shikamaru317 said:
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. |
I don't think they even consider actual specs these days when they say biggest leap it's all marketing BS like Nvidia showing current cards with upscaling and frame generation off vs the new card with all all the features on to artificially show massive leaps in performance and that's what the next gen consoles PR will be built around.
