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Fallawful on 22 January 2020
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derpysquirtle64 said:
shikamaru317 said:

According to Thurrot’s sources, the large rectangular port is for a diagnostic tool and will not be on the retail version.

No Kinect port or HDMI-In for tv passthrough. Those seem to be 2 features that will die with XB1 since barely anybody used them.

Kinect was already gone since One S. No surprises here. The another feature being gone is IR receiver and that’s actually the most useful one IMO. It makes my Xbox one media remote incompatible with Series X.

shikamaru317 said:

The back panel seems to be easily removable, hope that makes it into the final design as it would make upgrading to a larger SSD much easier. The 1 TB SSD it will likely come with is not going to hold many games with next-gen file sizes.

Yeah, this have to be the case. Sony had another advantage this gen with easily replaceable drive, MS should follow.

Fallawful said:
I hear rumours that this will be able to run Windows 10 and boot up in PC mode. If this is true I'm interested in the console (I have always had Macs).

This also consolidates the shape of the console in my mind, as I know would be treating it like a PC tower. Plugging it into a monitor on a desk would not be a problem for me.

This won’t happen. MS stated numerous of times they are in the business of selling software, not selling hardware. If there actually is some windows mode, it will have lots of limitations. Like only apps from MS Store for example. No win32 support etc.

The rumours I read did say it would be limited, so this does not contradict (I'll find the article if you are curious, but obviously I'm taking the rumours with a grain of salt). The limited PC mode would primarily serve to boot up Steam, Windows 10 store, etc. 

Microsoft's ethos is to let people buy software and play it wherever they want. Accessing your Steam library from a console would nicely fit into this process. Anyway, I like this idea and would totally get the console to play Steam games I can't with my Mac. I don't want to have a whole other PC.