Topic: The everything Xbox thread

This new Xbox fridge looks like a PC. I hope the PS5 doesn't look like this. I guess I'll wait for the Xbox Series X Slim that'll come a few years after Series X releases.

Looks exactly like my air purifier.

Eh, I don't mind the name & it looks a lot like my PC, so that's fine.... It'll be far more about the games & there'll be at least some colour options available by the time I'd get it

Given that they're still saying Halo will be cross-gen, I doubt I'll get this console for quite a few years. Unless they surprise us with some insane exclusives.

Since you can lay it flat my size concerns about the XSX have been alleviated. That being said given the reveal this has moved firmly to a "not before 2023 purchase". with the gap between this box and pc shrinking and since i think ill keep game pass..I'll likely be better suited to just upgrading my pc (doesn't really need it but why not). So far the only perk for me is the possibility that I can put my 360 and xbox one in a box.

@NEStalgia Yeah, indeed. I guess we're just going to have to trust it's there, instead of actually crash-testing it...

Liking the midi tower Xbox Scarlett, erm... series X design, by the way. Also "liking" all the idiotic comments about people complaining where to put it, because they apparently missed that you can also lay it on its side. Stay golden, peoples of the interwebs...

First they give us the xbone, then the xbox sad, now the xbox sex.

It's like they're telling a story.

Hadn't seen that, @ThanosReXXX.... I'll be weird & have it standing, though There'd be room for it either way on the bottom shelf with my desk, so that's certainly not a problem for me

@Eel Yup. First it was alone, then it became sad, then it had sex, so the next Xbox will probably be the Xbox Family, or Xbox Unity, or Xbox Multiply...

@BruceCM It's not in the trailer, but it was mentioned afterwards, in interviews. Multiple sources are already mentioning it. The disc slot will be in the top left position when the console is placed horizontally.

@Eel
Xbox Sex ?? 🤣
It should be the 6th generation of Xbox.

Can't wait for Xbox midlife crisis.

@BruceCM Here you go:
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/12/12/21019925/xbox-series...

@Eel LOL. I thought we already went through that with XBone?

@ThanosReXXX The design is cool enough, but I still can't help but laugh at the garbage Nintendo took for the Cube and now XBox comes out with.....a cube-type design as the next big thing.

The name however is just dumbfounding. First Xbox, then Xbox 360, then XBox 1. Then the 1S. Then the 1X. (Do you have any Xbox One Xes in stock? No, not S, X. Nono, I said X. Like Xanadu...no, not roller skates. XBox 1 X!

And how they could fix that, and they instead went with XBox Series X. Thing better tie in with X1X heavily like we initially thought, considering it sounds like the same name with similar design language. Why not XU?

WiiU: No longer the worst named console.

All the relevant info, and some interesting viewpoints from the article writer:
https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/13/21020046/microsoft-xbox-o...

@NEStalgia it shows a growth in maturity after a phase of depression, referring to the act directly instead of using a funny nickname.

@NEStalgia From what I saw, and what funnily enough is also said by the writer of the article that I just posted in my previous comment, the design is all about power. The GameCube's design obviously was not, so that comparison is a bit faulty.

Microsoft needed a big box to put all the power in, and a sleek, flat design probably didn't suffice for several reasons, tech-wise, so they went with the midi-tower design. Otherwise they would more than likely not have chosen this form factor. It's not like they haven't been thinking this through well enough, unlike what some people already seem to think.

EDIT:
The name actually also makes sense, if you retrace all that Phil Spencer has said about it. They wanted to unify the platform, bring all generations together, and not alienate current gen owners, so they're now all combined in the family of consoles that is the X-series. It'll probably take some getting used to, but I'm betting that it's going to grow on people, once the meaning and intent of Phil's philosophy starts to sink in...

@ThanosReXXX Huh, that might be their intent. To me the new design doesn't scream power at all so much as minimalism and the console hardware being "invisible." It's a svelte black rectangle with no prominent shapes, accents, colors, textures or features. Just a minimalist small logo that's also a functional button. It's not a large box, has minimal lights, and is quiet. It's the opposite of the very "loud" (in every way) OG XBox. it's like a speaker bar that plays games.

The "Purple Lunchbox" certainly didn't scream power either, yet in both cases, I see them as fairly "invisible" boxes that actually are the most powerful thing around (except the OG XBox topping GCN late in the gen.)

As for Phil's gen discussion....I haven't heard any of that yet, but does that get back to the "no more generations" idea we were all thinking on a year ago?

To me the new design screams PC when vertical and probably a larger version of the 2013 Xbox One model when put horizontal.

Well, it's a lot of room for stickers

@NEStalgia Well, to each their own view, then. But it's the first thing I thought when I saw it: this is a powerhouse console. It needs a big box to process all the heat, and contain all the hardware, and a sleek, thin box probably wouldn't have sufficed, otherwise they'd surely gone with such a design.

Besides the hardware of both parties already being more and more PC like, this box really seals the deal in unifying that idea, so even from a marketing standpoint, I'd say that they've actually made a really smart decision to make it look like that. Just because people have some kind of predisposed notion of what a console should look like, doesn't mean that it actually has to...

And yes, what you mentioned is one of the things that Phil said, but it's not just about there being no more generations. It's all of the quips and quotes that he has been spreading in the media, ever since the first buzz started around Project Scarlett, talking about backwards compatibility, bringing platforms together, allowing scaling of games/entertainment to all supported platforms etc. etc. It all makes perfect sense, both the design or the name, but for now, it's probably still just a bit of an acquired taste for most of us.