Microsoft E3 2017: Xbox One X Is A Great Value At $500, Exec Says

It would cost well over double the consoles asking price to build a PC capable of the what the XoX is supposedly capable of. A video card alone capable of 4k/60 with medium settings is already nearly the cost of the console.

Here is a modest solution:

GPU GTX 1060-6GB"4.4TFLOPS ($300), Case ($40), motherboard ($120), power supply ($50), X1 gamepad ($50), UHD Bluray drive ($130) Win10 OS ($110), 8GB DDR4 Memory-Speed? ($60), AMD Ryzan chip Cores?Frequency? ($220), 1TB Hard Drive ($70). Add all the components together and it may be roughly around 6TFLOPS considering some overclocking here and there. If you want mini itx, expect to pay more for a few items.

We're at $1150! Did I forget anything? You can't use conventional PC hardware either because the SoC is custom and the system board is also custom with GDDR5 memory not available at retail all with a custom tuned configuration specific for the DX12 api. You would in fact have to have better hardware than I even quoted to get bit for bit performance as the XoX is tuned a certain way because the operating frequencies of the gpu, memory and CPU will not match retail stuff.

So yeah, $500 is a steal and you bitches need to pipe down. I am not a huge fan of Microsoft but reality is reality and to obtain 4k or near 4k 30 or 60 you MUST have some horsepower and there is no way to build a PC for less than I just stated to get the same performance. I'm sure some know it all could spend a few more minutes hunting down more and cheaper hardware options but I believe the point has been made.

There is a supreme level of convenience getting PC quality graphics on a self contained and whisper quiet device with it's own built in U.I. If you prefer disks then there's that luxury too, a luxury you are not afforded on PC as once you enter your game code the game is lost forever, never to be retrieved for trade or selling nor gifting. Digital content has no value and is not an asset unlike disc based gaming, which luckily consoles still provide and that is a value in it's own right.

On the other hand, the long argument for building a PC in place of a console can still be had at around $400/$500 if 1080p is your deal.

$500 is what I expected Microsoft to sell it for - and that's at least $100 more than I'd be willing to spend for a small upgrade. What's worse is that there's only a handful of games that even justify 4K anyway, of the 42 games shown for the Xbox the overwhelming majority were indies that are graphically underwhelming to begin with. Games like Minecraft won't justify upgrading to 4K for me

Performance to Price? Errrr so your saying 4k 60fps for almost every game? HAHAHAHAHA I'LL BET MY SYSTEM COULD OUTPERFORM IT!

they did a bad job explaining what xbox 1x is im still not sure what improvments it has compared to the x1 and they are already talking about not supporting original xbox backwards compatability,i dont think i will be buying this

Yea but what's the appeal of One X ? Will be get better visuals than PS4 Pro counterpart ? 4k is gimmick IMO. We'd rather see more visual fidelity as well as 60 fps at 1080p. And I'm not talking about cosmetic visual improvements either. It has to take full advantage of One X and make it visually stand out against its competitors. If they can do that, then people would consider getting One X. But that's not gonna happen if One X is getting held back by older generation of consoles aka PS4 / Xbone.

But there are a lot of others places where i will find more and better games. That's what an exec won't tell you.

4K is overrated. 2K is just as nice and you can use much lower system specs.

If they wanted to upstage the PS4 Pro than they should have released it at the same price point as the PS4 Pro to compete with it directly so that Sony would have no edge. The lack of quality first party game releases is another sticking point for me. I'll probably give it a year to see if it's worth the upgrade. I already own the original Xbox One and Xbox One S.

I think its a fair price as well to be honest. Compare it to Ps4 Pro and you will see that what Xbox one X has to offer is worth $500. Cant believe people would complain about that. Most people thought it would be $600+ and now that its cheaper then what they predicted they still complain. Sad