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shikamaru317 on 15 February 2024
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Ryuu96 said:
shikamaru317 said:

Biggest hardware leap of any gaming generation ever is quite the tease. I'm skeptical that it will truly be the biggest leap in actual hardware though, if the leaks are right we are only looking at 6 years between Xbox Series X and next-gen Xbox, that is not enough time for a massive leap in actual hardware specs unless it is very expensive. I'd rather say that things like better dedicated raytracing cores that allow path tracing, and AI frame generation to nearly double framerates at the chosen graphics settings, will do the heavy lifting of making this next-gen Xbox seem like the biggest hardware leap yet.

Guessing the unique hardware tease could be a reference to the dual-layer Xbox and Windows OS, or it could be about the rumored cloud graphics improvements from the slide that leaked out in the ABK court case

New Xbox Series hardware option this year is somewhat surprising, the AMD leaker suggested the mid-gen refresh console had been cancelled and even Phil said that slide that had leaked was outdated and no longer matched their current plans. Could just be a cheaper to produce model on a small nm production line, or a larger SSD model though.

What would be the biggest leap?

Honestly I'm kind of not surprised...

They do a mid-ranged handheld device which is dockable, that would cover a decent range from low-end to mid-end but then they can also do a suped up Xbox console, stupidly powerful but still less expensive than PC hardware, it will be aimed at selling it at a profit.

I would probably buy both, Lol.

I thought the unique hardware is an obvious reference to a handheld? Lol.

New Series stuff this year is probably the digital only device.

Assuming he means the biggest generation to generation Xbox hardware leap to date, the biggest leap for Xbox was definitely OG Xbox to Xbox 360, where we went from 13.9 gflops to 240 gflops, a massive increase of 17x in on paper specs (real world wasn't quite that much, but still a huge leap). Next largest was Xbox One to Xbox Series, from 1.3 tflops to 12 tflops, about 9x increase. Smallest to date was 360 to Xbox One, which was 240 gflops to 1300 gflops, only about a 5x increase. I don't think it is possible for the on-paper specs leap from Series X to next gen Xbox to be bigger than OG Xbox to 360, not in 2026 and probably not even in 2028 or 2029. That is why I think things like much better dedicated ray tracing cores allowing path tracing (path tracing is a huge leap forward in game lighting) and AI frame generation will be used to overcome some of the disparity and make it seem like the largest leap yet. 

Unique hardware could have been a reference to the handheld, but that isn't really unique, everybody will be making a handheld next gen, from most PC OEM's to Sony to Nintendo, I'd rather say that dual-layer OS is the unique things, nobody has ever made a console that is both console and PC wrapped up in one package. I do think the handheld is happening though.

What's odd about the digital only Series X is that the AMD leaker back in September said he could find no evidence of AMD working on the 6nm die shrink Series X chipset that was supposed to power it. Maybe they will just do a digital only Series X with the current design though, maybe it was only the shrunken chipset and cylinder design that died.