I believe we will be the first to game on a development kit words cannot
express how excited I am right now I've completely sequestered myself I haven't
looked at any other coverage I haven't looked at any pictures and I have not
yet opened this box but inside here is
an Xbox series X totally normal except
for the fact that it has 40 GB of RAM
extra buttons on the front an OLED display and it looks absolutely
abolutely nothing like the Xbox on the Shelf at Best Buy that's because this
Xbox it's not for playing games it's for
developing them and because these devkits as they're called are the
property of Microsoft very few of them make it out into the wild uh Microsoft
by the way I know this is technically stolen property um we good just give me
a call I'll have it back to you right away but I do need to play with it for a
little bit first and play I actually may
now Gamers Nexus recently also got their hands on a series X dev kit but they
weren't able to actually run any software on it as for ours we believe it
may still be in working order but all of
this raises quite a few questions why do these kits exist how the heck has
everyone been getting their hands on these lately why does it look so
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below either my left ARM is way weaker this thing is way heavier than the
actual finished product it has 10 gig Ethernet what the is going on right
now okay we need to get this going here I know absolutely nothing about this
other than that it's a dev kit and Dev kits are a thing I can't believe it has
a 10 gig Network Port why is it labeled debug I guess if they wanted to know
what the actual Hardware capabilities are when downloading files at like
future network speeds or something like that based on the history of this device
that we got from our seller we're pretty sure that aside from them and our
Logistics team who had to inventory this bad boy we're the first ones to really
unpack everything and power this thing on a small Studio went under and a few
of these special development kits ended up sitting in a warehouse somewhere they
got access picked one up posted it to Reddit and the rest is history we ended
up paying somewhere in the neighborhood of around
2,000 thank you very much seller who posted a price and then turned it into a
bidding war we're very happy we have it because opportunities to get your hands
on a code name Scarlet development kit
are not going to come around very often I mean out outside of developers nobody
should ever see this and yet here we are
these are features that most people really wouldn't need don't give them too
much information I mean last thing you want is the exact details leaking and I
guarantee you that part of the legal agreement you have to sign to get one of
these says you do not open it up stack up to five xdk vertically yeah for them
that would be a pretty big deal I guess you know you got to pack in your play
testers why else would I need to back Xboxes tell me come on sit come come
come come come come come that's pretty much it one QA person might have
something like four XBox Four kits at their desk and they're going to stack
them to save space and then on top of that you're going to have racks that are
running Automation and stuff like that and usually you can get away with having
each one on an individual rack that's the ideal but sometimes you stack them
up a little bit out of something like this lots of stuff um I put it all on
the script but plausible deniability right here I
don't actually know what the buttons do I know what the buttons but here's my
concept they can be programmed they can they can be programmed so they can do whatever you want you would show
something like animation States okay nav mesh that's on the ground so that you
can see like oh there's a level here there's a hole that they could fall
through there's a hole they could fall through or like wire and the enem is moving around oh there's no nav Mash but
oh so cool so you can turn on nav mesh so that you can sheat buttons kind of
these are probably more like turn on FPS turn on Geo turn on like stuff like that
yeah so you want like a quick store button you can can be like press the number five and it'll take you to the
store it's whatever the programmers want to do right so and then give the the
tools to QA so that they can QA faster okay programmable OLED display and I can
see right here it's showing SSD speed and FPS man especially now that we know
that Xbox is more of an ecosystem and less of an individual device and they
intend for games to run on multiple tiers of the hardware like if I wanted
to upsell better Xboxes enable freaking
FPS counters you buttheads why do I have to explain why this is a good idea
front-facing USB 3.1 gen one so you could just connect all the controllers
with a wire yeah so Microsoft knows it's convenient they just don't care what
that tells you is that the S so has this
functionality it is definitely in there they did not respin it and remove USBC
from it so it's got a total of six USB ports four type a two type c and
Microsoft removed them it has a higher speed development SD it's like it's the
it's some of the coolest stuff whether you're Sony or your Microsoft or
whatever it's some of the coolest stuff they make because it's it's The Cutting
Edge look at this giant foot I know
that's not a that's not a foot that's a whole CLE so you can stack them no
problem like all this fan here and all the vents are on the side we actually
had a retail kit like catch fire at one point cuz it was stacked cuz the old
Xboxes they had the vents on the top right on the one side yeah yeah okay
let's talk about an optimized build that would be why it has 40 gigs of
gddr6 memory then right pretty pretty much but this one's a little out of the
ordinary because normally so for example with Scorpio um the devkit had double
the memory 12 gig kit and then the Scorpio had 24 so they just doubled it
with this a series X is 16 gigs of RAM so they more than doubled it more than
doubled it yeah it went from 32 to 40 so they've added a whole eight eight extra
gigs of RAM no I'm just going to open the Shelf I'll be good okay yeah just be careful with the thermal pads I'll be
good I'll be a good boy it's not even pads boy
good boy they do give these to development companies but you can only
get like two of them for free or for cheap it's they rent it to you for like
100 bucks or something like that any more kits than that and you will usually
have to pay a price um I can't speak to
how much this one will cost or what Xbox is doing now but like for example when I
was at e we had a giant stack of boxes of PS4 Dev kits and they're like yeah
those are like 2500 bucks a pop so a lot of people are actually using the retail
kits for testing a lot of the time
because they're so expensive comparatively and you mostly just need
these guys for like tool development uh
engine development and optimization and stuff that you'd look at before the game
comes out or what before the console launches right you heard it here first I
fix it repairability score very low lots
of adhesive now hold on a second let's say
I declare myself to be a game development Studio I hired a game
developer or I'm going to make a game so
what Microsoft will just send me two of these you have to apply and become part
of the program uh it's called the game developer program or something like that
part of Microsoft got it so they have to say yes we actually yeah you have to
like pitch in the game and be like okay here's our game can we we we want to
make it for Xbox as well can we please have a development kit or two and
they'll typically send it to you I think you're just going to play games on it
how long have you worked here it's okay David if it breaks it's just the plastic
part yeah it's fine it's fine the ports are still there yeah relax buddy it's
fine cool so that's interesting these
are very very not meant to be removed
you can see they're actually melted into place fantastic they don't expect
Engineers to like tear these down or anything if there's any kind of like
major architecture overhaul for it then they'll try to figure out how to run
their games on on the new architecture but luckily they're all pretty much
computers now so it's a lot easier like PS3 was notably really a pain in the ass
to develop for all right we might have to go a little
deeper okay it's probably more of the same kind of plastic cles oh interesting
yeah this is they're really not meant to be taken apart this is one time assembly
ladies and gentlemen you know what this is as far as I want to go before at
least trying to power this thing up because I can see that there's some
strain on these front USB ports here as I'm trying to tilt this up and it's very
clear that this thing is just melted plastic riveted together I was pressing
this button right here and just like oh no it's not doing anything cuz I thought
the PCB was mounted behind it but the PCB is actually here so I had to press
the switch here wait so ours works so ours should work so that's the thing is
basically everything it needs internet we can play games theoretically we
should be able to pop a game in and it should be like yeah sure you can play it cuz you're just signed like you're not
signed in or whatever whoa whoa what did you just do did you do cheat codes kind
of you press you can do this on a retail Xbox as well but basically you lbrb ltrt
really quick and it brings up a developer settings tab normally what you
need to do to get more development stuff is there's an actual like Xbox developer
xdk app that you go and you install it's called like devkit or something right
and you look it up in the Play Store and you install it we can't do that for
obvious reasons but every Xbox can do this where you just bring up this little
extra hidden menu um and then you can
pop it into developer mode uh console restart after that but while you're here
you can get a bunch of stuff so it tells you what your sandbox ID is it gives you
like your console IP your tools IP uh kernel version OS version all that that
you can see yeah the main thing that we use the sandboxes for is for different
development environments when you're testing a game okay so for example
retail is just retail this is if we were in retail sandbox we would be pointing
to every other kit that's on the market right now it would be part of Xbox Live
and all that there's normally like three or four of these at least and everyone's
testing different stuff in each environment right so it could be in like
very early production where you're just testing can we even get this function to
work yeah then it's going to go to bug T
then it might go to optimization and that's what you're talking kind of yeah
so like all QA probably on like test and then once you're ready to go to uh
production like before you push out an update you test everything on basically
what's a copy of retail Flo plane calls it pre-prod sure yeah we call yeah but
exactly that's that's all it is your your different staging environment it
has to be staged in in multiple data centers Microsoft has to pay for that
bandwidth I mean we've seen events like major game launches where internet
traffic as a whole has gone I mean Microsoft can even do it
with a Windows update and nobody even wants to download those boom roasted
what it's usually looking for is when you've got it not connected to a whitelisted network right and we would
have ports at our desks that are like this is the port you connect everything
to touch nothing else this this is your like random PC Port that's for
everything else basically okay look at that internal storage development s SD
clear local Xbox 360 storage is that a thing on the regular Xbox has like
separate storage for Xbox 360 this is all probably standard one thing you can
get for free and just that's available
to the public is the regular xdk but
that only lets you make PC games or for PC game pass it doesn't let you do any
actual Xbox stuff that's all under NDA yeah I'm not going to check the network
don't you worry it probably wouldn't do anything here but yeah if we plugged in
I'm sure it would be like no this is not recognized as a whitelisted account or
whatever okay so throw in Mass Effect Mass Effect oh something went wrong wao
hold on a second these error codes are probably in like on Microsoft's website
insert first disc oh okay oh this is fine then is this the eject how do I
eject the little button on the side there I was trying to figure out oh
could we use the 10 gig to speed up this download maybe we should it's a disc
right Works going off a disc okay I'll just I'll just be patient don't please
go don't plug in the tanky I'm having so much fun right now so they're on
3542 uh so this is pretty old comparatively this probably showed up in
that developer studio in like early 2020
late 2019 possibly yeah oh date December
12th 2019 that's the last time it synced
those who know
no oh right it's fine we're not connected to anything I just I keep I
keep freaking out right okay if we don't enter the the password it's fine it's
irrational it's totally irrational this thing has no way of talking to a Microsoft server that we know you know
when's the last time you sat down in front of a computer that didn't have an internet connection and we're like I'm
going to use this computer and you realize you can do absolutely nothing on
a modern computer without an internet connection unless you're lucky and you've got steam already launched and
you click go offline or whatever play some Solita yeah pretty much they don't
even have space Canad anymore notepad yeah they like here's my cool Xbox I
can't use for anything thing people come
over you say hey you want to see my dev kit and you bring them to the room and
you're like there's the dev kit well look maybe if I was still single and I
really needed to impress the chicks sure yeah that's the that's the what got hey
you want to see my project Scarlet outside of a game development Studio I
believe we will be the first to game on a development kit the PS1 Dev kits were
like SGI machines like you would make
the game not even on a computer it was like on a on a workstation and then
import it to the PlayStation which making sure people know that that stuff
costs tens of thousands even the old consoles like Xbox gives these away kind
of to devkits right but or to developers but even as far back as like PS3s like I
said they're like $2,500 per kit and if you're with 60 dudes downstairs playing
just all day that's 60
Xboxes you know like fast that's a lot of money I've seen everyone set up stuff
wrong can't then you just don't even have the hassle of like oh I
accidentally plugged it into the wrong port and freaking wed it exactly great
so yeah he's not seen anything this is all spe I haven't seen anyone ever do
anything wrong at a game development Studio everything goes perfectly
smoothly yeah we're trying to keep you your your butt covered okay and we're
trying to keep the rest of them covered we got the stealth hoodie from LT store
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they're gone by the time this video goes up you know what I'll let you do the
honors of playing on a Dev for the first time no I'm he's not even excited about
it I want a game on it okay plof is back from Willow video
shout out will video those guys are awesome and the first one I'm going to try is dirt five all of these are either
launch titles or they are Xbox 360 titles with backwards compatibility
that's the same error isn't it this one is a different error code than what I
got before but it's a lot of like incompatibility or maybe due to a
network or service issue how much money did I just waste on Xbox games like 100
bucks it's not that bad what do you mean that's not that bad 100 bucks 100 bucks
okay here how can I have 100 bucks I mean I don't have cash on me you want me
to e trans you $100 exuses so there's one thing that we can
try oh this is kind of a wrench in the plans there is an offline a Good Wrench
maybe there's an offline system update hold on there's specific instructions on
how to do this full shut down yeah full shutdown okay this is is this something
you know from your development days or like is this just crazy no I just
started Googling if you could do an offline system update and like turns out
you can I don't expect this to work yeah right because this isn't even the same
Hardware yeah so but we might as well give it a shot wait 30 seconds and then
plug the main leads back in oh that's to like kill the power for that doesn't me
30 seconds here if we just try and start it let me just try to power it on oh
sure yeah that should like cycle any juice that's in there yeah you you got
it yeah go for it press and hold the pair button located on the left side of
the console is there even a pair button yeah that looks like the pair button and
the eject button located on the front of the console well the locations are not
going to help me sir I know this is a different console sir sir and then press
the Xbox button on the console so then okay go for you got those yeah okay okay
continue holding parent Jack for 10 to 15 it made a different noise this time
so I think it's doing it probably doesn't need any more oh hi troubleshoot cool so oh buddy so oh oh there it goes
oh only the d-pad works that's interesting it's probably just like a
really low like a safe mode kind of thing wa no step one download shut okay
wait downloading from the nothing's plugged in nothing's hooked up okay what
I was actually freaking out about was I thought it was like yes this will work
but if it hasn't downloaded the file it can't do a check sum yet so it might not
it might be thinking maybe it downloads freaking any file with that extension
and then it'll check it after but it's not connected to any network so like I
have no idea if this is going to work or not we made it 100% of the way through
verifying without it freaking out and saying no and it is supposed to restart
once or twice during the update I'm starting to oh I'm getting tingles I
can't believe you found this cuz yeah they would have to have a way to update it offline just in case people don't
have internet I mean yeah holy crap if this works Microsoft is definitely going
to make sure that this is fixed for the
next one well these aren't supposed to even get into our hands hold on just a
gosh darn second here check the firmware this does not look new holy crap it
updated it's only did yeah holy crap
that doesn't guarantee that these are going to work Mass Effect here we go
boys it could it could still need some kind of disc I still think it's going to
need some kind of network handshake and it's going to say no yeah something same
code okay wait hold on hold on we can still shut up we could still try we
could still try one of the earlier ones sure they oh yeah dice plug it in all
right you know what oh yeah the 10 gig one is debug and the other one says
retail so we should use the one gig Port network settings current Network status
wired oh checking service trying to do something it's trying to do something
it's not working to be very clear guys this is not going to like perform better
or anything it's just holy did f129
just do something it's trying to does it say ready to start it's updating now
hold on a sec something went wrong getting your game ready this might take
a minute or two hold holy crap I think this is doing stuff we are downloading
F1 2019 61 megabit per second ladies and gentlemen oh there it is no it's cons
from the Xbox network it's banned there it is we got the splash screen for Mass
Effect to come up and then it instantly went to ban who are you something went
wrong give it another try yeah it's it's we didn't have that tile it was
good desk flip back to Microsoft it goes
yeah there's a problem with your Xbox live profile yeah oh yeah that's
definitely it yeah it's worked nice okay $2,000 paper we let's
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