{"id":343364,"date":"2017-06-12T05:08:53","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T21:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=1501866"},"modified":"2017-06-12T05:08:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T21:08:53","slug":"the-xbox-one-x-is-microsofts-powerful-new-4k-console","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/the-xbox-one-x-is-microsofts-powerful-new-4k-console\/","title":{"rendered":"The Xbox One X is Microsoft\u2019s powerful new 4K console"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A full year after first teasing Project Scorpio<\/a> at its last E3 event, Microsoft finally took the wraps of its new console, now called the Xbox One X. \u00a0Decidedly less catchy than Xbox Scorpio, but it beats all of the Windows-centric Xbox 10 S rumors that were circling around the past few weeks.\u00a0<\/span>The tongue-twister of a console is set to arrive November 7, priced at\u00a0$499, as initially reported.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The company has already alluded to a number of features on-board, including backward compatibility and processing power that make it \u201cthe most powerful game console to date.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>And from the sound of it, Sony can\u2019t really argue here, there\u2019s a ton of firepower under the hood here, designed to keep Microsoft\u2019s mid-life console line both ahead of the competition and up to speed with the latest happenings on the living room A\/V front.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a fairly minimalist looking system and, impressively, \u201cthe smallest Xbox, ever,\u201d according to the company.\u00a0The \u00a0new console is, as advertised, capable of true 4K gaming playback, with HDR video quality and Premium Dolby Atmos, keeping with Microsoft\u2019s long-standing desire to be a full living room entertainment experience, rather than simply a gaming machine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course,\u00a0\u201cnew console\u201d might be overstating things a bit. Keep in mind, the Xbox One is only about halfway through its lifecycle (the Xbox 360 was kicking for about eight years before its successor launched), but Microsoft still needed to keep up with the times, after the PlayStation Pro<\/a> arrived with 4K and VR capabilities. Rather than rushing out the next-gen, however, the company has introduced a more capable version of the One.<\/span><\/p>\n

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There\u2019s also a pretty robust bump in RAM up to 12GB of memory, coupled with a healthy 326GB\/s of memory bandwidth. This is, as advertised, an extremely powerful system, and Microsoft has gone a ways toward eliminating bottlenecking between the graphics and processor. All of those high-powered innards will be liquid-cooled with the sort of vapor chamber you usually find on a server.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The company noted that the box is capable of something called \u201csupersampling,\u201d meaning that users won\u2019t need a 4K TV to take advantage of the new video quality. It should look better a plain old standard 1080p set, as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

For those gamers who aren\u2019t spec-obsessed, what all of that means is that the new system is about more than just keeping up with the proverbial Joneses. It\u2019s about helping to future-proof the Xbox One at the halfway mark of its lifecycle. The console will not only be capable of doing 4K res gaming, it also features a little adde kick for when performance requirements invariable increase well before the next-gen Xbox officially arrives.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Even more importantly at launch, the system will be compatible with all existing Xbox One games out of the box, along with accessories. No software, no patches. So, there\u2019s plenty of content to get up and running at launch. Microsoft has also promised to make scaling up easy, promising developers that any titles in 900p will be able to run at full frame rates in 4K, a feature it demoed during an early review back in April.<\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, the company showed off 42 new titles at today\u2019s E3 event. As it put it on stage, each will work with every member of the Xbox family, though they\u2019ll work \u201cbest\u201d with the Xbox One X. That means, among other things, that for cash-strapped users, this won\u2019t exactly be a \u201cmust update\u201d like the\u00a0PlayStation Pro before it. New titles will still be compatible with the versions that came before it \u2014 you just won\u2019t get that full 4K experience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For those who do upgrade, the\u00a0Xbox One X should help keep the line atop the gaming console spec race \u2014 at least until the next shoe drops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\" A full year after first teasing Project Scorpio at its last E3 event, Microsoft finally took the wraps of its new console, now called the Xbox One X. \u00a0Decidedly less catchy than Xbox Scorpio, but it beats all of the Windows-centric Xbox 10 S rumors that were circling around the past few weeks.\u00a0The tongue-twister of a console is set to arrive November 7, priced at\u00a0$499, as initially reported.\u00a0… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n

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