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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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.
Me and my friends are already calling it the SeX-box.
 
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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".

As if it wouldn't eventually occur already if hackers are talented enough! Hell, you can already run RetroArch on the XB1 by using the Developer Mode! I know, it's $100 (I think) to get that activated, but with the One X? I wonder how Dolphin runs on the thing, and how it compares to an Nvidia Shield TV...
 

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good luck getting that FUGE monstrosity into your tv/entertainment cabinets they clearly don't even know the term minimization! why don't they just give up and call it a damn pc already :rofl2:

edit they just updated the design!

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Series X? I hoped for the name XBox 4 just to mess with the people, but Series X is braindead enough to fit in there console naming scheme.

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.
I think the idea was so that you can stack your console ontop of the other boxes under your TV (VHS player, later DVD and BluRay and this HDD recorders and such). I remind people beeing upset with the shape of the GameCube because it didn't fitted anymore nicely under the TV the same way...
 

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Oops wrong thread lol
Who the hell uses cabinets like the ones you're talking about anyway these days. It's not the 80's anymore. Most have tv's hanging from the wall with tv cabinets beneath it with open air cube like holes. The entertainment setups you're talking about is something people used 20 years ago and more.
 
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Series X? I hoped for the name XBox 4 just to mess with the people, but Series X is braindead enough to fit in there console naming scheme.


I think the idea was so that you can stack your console ontop of the other boxes under your TV (VHS player, later DVD and BluRay and this HDD recorders and such). I remind people beeing upset with the shape of the GameCube because it didn't fitted anymore nicely under the TV the same way...
GameCube fits a lot better than this

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Who the hell uses cabinets like the ones you're talking about anyway these days. It's not the 80's anymore. Most have tv's hanging from the wall with tv cabinets beneath it with open air cube like holes. The entertainment setups you're talking about is something people used 20 years ago and more.
I don't know what you mean by open air cube like holes, but I don't know anyone with a wall mounted TV, nor do I have my landlord's permission to wall mount.
 
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GameCube fits a lot better than this

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I don't know what you mean by open air cube like holes, but I don't know anyone with a wall mounted TV, nor do I have my landlord's permission to wall mount.
Don't know how contacts work over there but here house contracts let you do what you want as long as you give back the house or appartement you live in in the original same state you got it and if not by law you have to pay the costs to get it back in that state. Everyone i know, even my 2 grandmums have their tv's mounted
 

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I don't know what you mean by open air cube like holes, but I don't know anyone with a wall mounted TV, nor do I have my landlord's permission to wall mount
what how many people do you kno 2 :lol: thousands hav a tv mounted to a wall but i prefer on a desk table etc-but all the money microsoft hav got the designer has to be sacked the box should hav at least a big enough X somewhere showing like the original xbox unless thers a X at the top lit up or something
 

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Console's today are basically a pc wonder if Microsoft is thinking of bridging the gap more :unsure: but not for nothing next gen hardware must be generating some serious heat
 

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"Yes, the Xbox Series X can be used horizontally as well as vertically. Microsoft chose to debut the Xbox Series X in an upright almost PC tower-like fashion, but the monolithic console can be used horizontally as well."
 
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