Inside the next Xbox: Project Scorpio tech revealed

Post by markdog12 » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 6:26 PM UTC

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This must be highly subjective, because for me, 65" 4k tv 10' away is like night and day to me compared to 1080p

There's no difference side-by-side between 1080p and 4K resolution if you're 5ft or further away from the TV[1], all else being equal. However, all else is rarely equal, and 4K TVs now have lots of other features and technology that make them just better (prettier) buys in general. [1] http://s3.carltonbale.com/resolution_chart.html

Post by khedoros1 » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 6:29 PM UTC

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A big part of it is the type of graphics card. FirePro (the kind in workstations) are much more expensive than normal general purpose graphics cards, which are again more expensive than custom SoCs which can be developed barebones for a specific use. Reason being that a calculation error that results in a dead pixel is fine when you are playing a video game. It'll be there for 1/60s and then be gone, never seen again…

> Reason being that a calculation error that results in a dead pixel is fine when you are playing a video game. It'll be there for 1/60s and then be gone, never seen again. The same error in a disney film or a 3d scene rendered for a poster needs to be pixel perfect, so workstation class cards have a much lower threshhold for error, and cost accordingly. I've heard this a lot, and I don't doubt that it's correct, but…

Post by supernovae » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 6:32 PM UTC

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zaroth wrote: post #51

What they really need to do is maybe just start completely over on the whole Xbox Dashboard. For something that could be so simple and easy, the whole experience of trying to use the Xbox for anything other than playing a game is insanely frustrating. Every time I sit down to try to use it I'm just tearing my hair out! It's been, what, over a decade they've been working on that Dashboard and it has always been just a…

100%. The UI is insanely difficult to use. I frequently find myself wondering how to do the most basic tasks. If it weren't for Halo, I'd be gone a long time ago.

Post by rbanffy » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 6:33 PM UTC

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> Actually it feels like the trend you are starting to see is that AAA studios can't even keep up (aka Mass Effect Andromeda, and other recent high profile releases). The graphics burden just seems too high that everything else suffers. The problem with Andromeda was animations, not AAA graphical fidelity. I don't think many people are unhappy with the current level of flashy effects, we're mostly just looking at hig…

Animations are a big part of graphical fidelity. Games with lower-detail character models relied more on your mind to fill in the details as characters spoke or made facial expressions (I still remember an incredible scene in 2001's Anachronox where a character slowly smiles, conveyed with the motion of three vertices), but when you have a near-photorealistic rendering of a human face, the animation has to be up to s…

Post by vgchh » Thu, Apr 06, 2017, 6:37 PM UTC

zaroth wrote: post #51

What they really need to do is maybe just start completely over on the whole Xbox Dashboard. For something that could be so simple and easy, the whole experience of trying to use the Xbox for anything other than playing a game is insanely frustrating. Every time I sit down to try to use it I'm just tearing my hair out! It's been, what, over a decade they've been working on that Dashboard and it has always been just a…