Yeah, I'm starting to think that way too.

I  have a feeling that such a powerful and expensive console all but confirms the existence of a series S. There is no way that they would leave the majority of console consumers without an option.

How so? Even at $499, which is the likely price, the still imaginary series s cant be more than $100 cheaper with only a weaker gpu.

The more for GAMES, the better. More than 2gb for OS is already overkill.

Uh.. sorry to rain into your parade, but this one has me worried the most. AMD/MS/DF say 380 GIntersections/s. How did they get to this number?

Solution: 52 CUs * 4 TMUs * 1.825 GHz = 380 GIntersections/s

This tells us that AMD's RDNA2 accelerates RT using the TMUs (or the TMUs simply limit RT). This is by far inferior to NVidias solution. and it is not an extra TFlops, it would actually mean taking away from the 12TFlops...

We're still only guessing at the features and spec differential at this point in time. It's probably going to have a smaller SSD, potentially less RAM and perhaps even skip having a disk drive. Maybe even the CPU soloution will differ.

We simply don't know. Seeing the higher spec'd X just adds a bit more weight in the rumour of it's existence. If you see it another way, that's fine.

Hands on doesn’t mean they have to show anything from the games they played. Hands on means they got their hands on the actual hardware and got to experience what it offers. It means nothing else than that. It doesn’t mean they have to satisfy your need for game footage or whatever else you don’t understand from the words “hands on”.

The title is accurate and uses the correct wording.

John mentions something like 'the other next gen console' in the one vid, talking about comparing them, and Rich gives him a bit of a stare. At first I thought John meant PS5 and that Rich was like 'shut up, we're literally at MS now', but later they mention PS, so I can't help but wonder if John actually meant Lockhart.

Rich also slips up, but I think it's in the other video, and says something along the lines of wanting to see something on the Xbox Series S, but then immediately corrects himself and says Series X. His facial expression there also seems telling, as if he's like, 'crap, I might pay for that'.

Why weren't those edited out however? Did MS or DF suggest the 'accidental teasing' of Lockhart Series S, or were they honest mistakes and no big deal?

Intel calls their combined chips SOC's, and even though AMD calls their's APU's, they and MS are referring to them as SOC's? Common now. They might mean the same thing in the end, but AMD needs to be a little more aggressive about gaining some long term marketing narrative. Mind share leads to market share.

I wonder how clear about the external SSD vs external HDD MS (and PS) will be? The choice between a $99 4TB external HDD and a $99 1TB XB SSD will seem like a fairly simple choice to most consumers. The more proprietary SSD's they sell though, the cheaper their cost will be, so I don't see them being all that clear about how external storage works and how you don't need the SSD. Unless you don't want to have to shift your games around, and how much of a pain could that really be?

The breakdown video is thorough, which is really nice. Looks like a really well thought out system and a beast of a console.

16GB GDDR6 at 32bit is more than enough tbh.

The only critique I can find is that 1TB storage is relatively tiny as game sizes get bigger and bigger.

😲

That is all.