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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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.
That’s the confirmed Dev kit. Don’t worry, the PS4 Dev kit looks nothing like the PS4 so you don’t have to worry about PS5
 

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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.
I believe those leaks are real but are from the Dev console so not really representative. If not then Sony might've topped Microsoft on this one.
 

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Microsoft is running out of names. I guarantee you they wanted to call it the Xbox X. Really, they f'd up when they made another "Xbox".
Imagine name like these: Microsoft 360, Microsoft Magine, Microsoft Scarlet
 

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As a main xbox console user. The name is not very good. For me I'm up to date on the information, but for other less informed parents getting something for their kids. It feels like it'll be a wii/wiiu issue where they could be unsure what the difference Xbox one X and Series X is. Luckily the design is obviously different so that could be a good way for less informed people to kind of grasp the difference.

They could have chosen a better name
 
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What a dumb name, everyone is going to abbreviate it as SeX, X:SeX or Xbox:SeX
Even if you write XSX it will always be ecks ass'ecks phonetically

The whole game awards feels like another Microsoft e3 presentation, with a lot of talking and the occasional trailers starting with a "world premiere" announcement

Not to mention that TGA is only a good place to unveil a new console if you want the reception to be lukewarm and underwhelming
 

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Slowly moving into the PC tower form factor I see.

Well, I guess xbox 10 was a bit boring. But Series X is a bit confusing. Xbox S, Xbox X, and now Xbox Series X! Which nooooo one will call Xbox SX. nahhhhhhh. totally not going to be a confusing mess for consumers at all. /s

At least I hope they take the opportunity to have a UI which isn't obtuse as hell.
 
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On a serious note, does anyone else get a bit of a Wii U vibe from the name? I have a bad feeling this is gonna flop hard when it comes to people telling whether it is actually a new system or just another addition of the XBOX One.
 

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On a serious note, does anyone else get a bit of a Wii U vibe from the name? I have a bad feeling this is gonna flop hard when it comes to people telling whether it is actually a new system or just another addition of the XBOX One.
Oh it'll flop, but more because it has zero exclusives than for any other reason. Xbox One was also a terrible name.
 

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OK Microsoft, you give your consoles stupid names as an ironic reflection on the rigid sequential development that game generations should be defined by the quality and content of games and not by an arbitrary numeric value that can't express subjective values. We get it, you're very deep, whatever, can we just have names that aren't so ridiculously confusing?
 

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So its literally a box . . . An X box . . . I mean their design seems to have been inspired by bricks since the first console . . .
Reminds me of the NES vs Famicom design since westerner like big bulky thing they made the NES into a big brick to apparently win over westerners as they would want a thing like that in their living room beside their VHS . . .
 
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Someone should of told Microsoft look read out the alphabet 100 times but without saying x and now think of a name
 

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