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[Fatal Chuck Yeager]

I see we have people in the thread already giving contradicting statements.

Answering the OP, Phil did say that they were increasing somewhere, I don't recall if it was an interview or the Starfield event. What confuses me is why they are making a new S.

 

[Topher]

What confuses me is why they are making a new S.

XSS small storage has been an issue for a lot of folks

 

[Zathalus]

I don't know if things have changed, but they were initially using the XSX chip. It was designed for general purpose cloud applications in addition to gaming.

Microsoft Project xCloud Servers to be Powered by Xbox Series X SoC

Microsoft is preparing to launch a competitive product to Google's Stadia and Amazon's Project Tempo, which are both game streaming services. To Microsoft's advantage, the company has experience in building gaming systems and using cloud technology to integrate them. While both Google and Amazon...

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Microsoft doesn't use the XSX for anything other then Xcloud. Easy enough to check on your own, no Azure instance or other computing stack runs on anything that remotely resembles the XSX chip. For good reason too, the cache starved Zen 2 chips combined with GDDR6 would offer horrible compute CPU performance. As for servers that require a strong GPU (or anything AI related, including MS own ChatGPT) Nvidia is the defacto standard.

 

[Fatal Chuck Yeager]

XSS small storage has been an issue for a lot of folks

Yes, but when you can go to certain stores and buy the November SKU still you would think drawing down that inventory would take priority first.

 

[Little Mac]

I just bought a Series X this morning off amazon (US). Been on my wishlist for a while and the base non-bundle was rarely in stock. It's my birthday today and Chrom clearly has blessed me. Curious how much of a difference D4 will be visually compared to the Series S.

 

[MarkMe2525]

Microsoft doesn't use the XSX for anything other then Xcloud. Easy enough to check on your own, no Azure instance or other computing stack runs on anything that remotely resembles the XSX chip. For good reason too, the cache starved Zen 2 chips combined with GDDR6 would offer horrible compute CPU performance. As for servers that require a strong GPU (or anything AI related, including MS own ChatGPT) Nvidia is the defacto standard.

I must be misremembering some information from the hot chips segment around launch. I just went and looked for any info regarding cloud computing on Xbox SoC, and I may have mixed up the use of pluton for security as both azure and the XSX have it intergrated in. Regardless, thank you for the correction.

 

[Slicker than your average]

Both consoles still aren't readily available in every store. I am in Walmart and Target weekly and have seen maybe 3 PS5 and 1 XSX over the past few years. Of course anecdotel, but it still shows that one cannot just walk in a store and be guaranteed to walk out with one.


I don't know if things have changed, but they were initially using the XSX chip. It was designed for general purpose cloud applications in addition to gaming.

Microsoft Project xCloud Servers to be Powered by Xbox Series X SoC

Microsoft is preparing to launch a competitive product to Google's Stadia and Amazon's Project Tempo, which are both game streaming services. To Microsoft's advantage, the company has experience in building gaming systems and using cloud technology to integrate them. While both Google and Amazon...

www.techpowerup.com

Imagine actually saying the series s isn't readily available.

Literally they couldn't even give the console away at one point..

 

[MarkMe2525]

Imagine actually saying the series s isn't readily available.

Literally they couldn't even give the console away at one point..

I don't think I have seen anyone make that claim. I could have missed it. You do know this thread is talking about XSX right?

 

[StereoVsn]

"stock issues" because they tried to bundle the crap out of it by including GamePass game (Forza 5) as the bundle item. When most people picking up Xbox are getting GanePass...

I am shocked!

 

[Slicker than your average]

I don't think I have seen anyone make that claim. I could have missed it. You do know this thread is talking about XSX right?

Your post made it sound like you were talking about both Xbox consoles

 

[MarkMe2525]

Your post made it sound like you were talking about both Xbox consoles

I specifically named the consoles I was referring to, that being PS5 and XSX.

Edit: it's not a big deal, you misunderstood which happens

 

[Slicker than your average]

I specifically named the consoles I was referring to, that being PS5 and XSX.

Edit: it's not a big deal, you misunderstood which happens

I'm registered blind bro. I use the braille version of neogaf.