Microsoft reveals the next-gen Xbox console name as the "Series X"



Xbox 720, Xbox Next, finally, the speculation behind the next Xbox console name has ended, with today's reveal of Microsoft's next-gen game system. Once called Xbox: Project Scarlett, a trailer shown off at The Game Awards has unveiled the console as the Xbox: Series X. The controller and system were shown together briefly, with the console looking a lot like a desktop PC tower, while the controller itself has more pronounced shoulder buttons and a new d-pad. Hellblade 2: Senua's Saga was also revealed for the system. 15 first-party developers will be making games for the system's launch.

Power Your Dreams with Xbox Series X, Available Holiday 2020

For eighteen years and three console generations, the Xbox community has shown us the power both games and fun can have on all of us. As we enter a new generation of gaming, we see a future where you’re instantly absorbed in your games—where worlds are even more lifelike, immersive, responsive and surprising—and where you are at the center of your gaming experience. With the new Xbox Series X, we will realize that vision.

Xbox Series X will be our fastest, most powerful console ever and set a new bar for performance, speed and compatibility, allowing you to bring your gaming legacy, thousands of games from three generations and more forward with you. Its industrial design enables us to deliver four times the processing power of Xbox One X in the most quiet and efficient way, something that is critically important in delivering truly immersive gameplay. We also designed Xbox Series X to support both vertical and horizontal orientation. It’s bold and unique, very much like our fans around the world and the team of collaborators and innovators who built it.

The name Xbox is an expression of our deep history in gaming, our team’s unrelenting passion, and our commitment to both our fans and the future of gaming at Microsoft. It also signifies our belief that a gaming console should be for just that – gaming.

Alongside Xbox Series X, we also unveiled the new Xbox Wireless Controller. Its size and shape have been refined to accommodate an even wider range of people, and it also features a new Share button to make capturing screenshots and game clips simple and an advanced d-pad derived from the Xbox Elite Series 2 Wireless Controller. The new Xbox Wireless Controller will be compatible with Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs, and will be included with every Xbox Series X.

The possibilities of what Xbox Series X enables developers to achieve was also brought to life this evening with the unveiling of Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II. A sequel to the award-winning Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice from world-renowned developers Ninja Theory, the game is being built to leverage the full power of Xbox Series X. The footage shared tonight was captured in-engine and reflects the power of Xbox Series X available to developers to deliver new universes, experiences and games in ways you have never imagined.

Bringing Developers’ Dreams to Life with Xbox Series X

Games today deliver amazing visuals and tell an array of different and deep stories. That’s why, when we started work on Xbox Series X, it was vital we continue to advance state-of-the-art visual capabilities for developers, while also ensuring they could realize even greater feeling, emotion and empathy in their games. With Xbox Series X, we will elevate the way games look, play and feel. We will also remove the technical barriers faced in previous generations and enable developers to create more expansive, immersive gaming worlds that invite more players to play.

From a technical standpoint, this will manifest as world-class visuals in 4K resolution at 60 frames per second, with possibility of up to 120 frames per second, including support for Variable Refresh Rate (VRR), and 8K capability. Powered by our custom-designed processor leveraging the latest Zen 2 and next generation RDNA architecture from our partners at AMD, Xbox Series X will deliver hardware accelerated ray tracing and a new level of performance never before seen in a console. Additionally, our patented Variable Rate Shading (VRS) technology will allow developers to get even more out of the Xbox Series X GPU and our next-generation SSD will virtually eliminate load times and bring players into their gaming worlds faster than ever before.

We are minimizing latency by leveraging technology such as Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM) and giving developers new functionality like Dynamic Latency Input (DLI) to make Xbox Series X the most responsive console ever. Xbox Series X is also designed for a future in the cloud, with unique capabilities built into the hardware and software to make it as easy as possible to bring great games to both console and elsewhere. Xbox Series X will deliver a level of fidelity and immersion unlike anything that’s been achieved in previous console generations.

One Console, Four Generations of Gaming

One of the things we’re most proud of with Xbox Series X is the promise we’re delivering to our fans who have and continue to invest with Xbox. Thanks to backward compatibility, you can expect your gaming legacy, thousands of your favorite games across four generations of gaming, all your Xbox One gaming accessories, and industry-leading services like Xbox Game Pass to be available when you power on your Xbox Series X in Holiday 2020.

Building on our compatibility promise, with Xbox Series X we’re also investing in consumer-friendly pathways to game ownership across generations. Leading the way with our first-party titles including Halo Infinite in 2020, we’re committed to ensuring that games from Xbox Game Studios support cross-generation entitlements and that your Achievements and game saves are shared across devices. As we branch out and extend gaming to more players around the world, console gaming will remain at the heart of our Xbox offering. Game creators around the globe are already hard at work building content for Xbox Series X and our 15 Xbox Game Studios are developing the largest and most creatively diverse lineup of Xbox exclusive games in our history. On behalf of Team Xbox, we’re excited to enter the future of console gaming with you and can’t wait to share more in 2020.
 

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Well, they're certainly trying something different with that design. Makes you wonder why pretty much all of the consoles in the past 30 years were basically just rectangles.

Edit: I just realized that people might start calling it the Xbox SX. That would be pretty ironic given TX's fame in the original Xbox days and the fact that their most recent line of products are all "SX." Maybe its slogan will be "Rocking the console market in 2020 and beyond!". :P
 
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oh cool, let's pretend I wanted this....welll....it sure are shit isn't going to fit under my TV or in the entertainment stand I have, so that's great.
this isn't a PC, make it horizontal, not vertical!

it does look cool, i will admit that, but it's a console, primarily for TVs, it should be able to fit into most stands, not some. my PC is next to my stand because of course it won't fit but where is this SUPPOSED to go?
 
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I like the idea and the design personally, making it basically a PC in all but name is fine by me, especially when it basically is at this point.

...but definitely not interested in it myself, seeing how they're probably going to port all their first party titles to PC (and on Steam, no less), so that whole platform will be a hard pass for me.
 

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I like the idea and the design personally, making it basically a PC in all but name is fine by me, especially when it basically is at this point.
Yeah it's not so much an issue that it looks like a mini ITX tower, but even then there are a thousand less plain and boxy-looking options.

For example:

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or

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Or hell, at least include a handle:

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it's literally 2 gamecubes stacked ontop of eachother


if only it were.

I remember being at my friend Paul's, in Spring of '87 I think. We'd all just gotten back to school (undergrad) after Spring Break, and Paul was the first among us to get an NES so we all converged on his place. I remember we played SMB, RC Pro Am, and Prince of Persia that day. Those are the ones I remember, anyway. It was probably Saturday or Sunday before classes started back up, there was beer and bong hits going round, about 8 guys and a few girlfriends, a really good day. The graphics on the NES were mind blowing for us ... we'd seen better at the arcades, but not on a home system. For most of us then, the Atari 2600 was our last console, so yeah ... mind blowing it was. Someone said something like, "Just imagine, one day computers are gonna get so good they'll make video games that look like it's real. That's gonna fuckin' rule!" And everyone agreed, except Gary. "Nah. That'll suck." he said.

Gary was right.
 
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Yeah it's not so much an issue that it looks like a mini ITX tower, but even then there are a thousand less plain and boxy-looking options.
I prefer minimalist designs for my hardware personally, I don't need fancy looking boxes with random ridges and edges that have no purpose other than to be "GAMING!!!" oriented.

It's likely the main thing I'll hate about the PS5, assuming all those "leaks" look anything like the actual console.
 

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According to Microsoft, it’s backwards compatible with ALL Xbox consoles ever released which is a big win for people with big catalogues. Also, the D-pad from the elite controller is now standard which is nice for people who liked it. Only thing I’m not hot on is the name.
 

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I prefer minimalist designs for my hardware personally, I don't need fancy looking boxes with random ridges and edges that have no purpose other than to be "GAMING!!!" oriented.

It's likely the main thing I'll hate about the PS5, assuming all those "leaks" look anything like the actual console.
It's a fine line to walk for sure, but I'd say stuff like PS4 and Switch manage to look minimalist without being uninspired and boring. Series X just looks like a square Alexa.

I hadn't looked up those PS5 leaks before, and yeah, that's definitely way over the top. I have a hard time believing it's real since it looks nothing like any of Sony's previous designs.
 
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