Microsoft has just made official the key specs for the upcoming Xbox Series X, and the revelation essentially confirmed a modern gaming machine that will soon touch down. The device will boast of beastly specifications designed for extended durability and handle the taxing requirements of console gaming.
According to Xbox chief Phil Spencer, the new Xbox will usher in a new era of console gaming, and one area that will be highlighted is cloud gaming, which under the Xbox menu will be known as xCloud Streaming.
The Series X will indeed be packed by fresh features, but Spencer is convinced the basic element of console gaming will not be altered in the years to come. The Xbox, for instance, will be bringing jaw-dropping feature jumps in upcoming installments, but the function will remain the same, that is, playing games on a console is not going away.
In an interview, Spencer said he expects the gaming box to remain a necessity in the foreseeable future.
"I think I'm going to have a game console plugged into my television for the next decade plus. The best way for me to play on my TV is to have the local device, download, and play," WCCFTech reported the Xbox boss as saying.
Specifically for gaming, Spencer said the cloud would allow for more features to be integrated with game consoles. The cloud-enabled consumers access and enjoy content, like in television and music, in various, and the same will happen in gaming.
"I think we're going to see a multitude of different devices in my house that allow me to play," Spencer said in illustrating how gaming will benefit from the cloud infrastructure.
As for the Xbox Series X itself, Microsoft has already confirmed that it will be a powerful contraption. The device's processing capability is courtesy of AMD's Zen 2 and RDNA 2 architectures, the latest and the greatest from the chipmaker. This process that the new machine when it lands will be packed with desktop-class gaming muscle.
And more so on the GPU side that Microsoft said will flex at 12TFLOPS. To best understand how powerful this graphics engine is, the GPU might be two times as monstrous as that of the Xbox One X and eight times ahead of the original console release.
However, the one Xbox Series X feature that should prove endearing to gaming fans is the backward compatibility, which Microsoft said will fully support four generations of game titles.
"Our commitment to compatibility means existing Xbox One games, including backward-compatible Xbox 360 and original Xbox games, look and play better than ever before," The Verge reported Spencer as saying.
For instance, Cyberpunk 2077 was confirmed as a cross-generation release for the Xbox platform because the game developer explained: "Gamers should never be forced to purchase the same game twice or pay for upgrades."
