Vi regnede slet ikke med at dette års Game Awards-show skulle være der hvor en masse information om Microsofts næste konsol skulle komme ud, men de valgte selv at indtage scenen og løfte sløret. Det er endnu ikke mange konkrete detaljer der er kommet på bordet, men det hjælper så sandelig på det.
Faktisk har Phil Spencer efter selve afsløringen på scenen gået yderligere i detaljer i en artikel ovre hos GameSpot, hvor han sammenligner Series X-konsollens hestekræfter med den eksisterende Xbox One X.
Han siger blandt andet at konsollens CPU er fire gange hurtigere end den i Xbox One X, og at konsollens GPU er dobbelt så hurtig. Dette skulle give omtrent 12 teraflops, som burde give mulighed for 4K, Ray Tracing-teknologi og mindst 60fps.
"We wanted to have a dramatic upgrade from the Xbox One base console. So when we do the math, we're over eight times the GPU power of the Xbox One, and two times what an Xbox One X is."
"I/O [input/output] is always an issue. How do we move both memory and bits around? So, we have a 40-times improvement in the I/O speed, [increased] bandwidth for us moving things around on the console [compared to] the past generation. And we've upgraded to GDDR6 memory inside of the box to ensure that the memory itself is able to keep up with the CPU, GPU, and the bandwidth requirements."
"We've invested in NVMe solid-state drives and we're also giving developers a lot of new capabilities, and on top of that, try to virtually eliminate load times."