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Xbox Project Scorpio Announced - 6TFlops, 320GB/s - Fall 2017
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really interesting questions for today's briefing outside of the actual games shown.
Certainly the name will be interesting.. Do they go with just Xbox? Do they keep Xbox One S? Do they add a descriptor to the Xbox One (i.e., Xbox One Elite, etc)? Do they create a new title (Xbox Elite, Xbox Scorpio, MS Scorpio)?
Also, the price will be very telling. If they go $399 or less, then they tell me that they still care about selling actual boxes and that install base of their console is important to their success. If they go >$400, then they are telling me they don't think selling hardware is as critical to their long-term success.
Don't get me wrong, they will always want to sell as many boxes as they can; but their price today will tell me how they have prioritized hardware sales internally.
Certainly the name will be interesting.. Do they go with just Xbox? Do they keep Xbox One S? Do they add a descriptor to the Xbox One (i.e., Xbox One Elite, etc)? Do they create a new title (Xbox Elite, Xbox Scorpio, MS Scorpio)?
Also, the price will be very telling. If they go $399 or less, then they tell me that they still care about selling actual boxes and that install base of their console is important to their success. If they go >$400, then they are telling me they don't think selling hardware is as critical to their long-term success.
Don't get me wrong, they will always want to sell as many boxes as they can; but their price today will tell me how they have prioritized hardware sales internally.
I am so happy that name guessing will be over in a couple of hours haha.
I am sure 50% of the post in this whole topic are about what its gonna be called.
Xbox One X One
blue_phazon
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They already made an Xbox One Elite.
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Xwitch
They don't anymore. It's not an issue
Jemm
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I am so happy that name guessing will be over in a couple of hours haha.
I am sure 50% of the post in this whole topic are about what its gonna be called.
Other 50% is price guessing.
They probably need to think how to follow naming after Scorpio, too. They'll run out of plausible names without some numbering logic, if there'll be upgrades more often.
They already made an Xbox One Elite.
And so they rebrand going forward with a spec-bumped Xbox. It's not hard.
Is the Xbox One Elite bundle even sold anymore? Googling it over here just gives me hits for the controller, no bundles.
Christocolus
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https://m.windowscentral.com/electronic-arts-new-seed-division-project-scorpio
Just posted on Reddit. New EA RAD division leveraging power of Scorpio going forward.
Just posted on Reddit. New EA RAD division leveraging power of Scorpio going forward.
They're still sold though, so it kinda is.
aeroslash
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I am so happy that name guessing will be over in a couple of hours haha.
I am sure 50% of the post in this whole topic are about what its gonna be called.
Couple of hours, still 8:30 to go no??
PackAPunchedMick
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They already made an Xbox One Elite.
They already made an Xbox one.
Microsoft give no fucks.
Sure it is, they're still available, just not directly from Microsoft (Amazon has them still, for example). Hell, there are still to this day people out there who think an internet connection is required to play all Xbox One games. Hell, just picture the eBay scammers who would formulate their pages in such a way that people are getting the bundle I pictured instead of the newer system.
It's still listed on Amazon in the US and Canada at least due to third party sellers. A link to the Amazon is the 2nd hit I get when I do an online search for "Xbox One Elite", after the controller.
But the point is that the bundle is getting phased out. It would be a complete non-issue if they wanted to use the Elite name.
And yeah, they are sold through one or two shoddy third party resellers over here too, for a huge markup. but none of the big retail chains carry them and they clearly aren't on shelves.
The market penetration of that bundle was so damn low it would (again) be a non-issue.
RoyalLaFlame
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It's going to be Xbox One "something"
Look at the display panel on the devkit
Look at the display panel on the devkit
Elite could be somewhere in the title, I just don't think it could simply be "Xbox One Elite", there'd definitely need to be something more to it than that. Hell, even "Xbox One E" might be a safer bet (or Premium like someone alluded to earlier).
mingoguaya
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I'm just hoping they keep the name Scorpio and the console to be black with a red scorpion covering part of the front and top of the console.
A man can dream.
A man can dream.
Yeah, that would be the single best name for the new console, outside of 'Scorpio' being apart of the name.
A169InchSausage
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Xbox One 3GS
hanspampel
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10 is X
why are so few people on the XBox One X train?
why are so few people on the XBox One X train?
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Damn you could be right
They make the name plate on the front of the console an LCD screen and the console renames itself to match the resolution.
Xbox One (no)4K(for you!)
Nikana
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I've been in the One X train since it was rumored. It makes sense.
EDIT: I could see one X being like an internal name too.
Community Forum
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I like the sound of that a lot. Xbox One X.
Hazardous Metal
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It will be called Xbonx in public, as in
I'm on board.
Maybe it's because I've had little sleep but I absolutely fucking lost it when I said "Xbonx" out loud. Thank you, good sir.
thatJohann
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I say it will be either:
Xbox One X
or
Xbox 4K
or
Xbox Scorpio
Xbox One X
or
Xbox 4K
or
Xbox Scorpio
Xbox 4K makes no sense. They aren't mandating anything resolution-wise and it's likely a lot of games will still end up upscaled over the coming years.
Plus it would reinforce the notion that this thing is really only worthwhile if you own a 4K-capable television. Not many do.
Plus it would reinforce the notion that this thing is really only worthwhile if you own a 4K-capable television. Not many do.
ThatFrenchGuy
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I hope they just call it (the) Xbox Scorpio.
PackAPunchedMick
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Then why have 4k on the chip they keep using to market the console?
TheMagician
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I would say marketing the chip to bunch of hardcore gamers is very different from marketing the console to mom and dad at Walmart around Christmas time.
suddenlyissoon
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I wouldn't mind Xbox One Zero since it's apparently going to further combine Xbox and Windows.
Who is the audience for the Scorpio marketing up to this point? There's your answer.
They are obviously very proud that they are going to be able to run stuff at 4K. But they aren't mandating anything to developers and it's not a feature that's interesting enough to the larger audience that it warrants naming the entire console after it.
Dagobert Duck
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Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Xbox One Elite
SSGSSXOE for short
SSGSSXOE for short
MightyHedgehog
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Xbonx Revenge to follow in 2020!
therealbigrich
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I would agree. Feel like the thing about gaf is some sees things for the big picture and others see things as just as only they would.
ambar_hitman
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Xbox 1.5
ChainsawFilms
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Always assumed XB1X
Hoping for Reinvented though, for the XBoneR jokes.
Hoping for Reinvented though, for the XBoneR jokes.
Deputy Moonman
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But the bigger question is why? Why are so many people hung up on this? Scorpio is something new. Microsoft doesn't want to rehash an already used designation. Makes zero sense. They'd be better off using Xbox Royalty than Xbox Elite lol.
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