What insiders were wrong though. Post em up.  

MEMO: As you all know. Over the past week I have thrown multiple tantrums regarding the future of Xbox. I put all my games away, my console away, cancelled game pass, cancelled pre orders, was very toxic to xbox leadership in Palworld to @ice, and wishlisted brand new PS games.

In light of new changes from head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, Sarah Bond, and Matt Booty: I have made the decision to STAY with Xbox. I will however, continue to also play the best series on Playstation alongside Xbox. Such as fan favorites Persona, and Yakuza.

All pre orders have been restored on Xbox, as well as wishlisted Amazon games. Game pass has been renewed.

New interest in a handheld brings excitement to the Xbox platform. When everyone plays, we all win. 

CC: @NobleTeam360 

Yeah, 7900 XT tier but with better RT performance would be my guess. Supposedly it is RDNA 5, RDNA 3 RT performance is pretty poor, behind both Intel Arc and Nvidia GPU's in raytracing performance at the same pricing tier, but supposedly RDNA 4 and RDNA 5 will offer pretty big ray tracing improvements, so a mid level RDNA 5 GPU like the one that will go into the next gen Xbox most likely, one that roughly matches the high end RDNA 3 Radeon 7900 in rasterization, should outperform the 7900 XT in RT. So we should have path tracing as as a big leap forward in lighting, much more RAM allowing higher res textures, and AI frame generation on AMD's FSR, which testing shows offers about a 80-90% framerate improvement. 

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.

Ryuu simping for those insiders who are proven once again to be a bunch of frauds.

I didn't even notice the behavior as odd, it just appeared to me as Spade being Spade. gg