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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Dell, guessing I am the only one who liked it. Looked good, and promising. Hope they do good this generation. And give Sony a good run for they're money. I feel like xbox reallly trie to give gamers value for their money. With game pass, play anywhere and so on.. so hope they have some good games lined up.
 
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As someone suffering from mental illness I can understand how difficult it can be and sympathize with the designer.

But that's no excuse for token hiring a clinically retarded person for a designer job they're clearly not suited for and will cost the company millions as noone wants to buy new furniture when they could buy a console that actually fits in their living room setup and doesn't trigger their xb360 dpad ptsd.
 
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That is about the ugliest piece of hardware I've ever seen. I guess it does live up to the "box" title, though. :lol:
Looks like a low-end PC tower :lol:
May as well throw Windows on it and call it the Xbox PC



When I saw this thing on a thumbnail on ReviewTechUSA's channel (it came up in a recommendation, I didn't actually watch the video), this was literally my reaction. I texted one of my older brothers an article about it, and I'll have to wait until tomorrow to get his reaction, but for fucks sake, just call the damn thing the WindowsBox at this point. Before, they at least could say that they're using mobile chips to get away with it being called a console. Now? Running what is probably some soldered on variant of a Ryzen 2 CPU-and-GPU-In-One solution? Call it the WindowsBox, and make it to where you can use full on Windows, install emulators, everything that you can do on a PC, and then I'd be impressed. (And don't pull out like Sony did with Other OS when people use it to do things you don't want them to do. I mean, unless you want the hacking community to come knocking on your online service door...) And it'd be a better name. Seriously, they shot themselves in the foot with the 360, went "umm...uhhh..." with the XBone, and now, we have Xbox Series X? Are they going to give, like, 3 options for people to choose from, kind of like with the Steam Machines (I'm genuinely curious, do those still receive software updates, and how well do they hold up with games with Steam Proton? I only ask because setting up anything non-Ubuntu seems to have led to some pretty mixed results, and it feels like I'd have to dedicate a whole half of a year to get everything setup how I want it with Linux compared to Windows 10, with its warts and all) which ended up confusing people?

As for the PS5's design, what we've seen so far is only the devkit. Even that looks more console-esque and entertainment center friendly than this. With the Series X (just call it the Xbox SX and hope people don't think you're trying to tell them about some sort of weird Xbox One fanfiction where the Xbox One S and the Xbox One X fuse together or some shit), it's like you'd have to set it alongside your entertainment center and be lucky if you don't have a carpeted floor.

And depending on how this console does, how many of these first-party "exclusives" are going to stay exclusive? Because KI3, Fable 1, and most notably the Halo Master Chief Collection are on Steam, (with the latter receiving PC ports of the games in chronological order) which isn't a service owned by Microsoft!

About the only thing good is maybe the controller? But if you're going to make the d-pad more like the Elite's disc d-pad, why not include six face buttons for fighting games, as I remember in a Linus Tech Tips review that Luke did when the Elite 1 was fresh that it was hands down the best d-pad for fighting games he's ever used, you'd think it'd be a perfect opportunity to put two more buttons on there, giving devs and players more buttons to work with for games, and fighting/arcade game players better ways to control their games, IMO? I know this is nitpicking, but as someone who's got all of their arcade games on all of their RetroArch setups pre-configured for both six and four face buttons + shoulder buttons if necessary, it'd make sticking to one set of remaps a whole lot simpler and easier. I love my 8bitdo M30s and the Fighting Commander controllers, but in spite of my BT adapter on my mITX mobo actually being reliable, I'd love it if I didn't have to depend on BT (especially Windows BT) for all of my wireless solutions or have to resort to using solutions that involve more potential trip hazards along the floor!
 
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Memes for this console are fucking corny. Christ. Shit is, it’s just a computer. Literally this time. Which is good. Ain’t buying it, but, good.
 
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you'd think it'd be a perfect opportunity to put two more buttons on there, giving devs and players more buttons to work with for games, and fighting/arcade game players better ways to control their games, IMO?
Bring back black and white face buttons from og Xbox. Problem solved.
 

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Is it just me or is this thing fucking huge?

Also, I called it like two months ago on how Microsoft's approach to nomenclature is just flat-out fucking crazy. I'm... somewhat glad I was right.

I just figured out what the OG Xbox Classic will be called. It's not gonna be called the Xbox Classic. It's going to be the Xbox Resurrection, because it's not chronologically confusing enough! XD



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Bring back black and white face buttons from og Xbox. Problem solved.

Either that, or C and Z. Hey, I can hate a console's design and all, but you make a good controller? If Google Stadia has taught us anything, that will get people buying it for their PCs, at least!
 
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I just figured out what the OG Xbox Classic will be called. It's not gonna be called the Xbox Classic. It's going to be the Xbox Resurrection, because it's not chronologically confusing enough! XD


They could call it a different name in the West and in Japan! That won't make it confusing at all!

Call it the Xbox PlayStation in Japan! The Xbox PC-Engine in the West! Add an X to Asia, just because - and then rebrand it as the Xbox iQue X! The possibilities are endless!

God! Nomenclatures! How do they work??
 

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just call the damn thing the WindowsBox
I also would've accepted the "Xbox Box," though that might have had just as much sexual connotation as what they actually landed on: the Xbox SeX.

About the only thing good is maybe the controller?
At this point I'm honestly leaning toward the theory that Microsoft is only making another console to sell a new series of controllers to PC gamers. :D
 
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I also would've accepted the "Xbox Box," though that might have had just as much sexual connotation as what they actually landed on: the Xbox SeX.


At this point I'm honestly leaning toward the theory that Microsoft is only making another console to sell a new series of controllers to PC gamers. :D

Xbox Box would be like if I made a Friday The 13th movie called "Friday The 13th Day." (which kind of sounds like the 3rd Parasite Eve game's title)
 
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Design looks like a PC tower, which is an odd choice, but I don't hate it. Name is kinda a mouthful but at least it can't be shortened to something dumb like Xbone, i imagine it will just be shortened to XSX, which is alright by me.

Edit: and now I'm reading that shortened form aloud and realizing it sounds like Excess X... wow, kinda hard to not feel like its accidentally drawing attention to how large it is with that abbreviation.
 
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Design looks like a PC tower, which is an odd choice, but I don't hate it. Name is kinda a mouthful but at least it can't be shortened to something dumb like Xbone, i imagine it will just be shortened to XSX, which is alright by me.

I like XSEX better for obvious reasons... ;)
 

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It's literally a black PC-FX, and not as cool because at least NEC had sense enough to put the optical drive on top instead of a slot side loader. And if Series X is really it's name, and someone doesn't talk sense into Microsoft between now and then, it'll probably sell about as well as the PC-FX did, too. No one is gonna know what it is.
 
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My ears pricked up.. looks nice.. but lets see whats under the hood... Micosoft wont let us down, i think this is going to be a console worth having!
 

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May as well throw Windows on it and call it the Xbox PC
You laugh but it would be a good idea.
Nice PC/Console hybrid with locked specs and included controller and marketed and tailored as a console first (it would run W10, but boot up to a console dashboard first). Yeah that could definitely work.

The only reason it won't ever happen is "muh piracy".
 

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