Xbox Series S [XBSS] (Lockhart) General Rumors and Speculation *spawn*

Well if Lockhart is the 1080P version that is kind of like the PC you may already have so they may need to bring the price down to draw folks who are only a new GPU card away from Lockhart-type performance.

 

There have been so many deals on OneX bundles where it almost seems like the normal price is $299, so the XSAD should be $200 or less. I wouldn't have thought they'd have so many OneX still around.

There have been a few rumors around Lockhart and performance increases, but I couldn't see then extending so far to hit 6TF RDNA2 without a new soc being made.

 

Same cpu speed , same I/O performance , slightly less ram but all one speed and half the tflops. Priced at $200 or $250 then it could sell very well vs a $400 xbox series x

 

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I heard 5-6tflops . I am assuming MS will want to get as close to 6tflops as possible to make the difference between the ps5 and lock heart closer. I was told it depends on clocks as lock heart is behind scarlet. I also heart lockheart is early next year , maybe march to april time frame. They are also targeting half the price of xsx
one goal I heard is they want it to run all games better than xbox one x to make it a clear upgrade path over the older systems

 

Eh.... you'd want bandwidth to scale up assuming any of what you bad people are talking about is happening. The thing needs to be as low cost as possible.

 

Putting it another way, if MS can make a console close to PS5's 'power'* for far less money, they totally win the Hardware Engineering Championship!

* What's rendered on screen, irrespective of paper numbers.

 

336GB/s not enough bandwidth for a 6tflop apu ?

 

Well, I don't know anything about the thing, but I was assuming they originally designed the APU for 4TF and had a bandwidth that corresponded to that lower cost design. Changing the design from there is a little more difficult short of increasing the speed of the RAM, which again increases costs.

 

I don't think 4TF was ever the target , I always heard a higher performance rating. But I could be wrong

 

Do you mean they want half the xsx price?

Xsx price $299 or even less??

 

Many have heard Retail Price(Lockhart) <= 0.5 * Retail Price(Series X)

 

Don't expect Lockhart to be anything other than cheap.

 

What I have heard DD , small form factor , better than xox performance , feature parity with xbox series x. Buy accessories once and use them on either system.

Last I heard it be half the price of the XSX and last i heard MS were prepared for a $400 XSX. I am not sure what the final price will be. I think if sony is $500/$600 MS may try to go in at $200/$400/$500 but we will see

 

Ahhh. Unlikely. Chip might be cheap but storage and memory are costly. I have major doubts they can hit either of those price points without a subsidy

 

I don't think 400 for XSX is possible without MS taking a loss. And if this lesser console is going to be half the price, thus 200, then MS possibly will take an even bigger hit for that lesser console vs XSX because I don't think you can't make a console with half the BOM of XSX with simply downgrading the SOC. You need to remove a lot more stuff to make it half of XSX cost. The only thing I can think of if MS indeed want to price it half of XSX is that they actually sell the XSX at a higher price. For example, they sell XSX with a bit of premium at 600 and sell this lesser console at 300. Either that or MS is willing to sell at a loss for both consoles

 

Only things that appear to be able to be downgraded is the APU and probably the disk drive, and probably a lower tower. Flash, DDR can't exactly be compromised, so I don't expect it to be more than $150 lower than the series X.