DenchDeckard
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hahaha, Seems like a very professional tweet to post in the public forum!
Not butthurt at all, nope!
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RUMOR: Leaker Kepler thinks the next Xbox is coming sooner than 2028
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hahaha, Seems like a very professional tweet to post in the public forum!
Not butthurt at all, nope!
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
It's MS's style ala Greenberg tho, innit?
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
Bernoulli
M2 slut
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
I still think late next year is on the table yet
Negotiator101
Member
last question sorry but we are talking about a next-gen console right? not a mid gen ungrade like the PS5 Pro?
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
Total nextgen console
TheBomb
Member
2026? That to me is a longways to be announced next week, but if true. How will this work with supposedly releasing games to your competitors?
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Disaster in the making!
ozz ex machina
Member
Is there such a thing anymore? These are all just PCs. It's never going to be such a leap or massive change in technology. Start treating these things like iphone generations.
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
Maybe but if its the very best place for me to play say GTA6 I am buying one
Its not going to be Zen 2 supposed to be Zen 5
dem
Member
I agree...
Generations are dead.
Whats PS 6 gonna be?
A higher powered box that plays the same games as PS5...
There is no more reinventing going on.
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twilo99
Member
Big bravo if true
Negotiator101
Member
Well going by last time the CPU will stay the same and the GPU and memory will see an upgrade in the Pro model. Obviously a next-gen system would be a significant improvement across the board and would if true give Xbox a big technical advantage presumably for years if the 2025/26 date is true.
Kaiserstark
Member
If they choose to do that and it doesn't work, the Xbox consoles are probably dead. Specially when you can also having Sony starting to tease his next-gen console in 2027 for a 2028 release.
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Stuart360
Member
I said many times that i thought they would try and get out 1-2 years before Sony with the PS6. I also feel the reason why all their studios still are not producing regular releases is because some of those games have been pushed to be launch games on the new console. So they have a healthy selection of games at launch.
I didnt expect a handheld though.
I feel this will be their last throw of the dice in terms of hardware. If they dont hit their targets next gen, they will just move full third party the gen after, or go full subscription service, which has already been the end goal anyway in terms of long term.
I didnt expect a handheld though.
I feel this will be their last throw of the dice in terms of hardware. If they dont hit their targets next gen, they will just move full third party the gen after, or go full subscription service, which has already been the end goal anyway in terms of long term.
saintjules
Member
The next Playstation Console has to push the visual fidelity mark. I want to see gameplay graphics looking borderline CGI, with little to no issues in performance.
That's the only thing I can think of that can really push the boundaries of gaming in the next generation for me.
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Daneel Elijah
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So we are at a new console around 2026 for the home and a switch like dockable console for the casuals? I don't get the OEM rumor, wich one of the two will it be? Weird how they always are one step too late. I am curious of why they are using another team for the handheld, unless it will have Windows somehow. If steam is available on it, I will have to look at it at some point. As for the traditional one, I can't see it work unless they find the way to have a killer launch with many games on it. I understand that GTA 6 will be a good game but if the console is out after GTA launch few people will buy another console for it. And the PS5 Pro and the Switch 2 will probably be there first, and use the time to sell hopefully well. Next week will be fascinating.
kruis
Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
Lots of people thought the Xbox Series S was a mistake, because its low specs was going to limit what games on the Series X were potentially capable of. That's only going to get worse when both Sony and MS intend to release PS 5/Xbox Next compatible handhelds. It'll be the end of generational leaps in image quality, everything will be cross-gen from that point on.
If launching a new console in 2026 was the decision they have made.... What comes to mind would be an XSS 2-3 years ahead of an XSX instead of being launched at the same time as in this generation. In fact, if XSS had been released in 2018, it might have been better received
.Or simply that they have decided the iPhone strategy with periodic hardware updates to play the same games while it is the software that decides the support.
Be it one or the other, it is clear that it would be a way out compared to competing against the hype of a new PS the same year, which is clearly something that has never gone well.
I don't know, maybe next week there will be more light on the future of XBOX hardware.
Negotiator101
Member
Well we all know how fast they produced the 360 (and what a console that was) given the original Xbox release date. We also don't know how they'll be handling exclusive titles either this time around given the current rumours but they're obviously remaining in the hardware space for the foreseeable future, and that didn't seem likely when the shit hit the fan.
SportsFan581
Member
Rumors here, rumors there, rumors everywhere. Hopefully Phil can offer at least some clarity on the state of all things Xbox. Can't expect them give up their entire roadmap though, regardless of whichever way the wind is blowing.
Negotiator101
, agreed about the time to completion. These are basically PCs now, if they want to speed run something I'm sure they could.
Negotiator101
, agreed about the time to completion. These are basically PCs now, if they want to speed run something I'm sure they could.
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XesqueVara
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2026 is ZEN5/RDNA 5 cycle for amd, would be a great update over the actual boxes if true.
SEGAvangelist
Member
That's a pretty massive jump in power from what I'm reading. Gonna be expensive. I wonder what they go with for the portable/Switch style console, though. Can't really go with a stripped down version like the Series S currently works.
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
Highly possible its more expensive than usual and yeah supposedly is a big power bump
Del_X
Member
They might be able to pull it off. If it's targeting 720p vs 1080p-1440p that gives quite a lot of headroom on the graphics side. CPU being the same should help. Other things like targeting 30fps would also alleviate a lot of demand for fast RAM. Another thing would be just giving up on parity between the two systems. No co-op on the handheld? No biggie. Shit-ass draw distances and sparse NPC density? Who cares.
SEGAvangelist
Member
I bet the portable/hybrid won't be cheap as well. I wonder if we see a $399/$699 pricing or something like that. For real, though, what could they possibly do with the hybrid to not be massively different than the big daddy? Mobile versions of these architectures usually don't come out for a bit later after these big revamps.
Starcheif
Member
They could sale the portable using Verizon or some cellular company since it will need Cellular date for streaming and just bundle it like they would a cell phone etc.
Clintizzle
Lord of Edge.
The Xbox handheld should just be a controller. All the hardware is in the controller and all you need to do is pair it with a screen. I can pair it with my phone screen, Any TV screen heck I can even pair it with the screen in my Tesla.
Best part. Runs on AA batteries.
Best part. Runs on AA batteries.
DenchDeckard
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I hope, if they do a handheld that they open up the os to manufacturers like Asus so I can buy my rog ally v2 that is a portable xbox. That would be huge.
midnightAI
Member
Why do they need to do that when portable gaming PC's already run windows and so PC gamepass? I suppose MS could add a 'game boot' mode to Windows to boot right into an Xbox like dashboard to improve navigation but why restrict these handhelds? Part of the appeal is you can dock them and use as full PC's
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DenchDeckard
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I completely agree, and I did think of that. So yeah, MS needs to make PC xbox run everything the console does. That's the dream for the long term, in the short term they could have a xbox version, or partition that loads into the xbox abk to allow all console software to run on the device.
midnightAI
Member
That would require console software to have masses of settings for different hardware taking away the benefit of consoles which is standardised hardware, or are you talking about having standardised hardware but made by different OEM's, like the 3DO?