having enough money to pay 499$ for an upgraded console. |
From what is being seen by DF and such though, that new machine isn't a 4k/60fps device either, there must be a point when people hold off a purchase beyond the promise of what it can do by the people aiming to sell it.
Buy a X1 for 1080p/60 get 720/900p/30fps
Buy an X1X for 4k... get a solid 1080p machine.
The thing is.... the machine is great for what it does, but it doesn't have the power to do what it was advertised as having, with "no compromises" it was just never built as such.
Look at the Switch.... what resolution and frame rate did Nintendo promise? absolutely none, the machine was shipped on a video of people jumping about on a rooftop playing games or on a plane chilling out with games.... you know what I've done with my Switch.... well it's been on a plane several times, no rooftops yet... maybe if one of my plane trips goes wrong lol, but yeah the machine was hyped for what it is capable of doing and it does really well, the X1 and X are both sold on a promise they can't really live up to.
(naturally there are games which run at 4k/60fps, but they're not the norm on the machine and the ones which have a selectable setting for 4k/60 come with compromises, if you are going to point to the handful of 4k/60 games and suggest that's the machines norm then I'd wager the PS2 was a damn good 1080i console over it's whole library... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PlayStation_2_games_with_alternate_display_modes those 5 games really were trend setters!)
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