8K Xbox? I'm skeptical.
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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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1,394 words · ~6 min read
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roses are red tech news is blue
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wd lord that's an old reference e3 is
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all about the games but microsoft took some time to talk specs for its next gen
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xbox codenamed project scarlett
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so they did it at e3 with the candlestick right no not okay uh the
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console looks like it's going to finally incorporate some real pc like features
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on top of being four times as powerful
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as the current flagship xbox one x
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scarlett is going to offer up to 120 frames per second up to 8k resolution
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and apparently a custom SSD just like
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sony's next gen playstation of course that mention of 8k
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most likely just means that the box supports 8k output through its HDMI 2.1
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port but who knows maybe microsoft and sony
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traveled into the future a few years and brought back 8k gaming technology
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yeah it's possible what's also possible
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is that the console will get this big performance boost they're claiming
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thanks to its zen 2 based CPU and navi
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based GPU hardware which actually the latter will apparently have ray tracing
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support no word yet on pricing but the console is supposed to be out for the
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2020 holiday season you gotta love all the like baseless
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hype that these companies try to drum up for a next-gen machine it's like we
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haven't built one yet but like it's gonna be great it's gonna be so good
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it's basically kickstarter it's the best one we've ever made speaking the best
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things ever made one thing microsoft surprisingly didn't talk much about was
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that cloud gaming thing that they made the
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streaming service that they're going to be stepping into the ring with against
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google stadia and playstation now microsoft did mention that players could
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use their home xbox console as a personal streaming server but it isn't
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super clear what that is or how much internet
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bandwidth you would need to reliably access games from your own console
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remotely or from microsoft's servers
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either so this tracks well with rumors indicating that microsoft is taking a
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hybrid approach rather than completely relying on their own server blades in a
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data center somewhere now we might actually see some more changes to the
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service before it reportedly launches in october but project x cloud was
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originally supposed to rely on xbox one s hardware and now it appears that it
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should rely more on the next-gen scarlet consoles so
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i guess we'll be streaming 8k games over
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5g with ai
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in no time we'll be
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of course there were plenty of game announcements as well with one of them
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being halo infinite yes my friends
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microsoft continues its proud tradition of not knowing how to number things this
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is the infinite halo so this is going to be a launch title for the upcoming new
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xbox we're apparently getting yet another gears of war release as well and
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in what might be a slightly more exciting piece of news we finally got a
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release date for cyberpunk 2077
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april 16th 2070's just kidding 2020
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and it was revealed in a trailer that is going to be featuring featuring
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piano free tr freaking reeves keanu
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reeves although i don't think he ends up doing any like
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kung fu or anything uh other notable titles include elden
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ring which is a collaboration featuring game of thrones author george r.r martin
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because he doesn't want to just finish writing the books ever as well as our first look at gameplay
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from star wars jedi fallen order and in a surprising move there's a blair
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witch game coming out i didn't see this does anyone need to see this i mean what
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is it just like fear but with like shaky cam bad things
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are happening actually fear already had gm and fallout 76 is getting a battle
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royale mode called nuclear winter
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because apparently this game can survive the nuclear blast that was its horrible
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launch got him boom roasted now it's time for quick
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and 30 pages per minute so get your scan on asap by checking out the scan snap at
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the link below on to the wigity wax samsung has released their first monitor
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with g-sync which could be great news for team green fans as samsung has long
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been a popular choice in monitor land but until now has only used AMD's
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freesync the crg5 features a curved 1080p va panel
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so it's not that fanciest thing out there but you do get a 240hz refresh
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rate so you can pick one up right now if your current monitor just isn't cutting
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it you know cutting like screen tearing
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it's a display technology joke
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gamer fuel isn't exactly a new way for beverage companies to take your money
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but now razer is apparently throwing their offering into a nalgene bottle
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near you with its own drink mix called respawn reportedly there won't be any
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taurine in the drink to help avoid crashes during long gaming sessions and
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razer is even offering an official bottle if you really want to show your
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brand loyalty hopefully it won't
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fall apart if you shake it too vigorously there's a new version of the xbox elite
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controller with more customizable features for the gamer who finds that a
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bog standard controller just won't cut it you can adjust the tension on the
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sticks now as well as the travel distance on the trigger for quicker
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firing in FPS titles it also comes with more thumb sticks and paddles and can
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save up to three count em xbox
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360 one three different profiles that's how they
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count although the new project scarlet xbox
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isn't due out for another year and a half you can pick up the elite controller 2 starting on november 4th
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just in time to sit around and game and get fat during the holidays
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speaking of getting fat you might not be able to fit onto a boeing 737 max but
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that might not matter if what's happening at american airlines is at all
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reflective of the larger situation the company has apparently pushed back the
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plane's reintroduction until at least september although boeing has fixed the
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computer issues that led to a pair of crashes allegedly testing isn't quite
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complete yet so you might have to settle for overpriced drinks on an ever so
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slightly older and less crash-prone plane instead
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finally your gmail inbox will be getting a handy new feature pretty soon google
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is rolling out what it calls dynamic emails where you'll be able to take care
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of tasks like dealing with comments on a google doc or filling out a form
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seamlessly without ever leaving your email window the experience is powered
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by amp the same tech that allows mobile pages to load faster although this new
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gmail feature is only available on desktop for now so check it out on july
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2nd if you're absolutely obsessed with saving a few seconds on annoying work
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emails well that's it for our show tune back in on wednesday if you need a
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distraction from those annoying work emails that you just
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saved some time on hey right am i right
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oh oh buy some merch hey the stealth hoodie lttstore.com the
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CPU shirt lttstore.com it's all at lttstore.com it's a CPU see i wish i had
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that it's like you have one don't you uh yeah wait
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you don't even i wish i was wearing it right now