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Xbox Series X Won't Be "Out Of Position" On Power Or Price

Xbox has been planning for the Series X for a long time.

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Microsoft and Sony are both getting ready to release their next systems in 2020, the Xbox Scarlett--now officially known as the Xbox Series X--and the PlayStation 5. So far both companies are broadly explaining their visions for the next-gen of hardware, preparing us for what these systems can do. For Microsoft, that means committing to not repeating the numerous mistakes of the Xbox One launch.

"I would say a learning from the Xbox One generation is we will not be out of position on power or price," Xbox head Phil Spencer told The Verge. “If you remember the beginning of this generation we were a hundred dollars more expensive and, yes, we were less powerful. And we started Project Scarlett with this leadership team in place with a goal of having market success."

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Spencer went on to say that the company had discussions about whether to do another console generation "years ago," and added that he personally thinks there will be more generations after that. Because of that calculus, he said, "We're all-in on Project Scarlett and I want to compete, and I want to compete in the right ways which is why we're focused on cross-play and backward compatibility."

Microsoft has provided some information on the specifications of its next console and the Xbox Series X certainly shaping up to be on equal footing with its competitors. We've created a comparison between the Xbox Series X and PS5 to breakdown what we know about each piece of hardware thus far and how they compare to each other.

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In other words:

Kinect 3.0 included with EVERY console sold. Welcome to the next generation.

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I'm hoping it's a great next gen without stupid DRM. I'm probably going to stay with PC and Switch though. I can afford all systems like I did this gen but I'm trying to cut the waste out of my life.

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Another paper weight.

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@pharoe777: Nice failed trolling attempt pharoe77 but the claim that xbox siries x is a paperweight is a fact, making a rhetorical counter 'IaGreePs5WillBetrash' is not a valid argument. However like 1+1=2 you dont need to provide an argument for how xbox siries x is trash because its clear. Its a yaht in a desert, best hardware no games, halo will be a failure, the other proposed games are looking like failures and so is their overwatch clone.

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@pharoe777: booo bad grammer! Stay in school kid.

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@pharoe777 Sorry, but using proper grammar does not make you a 'Old man' Try again boomer.:

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@Terminator95: You're both embarrassing fanboys, if it helps.

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@pharoe777: I know. You were grunting at each other about which multinational conglomerate's plastic game box was betterer.

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@pharoe777: I enjoy all things gaming, doesn't matter what platform it's on... he was trolling so I thought I'd have some fun, pharoe a well known fanboy...but like I said, No one was talking to you.

Pharoe You basically admited that they are not a fanboy LOL, you let it slip, so your argueing against him 'JUST CUZ' and not because you have valid coutner arguments, That does not make them a fanboy.

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Considering the way that Phil Spencer expresses his disdain for the X1's design and launch, and the way in which he has handled everything since taking his current position - I have no worries about the next console. In fact I'm extremely confident we are going to see something spectacular, to the point I think the PS5 is going to look like Sony got complacent by comparison.

I mean, only time will tell, but the writing on the wall is looking good for Xbox next gen at the moment.

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@skyhighgam3r: As of the time you wrote your comment, and now Xbox Siries X is looking to be an ever growing failure, and you have falsley claimed sony has grown complacement, you are delusional, sony have 30% more devs wanting to make games FOR THEM, rather than siries x, yes companies who have used both sets of hardware, Xbox yet again will be a failure, 'SONY GOT COMPLACEMENT BY COMPARISON' How? LOL, there is literally no proven info on the ps5 yet, except for the fact it has all the game and microsoft have none. Your writing you scribled on the wall via schizophrenia is not good.

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@nogameboxx: lol jesus christ dude, take a deep breath "only time will tell"

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@skyhighgam3r: PS3 was Sony's moment of complacency which they know they can't repeat.

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@gamingdevil800: and they sold around 85m.... Which is Xbox's highest ever. The difference is ps3 came back and was more attractive the second half.

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Years ago? With the scars of your errors fresh? Good start (no sarcasm, even suits repeat mistakes like some people out of touch with history)

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Just give me a solid UI that isn’t a laggy mess. I love my it, but 90% of the time I literally don’t want to use my Xbox One X because it’s just such a mess to navigate. Please, please make the UI clean, and responsive.

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@dashaka: Exactly my biggest issue, the UI. Laggy is an understatement. And freezes galore. A better UI will make a huge difference. But above that is the games.

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@dashaka: Seriously, how is NINTENDO the one who got dashboards right? The PS4 and X1 dashboards are a joke (Xbox is def the worst offender) but Nintendo's is amazingly clean, to the point, and I wouldn't change anything about it. I just wish there were more than 4 games I've felt are worth buying on that whole system lol

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@skyhighgam3r: I dunno the Switch and PS4 have a similar style aka games all laid out in a row with different tabs above.

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@gamingdevil800: PS4 is closer to Switch in that regard, but you still are hit with all kinds of nonsense. I mean, an entire facebook style page loads up on most of your screen for every single title you have in that list. Plus you have those entries at the front that aren't even games and you can't get rid of.

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@skyhighgam3r: I'm not sure what you mean every tile for the PS4 has stuff below if you hit down but you don't have to look at it you just click on the game. Plus apart from PlayStation Store, What's New and the media player I can't think of anything that is permanently there.

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@50cratez: So... Xbox One X is fine then? 'cause it plays 3rd party games better than PS4-Pro does... >.> I get your point, but you're expressing it without much nuance, and it comes off as overreaching.

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@skyhighgam3r: 'cause it plays 3rd party games better than PS4-Pro does.' Nice strawman, where did he mentoin the xbox one X? LOL OH WOH A MORE EXPENSIVE MORE RECENT CONSOLE PLAYS GAMES BETTER" WOH THATS INSANE! Nice failed trolling attempt, but a console that costs more released at a later date playing third party games which are always better on pc (That also invalidates xbox outright is invalid) There point is invalid none of it with nuance or overeaching your overeaching for a counteraegument because he is right via strawman. Get over it.

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@nogameboxx: You clearly don't understand what 'strawman' means, but ok... They are contemporary systems. The X1X and the PS4-Pro are directly comparable.

As I'm looking at this, I don't even know why I'm engaging with your angry ranting. You wanna call me a troll but even your username is anti-Xbox lol. Clearly no one should pay attention to your inane babbling.

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@50cratez: understand that point partly but that's not what was being said a couple of years ago when PS4 was generally rendering it 1080p and the xb1 was at 900p.

It got slated constantly for poorer versions of cross plat games and I think that was more damaging than 1st party games

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@peterhorner1867: that was the arguement from fanboys. Any true ps fan invests knowing the games are coming. If we go the route you're taking then the X shouldn't matter bcuz xbox fanboys were saying power doesn't matter and all of the sudden it does. Power never mattered for PlayStation. Ps4 was the only one that was more powerful.

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@peterhorner1867: Yep. I have both a PS4 Slim and an Xbox One S, and I generally play cross-platform titles on the PS4 because of the higher resolution.

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@50cratez: yea think they realised this with the insane amount of studios they are buying up.

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@walbo: They had baught up and invested insane amounts into studios BEFORE, and it all LED TO FAILURE, yea dont think they have relised that planned games look terrible so far.

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All I can say is, Yakuza trilogy, final fantasy trilogy, Xbox scarlet what, no mini next probably, then persona trilogy, wow I wonder what made square enix jump on the band wagon, they are no different then Ea, so wouo it be better fitting to build their own platform like EA does? But it seems it's all about dlc now and passes.

But deep down only ms flight sim, ages of empire 4, and reach are pc players salivating, if Microsoft buy some rights to star citizen because I know they will my gawd the sky's no more the limit.

Anyways Xbox one X, share a portion of the pc in medium settings, while Scorpio will support at ultra, while the additional ray traced scenes reducing it to medium or high, so the ecosystem is the same, however Xbox one X has a custom os over the slim version, so does the pc windows, it has a different version.

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@Crazy_sahara: x and scorpio are the same thing?

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@walbo: Yeah, he went way off the rails at the end there.

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Cross play is where it's at for me. But yea it's nice to see Phil admit to the faults of why the Xbox was a huge let down early on. I got myself a PS4 instead and was well worth it. I got an Xbox late in the game and use it mainly for multiplats. I do plan on getting Scarlet and PS5 later down the road when the big exclusives come out.

They better live up to it though. None of this MS always online bs. I still can't believe that when Xbox live is down, Single Player games do not work.

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@Ice-Cube: that's pretty much the way to go. Get which ever one interests you the most and then grab the other console later when it is cheaper and has some worthwhile exclusives.

I'll likely grab a PS5 first since I know it will have exclusives I'll be interested in, though it might take awhile for those exclusives to release. Plus the BC means that I'll, hopefully, be able to carry over my entire PS4 library so it's an easy transition for me.

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@Ice-Cube: pretty sure all you have to do is switch your xbox to offline mode to play single player games man.

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@walbo: Actually, that's been increasingly difficult. This year, twice, there was a new category of "partial services outage" where you could sign in but library license services were timing out. It was fugly. All the network tests showed fine/active, because their own service statuses weren't updated in a reasonable time.

Anyhow, hopefully those of us who collected data and sent it to Support were able to help them improve... Not an outage category that looks good on gaming overall.

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@Pyrosa: man didn't understand much of what you said there but you seem to know your stuff so agree with you man that sounds ruff lol.

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@Pyrosa: Yeah bit annoying when I try to play Jade Empire etc on my xbox one if I forget to plug in my lan cable to will annoyingly prompt me about connecting to the internet before playing.

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@Pyrosa: and they want an only digital future? ha, no.

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@Ice-Cube: That I noticed to be a problem to.

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