Oh.

It's just a PC.

The Xbox PC.

Oh, the controller's a little different too.

Xbox Series X.

Okay.

Hey, guys, this is Austin

and today Microsoft surprise announced

the brand new Xbox, I almost said One,

the Xbox Series X.

It is wild that they've done it so early

because while we've already heard some talk about Scarlett,

generally speaking this stuff doesn't get announced

properly until E3 of next year.

Now the first thing that jumps out to me is the name.

The Series X sounds very much like

they're sort of planning for multiple consoles.

So obviously with the Xbox One S and the One X

I wouldn't be surprised, especially given the rumors,

that this is only one

of the brand new Xbox Series of console,

being maybe an X on the high end, an S on the low end.

But that Hardware, did you see it's a PC?

Which it shouldn't really be particularly surprising, right?

I mean, obviously this is something

which is a very PC derived architecture.

I mean, we're looking at Zen cores inside,

it's pretty much a Ryzen processor and like a Navi GPU

but the fact that they've gone with such a,

I don't want to say boring design,

I'm sure it looks great in person,

but like it's, it's different.

And by different I mean it's a PC.

So let's break down what's new

and something that this trailer doesn't really get across

is the actual physical dimensions of it.

So it looks big, I have a feeling

it's going to be a little bit smaller than it actually looks

but you can put it not only horizontally but vertically.

And on top of that there's a lot of specific information

on what's inside.

So some of what we already knew.

It is running AMD's Zen 2 cores,

essentially it's the third generation of Ryezn.

We also do know that it is taking advantage

of a very fast SSD as well as it has the RDNA base GPU.

Now the exact specifics of that

is probably going to have to wait a little bit longer

but we know for sure this is a very powerful console.

A lot of this is actually sort of backed up

by not only the gameplay, but the actual pure spec of it.

As this guy is not only targeting 4K 60,

which I think is a very reasonable decision.

But it can go all the way up to 120 frames per second,

supposedly, I think the exact phrasing they used is,

there's the possibility of up to 120 frames per second.

But they also have confirmed 8K support.

now Microsoft is claiming that it has

four times the processing power of the Xbox One X.

Now, based on what we've done when we were trying to build

our own version of the PS5 or the Series X,

we found that the CPU is really

the major upgrade this generation.

Previously it was really slow

on not only the PS4 but especially on the Xbox.

I mean, it just was not particularly fast.

However, by jumping up to Ryzen they're getting a huge jump

and I assume that that's where a lot of that

four times better processing number comes from.

However, don't count the GPU out either.

I mean, with RDNA on board

you're probably looking at least twice the graphics

of the already very powerful Xbox One X

and when you put that all together in a PC chassis

we get the Series X.

Now one of like big questions going into this generation

that was sort of share with last,

but especially as we're coming into this one,

is what is the difference between the Xbox Series X

and the PlayStation 5?

Well, Microsoft is getting out ahead

by not only obviously announcing it a little bit sooner

but by showing some of the major technologies

that they've worked on.

So looking at a blog post that they literally just put up

there are a few things that really jump out to me.

So it does support variable refresh rates,

not really that special as the current generation Xbox

actually does support FreeSync.

Although the fact that you can

go all the way up to 120 frames per second is nice,

I'm gonna mute my laptop now.

That was definitely you. - Sorry.

- That was definitely you. - I liked your Tweet!

I was giving you praise.

- Because both the PlayStation and Xbox sides of the camp

are very much sharing what seems to be similar hardware,

I'm sure there will be some differences.

in the actual exact spec

but the basic building blocks are very much shared.

Some of the stuff that Microsoft is really highlighting here

is more on the technical side.

So they are showing off their Variable Rate Shading,

which apparently is patented

which I actually am not so sure exactly

what makes their version different

than what some other game developers have been working on

but essentially this should allow

better performance with that same level of hardware

by only shading the areas

which are specifically needed for the games.

Now some of the other things

they were really talking about

is the fact they really want to cut down on latency.

Now actually some of this

is probably coming from the AMD side

as they've been really pushing a lot of their anti-lag tech

to really kind of inside the driver level

kind of just cut down exactly how much sort of

latency there is between when you make an action

and when that frame is actually delivered.

The Auto Low Latency Mode

as well as the dynamic latency input

which will make the Xbox Series X quote,

"The most responsive console ever."

Now especially considering that so many TVs these days

have surprisingly solid game modes

if the console itself can shave off latency

that will play its role

for not only the console when you buy it

but also for the cloud as they straight up say

"Xbox Series X is also designed for a future in the cloud

"with unique capabilities

"built into the hardware and software

"to make it easy as possible to bring great games,"

blah blah blah, who cares.

The main idea here is that

similar to what they've been doing with xCloud currently

which is essentially a bunch of Xbox One S motherboards

put into a server blade,

there's a little bit more to it than that,

it's been overclocked

and there's some additional hardware added

but it seems like a lot of the work

that they were doing to customize it

is being built into the Series X,

which has some interesting implications.

not only can you imagine a whole server farm

full of these Series Xs

to power the 4K streaming that you might expect on xCloud

but on top of that you very well might be able to

if they're already baking that in,

you might be able to actually do that

with your home console.

I can very easily imagine a scenario

in which your Xbox Series X can

stream to your personal device no matter where you are,

sort of like your own personal cloud

or you could pay for xCloud as well.

That's actually really interesting

that they made specific note to say

that this Series X does have cloud capability built in

on the software as well as on the hardware front.

They also announced Hellblade II

and we actually have some gameplay

that was apparently captured in engine,

so it's not pure pure gameplay but it was captured in engine

on the Series X.

I'm literally be watching this for the first time with you

because this all was announced 17 seconds ago

and I'm scrambling to make a video because content.

Okay, that shot right there.

This shot straight up looks like a real thing.

Like if someone showed me that

and like I'm watching a movie or something

I wouldn't question it, that's really incredible.

Wow, the fidelity is incredible.

Look at the depth of field.

(chanting)

Well this is disturbing, this is very disturbing.

Wow.

So the thing that's really jumping out to me

looking at this footage

is not so much about resolution, right.

So when you look at the current generation of consoles

they were generally speaking built for 1080p

and then the upgrade PS4 Pro on the One X

we're really just taking those same games

and bring them up to a 4K resolution.

That's fine but pixels aren't everything.

Team crispy is not the only thing that you care about.

So the thing that I'm really sort of getting here

is the level of detail inside that 4K frame, right.

I mean, you could run Half-Life 1 at 4K

but it doesn't mean it's a true 4K experience

without having everything that goes along with it.

The high resolution textures, the incredible level of detail

that is provided by what I'm assuming

is a very large amount of memory on these,

as well as just all the little effects work and stuff.

I mean, it actually looks like a generational leap.

Which is nice and I think in a large part

that's going to be due not only to the GPU

but the CPU is also going to be able to handle

much larger worlds, much more physics.

Looking at this footage, we're not that far away

from fairly photorealistic real-time graphics.

So yeah, sure, when we look at like the actual facial model

it's not quite there,

you can tell there's a little tiny bit of not,

it's not it's not quite Uncanny Valley

but you can tell this is fake.

When you look at some of the landscapes,

some of the vistas that are capable on the Series X,

I mean, that's incredible.

Like this honestly, I'm surprised.

This looks better than what you can find

even on like a lot of high-end PC games.

Which makes sense because the Series X is a high-end PC

with actual money and development spent on optimization.

The controller is also, well, technically all-new

however it actually looks very, very similar to the One.

So many things I see different here

is that the D-pa looks similar

to what we get on the Elite Series 2

and there looks to be an added share button on it

and beyond that it's an Xbox One controller,

which does make sense.

So as I mute my laptop for the fourth time in this video,

the thing that sort of makes this generation interesting

is that there is a lot of crossplay.

So as I was going to get into in a second

but I'll just talk about now,

the Xbox Series X is capable of running

pretty much all older Xbox titles.

So all the work that Microsoft has done

on getting the Xbox One to run, say,

original Xbox games or 360,

all that's being ported over to the Series X.

You should be able to still continue to play

your original games, 360, as well as your Xbox One games

on the Series X and part of that

is also including accessories.

So there's actually a really interesting quote here.

So they say the new Xbox wireless controller

will be compatible with the older Xbox One