Xbox Series X Announced (Xbox Scarlett)!

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Dante9 said:
So they went from a VCR to an air purifier with the design, wow. Ugly things. Well, it's the inner beauty that matters, right?
But why would you bother with an Xbox anymore? It's built like a PC, all the games will be on PC and now it even looks like a PC. Why is this a necessary piece of equipment?

As others have stated, simplicity and ease of use. Consoles deliver an optimized experience, built to work flawlessly on TV's. There is a huge market of people that just want to be able to plug a device into their TV, pick up a controller and start playing. Even in today's PC enviornment, it is still just not that simple. HDR on Windows is not implemented nicely, games still run into random issues, and with all the launchers it has becoming more cumbersome. 

I tried diving back into the PC space again this year. Bought a new PC with Ryzen, NVMe, and a RTX2080. Also bought an RX 5700 XT. I put the RTX in my i7-4770K desktop I bought before PS4/XBO launched, and put the 5700 into my new Ryzen PC to have an all AMD set up. It has not been smooth sailing on either device.

Forza Horizon 4 gave me hope becasue it played great on the i7-4770K unit with a GTX680. Gears of War 4 struggled a bit, but then worked great with the new Tower, and GPU's. Then Crackdown 3 worked great on both systems. However things began to fall aprt after that. Gears 5 is crashing on both systems regaurdless of stettings. Keeps freezing at load points no matter how low I set the Reslotuion or how little RAM I am using. I can bench it at 1080p and well over 60fps, and it still crashes. Then the new Halo Reach came, and it won't start on my AMD system due to an AMD DVR .dll file. Though it is working perfectly fine on the Intel/Nvidia unit. I have also had issues with Dolby Atmos on both PC's. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. 

Non of these issues have occured on the XBO X. All of the games run fine, with only the rarest of crashes. I have never had an issue with Dolby Atmos on the XBO either. For that reason I will be grabbing an Xbox Series X at launch to play Halo Infinite without any headaches. Ideally going forward, I would love to see consoles receive yearly updates, that allow them to perform with the best AMD has to offer in the PC market. Sometimes Optimization and Stability are the biggest selling points.