At Generation Xbox, we have been supporting the entire community for over 10 years. Yes, both with those who follow us and with those who do not follow us. Because in the same way, your opinion is a standard to measure the temperature of the current state of the Xbox. Last month we experienced one of the strangest periods of change since we arrived here, with uncertainty generated by unprecedented rumors. At times it seemed like Xbox would never be what it was again.
But, of course, this did not turn out to be the case and we are convinced that the future of the video game industry lies in expanding and gradually abandoning the concept of exclusivity and letting the services or the quality of the content of each brand decide its destiny. But Sony seems to want to repeat the “success” of the PS4 Pro, with a refreshed console in the middle of this generation or a Premium console, with the rumor and almost real, PS5 Pro
Perhaps that’s because current consoles haven’t yet aged as expected. The general feeling is that the Xbox Series X and PS5 remain very capable machines that are just starting to show the passage of time. Heading towards 4 years of life in which almost in the first two the stocks of both were scarce, the arrival of this improved version does not seem to have much importance. It’s my personal opinion, whether it’s thanks to resizing technologies, DLSS consolidation or in this case, AMD’s FSR, which has helped a lot. For this very reason, The 33 Teraflops are no longer as impressive on paper. They will have to demonstrate it on the screens.
Lots of Teraflops just for playing GTA 6
We could argue that one of the reasons is due to the technical part, in which the CPU will barely increase the revs, dumping practically all the improvement on the GPU and its performance. A bit as if, unconsciously, it had reproduced the power equivalence between Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S. But it is on the networks that there is not so much “noise”. Indeed, some users, the most radical, demand a response from Microsoft, but, in general, there is no real need for one. In reality, I only saw one main reason that everyone is talking about: being able to play GTA 6 in the best possible way next year. Forgive me for the audacity, but I would even doubt 60 fps on a console where the CPU is once again the weak link
However, yes We have seen the increase in sales of portable devices such as Steam Deck or ASUS Rog Ally, which allow us to invest in a device that reproduces our own catalog, in which we have already invested years and hundreds or thousands of dollars, because of course it cannot be denied that power matters, of course , but as Shawn Layden, ex-Sony and now working for Tencent, rightly said recently: The era of gamers is changing. Today, there are more players between 30 and 40 years old who have purchasing power and it shows.
Of course, this is a limited segment that does not really aspire to develop, but personally, finding myself in this situation, I have already It doesn’t help as much to invest in a device that does the same thing, but looks better, as it does in a device that literally allows me to “play longer.”In this case, a laptop that allows me to play these same titles, progress in my own games, without having to be tied to a specific location, would help increase gaming hours.
Maybe it’s just my perception or that of gamers our age, who don’t have too much trouble financing a PS5 Pro, but we don’t see much use in such an investment. Just yesterday we announced that a new Xbox Development Kit (SDK) had been filed in Korea, which indicates the imminent presence of a new Microsoft console and if we follow the pattern of the previous ones, we will probably see this same year. Will this be the long-awaited Xbox laptop? Or will we also have our share of Teraflops? What do you prefer?