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[CyberPanda]

"We designed [Project] Scarlett with the cloud in mind as well."

Xbox One S consoles in Project xCloud racks will eventually be replaced by Project Scarlett, Microsoft’s Kareem Choudhry confirmed with Stevivor.

For xCloud, Microsoft has deployed 2U racks with eight Xbox One S consoles in each across thirteen Azure data centres worldwide. Choudhry told Stevivor that Project xCloud will evolve over time.

“We designed [Project] Scarlett with the cloud in mind as well, and just as you’re going to see our console product family evolve with that next generation, the cloud is going to evolve along with it,” Choudhry told Stevivor at X019.

Fortune Magazine was walked through current Project xCloud hardware in the video below.

Project xCloud is in an active trial in the UK, the US and Korea. The preview program will extend to more regions— and more devices — in 2020

Project Scarlett will replace Xbox One S in Project xCloud

Xbox One S consoles in Project xCloud racks will eventually be replaced by Project Scarlett, Microsoft's Kareem Choudhry confirmed with Stevivor. For xCloud

stevivor.com

 

[Lone Wolf]

This is what I thought they would do. When Scarlet launches, Xbox one X will be discontinued

 

[bitbydeath]

This is what I thought they would do. When Scarlet launches, Xbox one X will be discontinued

This is only talking about the machines that power xCloud. Not the consumer machines.

 

[Lone Wolf]

This is only talking about the machines that power xCloud. Not the consumer machines.

I know, I’m just adding That.

 

[jshackles]

Expected, but good to hear confirmation anyway.

 

[Fake]

Probably for the best.

 

[CyberPanda]

Expected, but good to hear confirmation anyway.

Yep.

 

[Elenchus]

This is going to kill a very popular narrative.

 

[Mass Shift]

This is what I thought they would do. When Scarlet launches, Xbox one X will be discontinued

You might be right. Microsoft stopped manufacturing the 360 in early 2016. But the 360 was still popular and selling pretty well after 2013.

Gven the XOne's lack of popularity, it will NOT have the same afterlife as the 360 did after Scarlet launches. The XOne family will still have Live, Pass and time limited crossgen support, but no one will be able to purchase any of them. And MS will be all too anxious to close the book on the XOne.

 

[CyberPanda]

This is going to kill a very popular narrative.

For sure

 

[bumleforce]

I just got into x cloud today. i was expecting a lot of lag. Not even playing at home. connected my old lg phone of100 bucks to a 200 mb work wifi with other deices using network. Tried ori first. Ran great really surprised. Played gears. very little lag did notice a bit when i turned cam but overall totally playable. Deided to go for a ation game so went with darksiders. It felt like i was playing right from the console. so good and responsive. This blows me away. I love that I can play on a console and wince im someone who is always working or on the go I can just bust this out and keep playing. Will be perfect for when pillers 2 comes out or divinity or even doing playing regular action games. This is a game changr and while its bundled with gamepass helps me think xbox has next gen on lockdown now. great 1st party support great hardware. great services. x cloud.

 

[quest]

This is going to kill a very popular narrative.

Don't expect this thread to be popular lol. It does not support MS manufacturing and supporting the base one until 2050 holding games back that entire times. While the the PS7 blows those games away lol.

 

[nikolino840]

Yeah but if they rise res/fps there's problems like stadia, becouse Need more Internet power

 

[ZywyPL]

Man, the X1S that runs xCloud right now is already killing Stadia with its high-end specs, I can only imagine what Scarlett-based streaming will deliver, 4K HDR 60FPS starts to feel doable. If MS will indeed take care of upgrading the hardware every now and then, they will cover pretty much every checkbox of what a streaming gaming service should look like. Really interested to see how it will evolve in the future.

 

[TeamGhobad]

FP64 confirmed. disaster head on..

 

[Rolling_Start]

MS use virtual machines to run game instances, even on consumer Xbox units (hypervisor, game OS, dash OS).

I wouldn't be suprised if a single Scarlett could run two or even three instances of an Xbox 1 S game. It'll have the CPU, the memory, the GPU, the storage access speed. Should have everything.

You'll save rack space and probably increase power efficiency per game played.

 

[FranXico]

This is going to kill a very popular narrative.

Which narrative?
I'm not surprised at all by (soon obsolete) hardware being replaced server-side.

FP64 confirmed. disaster head on..

What disaster?

 

[TeamGhobad]

What disaster?

SoC is occupied with server stuff.

 

[FranXico]

SoC is occupied with server stuff.

SoC for server blades is likely different from the consumer product SoC.

 

[TeamGhobad]

SoC for server blades is likely different from the consumer product SoC.

that was the old rumor from last year which lead to ps5 being more powerful. MS expected sony to sell the ps5 for profit and they would sell it at a loss but double as a server blade. sony is now also selling at a loss. once again the xbox soc is gimped.

 

[Rolling_Start]

Depends on what your server is focused on. Very high int8 performance for example could have some interesting uses in games down the line.

It looks like both MS and Sony are based on Navi though, so there probably isn't going to be too much difference in things like FP64 ability. Though I guess we'll see.

 

[CeeJay]

Don't expect this thread to be popular lol. It does not support MS manufacturing and supporting the base one until 2050 holding games back that entire times. While the the PS7 blows those games away lol.

Yeah right, hyperbole. No one has been saying that. The general consensus is that at the start all games will work on current hardware but then by the time we get towards the end of the coming gen there will be very few games coming out that still work on the current hardware.

 

[Bryank75]

So, let me get this straight.... this Stevivor guy pans Death Stranding and a few days later he is at X019 getting an exclusive scoop?

That doesn't look good to me!

 

[FranXico]

So, let me get this straight.... this Stevivor guy pans Death Stranding and a few days later he is at X019 getting an exclusive scoop?

That doesn't look good to me!

MS invited all sorts of news outlets, sites and content creators to X019 for coverage, nothing more.
I just saw a video of the Laymen Gaming guys at X019 wearing their GoW and Kojima sweaters, jokingly saying they were "shilling Xbox".

If someone happens to be an Xbox fanboy, that's another story.

 

[Rolling_Start]

Yeah right, hyperbole. No one has been saying that. The general consensus is that at the start all games will work on current hardware but then by the time we get towards the end of the coming gen there will be very few games coming out that still work on the current hardware.

I give it about 18 months after launch until cross platform games start dropping like flies.

So, let me get this straight.... this Stevivor guy pans Death Stranding and a few days later he is at X019 getting an exclusive scoop?

That doesn't look good to me!

Yeah, MS decided to risk bribing Stevivor - and Stevivor alone - to give highly divisive game "Death Stranding" a low mark in exchange for revealing things we already know.

Credit where it's due though, Setevivovioir is good at making a name for himself.

 

[Pallas]

that was the old rumor from last year which lead to ps5 being more powerful. MS expected sony to sell the ps5 for profit and they would sell it at a loss but double as a server blade. sony is now also selling at a loss. once again the xbox soc is gimped.

A rumor doesn’t make it gimped and as FranXico mentioned above the consumer version and the version used for server blades could be different.

 

[TeamGhobad]

A rumor doesn’t make it gimped and as FranXico mentioned above the consumer version and the version used for server blades could be different.

COULD BE, but it isn't. it would take too much engineering time and effort to create two versions. nope.

 

[TeamGhobad]

So, let me get this straight.... this Stevivor guy pans Death Stranding and a few days later he is at X019 getting an exclusive scoop?

That doesn't look good to me!

although i agreed with his opinion, his writing was at a junior high level.

 

[Pallas]

COULD BE, but it isn't. it would take too much engineering time and effort to create two versions. nope.

Yet you’re going off on an old rumor? “It’ll be too much time and effort” isn’t a valid rebuttal. Especially when you take the company behind it into perspective. Stop spreading false information based on a rumor.