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This article was published by Michael Leary (@Terronium-12) on August 13th, 2017 in the Gaming category.
My biggest gripe is cost of replacement controllers. Bought a DS4 for £49 the other day, there is no justification for that price imo. The tech isn't that expensive, they must have produced 100 million controllers. So that should bring the cost of production down and thus the cost of the product. The RRP is the same as 3 years ago. I'm aware you can get it cheaper from Amazon but I needed one asap and that meant my local town.Everything gaming related is too expensive.
$500 for a console, $800 for a decent PC, $400 for a wheel, $60 per game.
It takes $1000 today to get into a decent sim racing setup.
Rant over.
The real question is what does MS have into each Xbone X.
What's the markup?
Does this mean its going to be £499 in the UK?
My biggest gripe is cost of replacement controllers. Bought a DS4 for £49 the other day, there is no justification for that price imo. The tech isn't that expensive, they must have produced 100 million controllers. So that should bring the cost of production down and thus the cost of the product. It no, the RRP is the same as 3 years ago. I'm aware you can get it cheaper from Amazon but I needed one asap and that meant my !oval town.
Does this mean its going to be £499 in the UK?
My biggest gripe is cost of replacement controllers. Bought a DS4 for £49 the other day, there is no justification for that price imo. The tech isn't that expensive, they must have produced 100 million controllers. So that should bring the cost of production down and thus the cost of the product. It no, the RRP is the same as 3 years ago. I'm aware you can get it cheaper from Amazon but I needed one asap and that meant my !oval town.
$700? they would have to be ****ing insane! remember the PS3 at $599? people went nuts lol.It's actually cheaper than I was expecting. I was expecting $700 (USD) for the new console. So $500 (USD) sounds a lot better. But for the difference in price compared to the One S that does most of the same things the X will do, I wonder if those shopping for and Xbox will just get the S because of the price and the fact that they may not have an 4K TV. I have the 2TB One S and I want a One X but if I do get the One X I won't be buying another console for a while. That will be 2 new consoles in less than 2 years. Gaming is getting expensive.
$429.99 Holy 🤬!No its not expensive for the technology, in 1994/95 we were paying this for a playstation.
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Everything gaming related is too expensive.
$500 for a console, $800 for a decent PC, $400 for a wheel, $60 per game.
It takes $1000 today to get into a decent sim racing setup.
Rant over.
The real question is what does MS have into each Xbone X.
What's the markup?
$429.99 Holy 🤬!
Oh right, I'm sorry for my mistake. But still, holy s:censored:!Its uk pounds actually £429
Oh right, I'm sorry for my mistake. But still, holy s:censored:!
I would probably Take an option to trade in my console. Especially with Games like Project Cars 2 it should make a big difference in framerate
Looks like this will be the cost in Australia The Xbox One X Will Cost $649 In Australia | Kotaku AustraliaA PS3 in 2007 was 1000 bucks in Australia. But I'm not sure what the ONE X would be here. I'm guessing $599 lowest and probably at least less than $800 the most
For the specs it offers it can handle most indi developed games 4K/60 FPS. But, in my honest opinion your only getting a better GPU in the end, and a overclocked CPU from a slightly tuned FX brand chipset. I'll give MS and Turn 10 credit they know the customer wants more DLC and pre-orders, with extra hype sauce, but this strategy of hyping things is out of control for my tastes. I've been hyped before about games and the such, but that was the first mistake I have made in gaming for me. I now know not to hype hardware and or video games because they may suck.
Here's the specs from all the Xbox's released:
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Regular X: Jaguar FX CPU: 1.75GHz 8-cores, RAM: 8 GBs DDR3, GPU: 885MHz 1.5 TeraFlops
Xbox One S: Jaguar FX CPU: 1.75GHz 8-Cores, RAM: 8 GB DDR3, GPU: 914MHz 1.4 TeraFlops
Xbox One X: Jaguar FX CPU: 2.3GHz 8-Cores, RAM 12 GB GDDR5, GPU: 1.117MHz 6.0 TeraFlops
http://kotaku.com/here-are-the-xbox-one-xs-specs-1796006060
It doesn't seem too different, except for the excessive amount of GPU upgrades this console family did get, but I am very skeptical about this, and I bet many others are too. Sure you'll be getting 4K in racing games because they are less demanding than let's say Doom, but the processor would need to upgraded a fair amount to get direct 4K resolution for the amount of stuff a game like Doom calculates in terms of performance. If I were a Xbox customer I'd stick with the regular One, Slim or the One S. Upgrades to consoles like this is a very bad idea, if Sony is about to release the PS5 in let's say 2020 or 2019 then I'd say some consumers may have made a bad decision.
That's just what I think could happen, but it's highly possible. I just think it's outrageous that we are getting Phone like upgrades. Like for example, the iPhone family goes like this: iPhone 6, 6S, and 6S+ with very minimal features applied.
? Good for you?I can even switch to Xbox if I can play Gran Turismo, or,,, Nothing done!
or,.. bad for them!? Good for you?
PCARS 2 and FM7>>>>>>>GTS in everything but graphics