{"id":17217,"date":"2020-02-25T18:06:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T18:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?p=17217"},"modified":"2020-03-23T20:10:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T20:10:42","slug":"new-microsoft-xbox-series-x-announcements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/new-microsoft-xbox-series-x-announcements\/","title":{"rendered":"New Microsoft Xbox Series X Announcements"},"content":{"rendered":"

On February 24, Xbox head Phil Spencer released a blog post with the latest on the Xbox Series X.\u00a0 This was the latest in a trickle of new information about the upcoming game system.\u00a0 Once again, this is line with what DFC believes is a solid strategy of slowly leaking information to an eager audience.<\/p>\n

The official Microsoft blog post<\/a> contained little in the way of new information on\u00a0 the Xbox Series X.\u00a0 The post was targeted towards Xbox fans, but the media of course goes crazy for this type of info.\u00a0 This is a marketing tactic that makes sense.\u00a0 It is simply stoking an ongoing fire of excitement over new game hardware.<\/p>\n

On the Friday before the Microsoft blog post, DFC had written an article arguing that the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 do not need traditional game system debuts<\/a>.\u00a0 At launch these systems are likely to be supply constrained as early consumers rush to buy the initial hardware shipments.<\/p>\n

Maintaining a sense of mystique becomes important.\u00a0 In the past, Microsoft has done a poor job with handling new product information.\u00a0 Ignoring the traditional media and going directly to consumers is probably a smart strategy.<\/p>\n

So what exactly was announced?\u00a0 There were basically three major themes in the post: 1) power and speed; 2) instant immersion and 3) a new generation of game compatibility.<\/p>\n

Spencer confirmed that the Xbox Series X would have a 12 teraflop GPU.\u00a0 Previously Microsoft had said the Xbox Series X would have roughly 8 times the GPU power of the original Xbox One and twice the power of the Xbox One X.\u00a0 The original Xbox One was 1.3 teraflops while the Xbox One X was 6 teraflops.\u00a0 All this power can drive frame rates to 120 fps.<\/p>\n

There was also some further talk of SSD storage and Quick Resume features.\u00a0 In the latest DFC report on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X<\/a> we stated that fast game delivery via SSD and other features was likely to be a key advantage over the slow previous generation.\u00a0 The heading of the Spencer’s post talked about “immersion in an instant.”\u00a0 From a practical standpoint, this could be huge.<\/p>\n

The issue of backward\u00a0compatibility is a little more esoteric.\u00a0 There was talk about playing four generations of games going back to the original Xbox.\u00a0 The post also introduced the concept of Smart Delivery.\u00a0 This promises that supported titles will automatically be upgraded to run on the best hardware.\u00a0 The actual importance of this feature remains to be determined.<\/p>\n

Overall, the slow reveal of the Xbox Series X has been far more promising than previous Xbox announcements.\u00a0 Of course, when it comes to advertising and marketing video games, Nintendo remains the master.\u00a0 Microsoft has a long way to go, but we are forecasting strong initial demand for Xbox Series X.\u00a0 Consumers are eager and ready to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On February 24, Xbox head Phil Spencer released a blog post with the latest on the Xbox Series X.\u00a0 This was the latest in a trickle of new information about the upcoming game system.\u00a0 Once again, this is line with what DFC believes is a solid strategy of slowly leaking information to an eager audience. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17219,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17217\/revisions\/17219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}