No Man's Sky Developer Explains Why The Xbox One X Is Still 'Very Capable' In 2024

I actually find this very commendable for developers. I understand not everybody has the resources to do so but it is appreciated none the less.

Still have my OneX hooked up and is my goto Xbox console.

I have no doubt that the XB1X is still a very capable console and can still offer a great gaming experience in 2024. With Game Pass Cloud, its possible to play some next-gen only released games too but even if it has the capability of running it natively, if it can't run on a XB1S, it won't be released for XB1X - so is still 'limited' by its weaker sibling.

I have mine hooked up in the bedroom these days...

Despite its capability, the Xbox One X got held back by the Xbox One S, in much the same way ws the Series X is limited by requiring Series S compatibility

Loved my one x but ultimately it is still limited by the cpu and not having an SSD.

But I do maintain that in this generation of ugly consoles the X1X is a total looker and I miss it just for that.

Says the pro-playstation developer.

I still use my One X as secondary console in the bedroom. It’s still a good machine these days.

I adore my One X and there are a few things that the Series S does worse.

Huh, so all that whining about the Series S is complete BS then... got it.

I wish the series x looked like this. Even the OG big Xbox One still looks good IMO.

@Medic_alert My thoughts exactly. One X is still one of the best looking outer shells I’ve ever laid eyes on. Series X is alright, and S would be nice if it didn’t have that cheap speaker looking circular cooling vent. As for PS5, someone needs to write a modern day Greek tragedy wherein someone gouges their own eyes out after seeing it à la Oedipus. But the One X? Mwa chef’s kiss

@Balaam_ I enjoyed the drama of that reply alot, so kudos to you.

I have just got the PS5 Pro and while it is much better than the og one in size and shape, I can't help but look at it sitting horizontally in my media centre and think it looks like some sort of warped out of shape cable/sky box.

IMO the 1X/4 Pro should have had at least a 5 year shelf life or more before the Series/5 came out. They were more than capable for a long time and got cut short, meanwhile the Series/5 came out with barely any real leap above those and feel like a half measure.

@themightyant "One X was always a beast bit of hardware, ahead of it's time. But it fell into an odd space where the enthusiast market would be upgrading from it in 3 years or less, and it arrived when people were talking next-gen, which limited it's market. There also weren't that many games to highlight it's power. "

That's the exact trap PS5 Pro set for itself, which is exactly why MS didn't want to do that again.

@themightyant IDK that were in a very different spot with 5 pro. Ps6 rumors are occasional meaning they'll ramp up more and more, Xbox will certainly be putting the next Gen narrative up sooner than later, real or imagined, I don't think it's in that different a place than the 1x. I feel like Ms consciously avoided that trap specifically to be able to look at next Gen sooner and reboot. Obviously they're in a different place but for core that's looking at things enough to know about "next Gen rumors" they'll know, both companies will be making overtures about the next Gen etc.

Not sure that Sony got that much more out of 4 pro. They had the extra year but most of the sales were in the launch and really stalled out after that and then they discontinued it in 2019/early 2020.

I have both the 4 pro and the 1x, and I feel like the 1x almost felt like it should have been the new generation on its own. The pricing and the capability felt like more of a generational leap than the 1x to seriesx imo. The 4 pro mostly has the advantage that it was an upgrade that didn't actually cost much more. And I kind of feel like if you're doing mid Gen, that's the way to do it. Not a 1x/5 pro situation where is like a half step new generation for a whole step in price.

The X1X is a very capable machine but is held back my the original X1. Between the Series S and the Xbox one X, the Series S wins every time with the only advantage that the X1X is that X1X has a 4k drive drive. And the X1X is ridiculously heavy for its size.

@themightyant Tech may have slowed down but I don't buy this line that a lot of tech companies have been putting out there (Nvidia...) that we're basically at the end of tech so every advancement in tech just gets more and more and more expensive forever, where instead of a $1500 computer just getting faster and faster every few years, a $1500 PC is always the exact same spec for the next 10,000 years, and each faster one will add another $500 to the price for each increment forever. Nvidia's tried to push that narrative. I don't buy it. If we're really at the end of tech, and price to dollar baseline is now fixed forever and the only direction is to add ever more for ever higher prices until we start reaching government contractor pricing for the masses, I think that's a different way of saying the tech economy is now permanently over, the tech industry will collapse, and it's now all a big old datacenter mainframe circle jerk forever. And I'm not buying that.

That said we're also at a weird point where we have these akward products where for every practical measure shouldn't exist but they keep ending up in this "there's a market for it" place, which is awkward. That includes the absurdly priced video cards (I'm excluding xx90 because that's a different situation where, while there's a gaming market for it, a big chunk of its sales is actually commercial/video editing/streamer sales where it's a far cheaper alternative than the actual commercial parts, so some of its success lies, unfortunately, in it being a budget part for a commercial market.)

I do think the greatest threat to the console market is the console market. This idea of escalating prices - paying more and more isn't how the console market has operated or what has really built its market. Being an affordable packaged box for all is what drove the console market, and the direction prices are implied to go for successive generations, I can see console pushing out much of its own market chasing some holy grail (or at least pushing it to Nintendo), If tech really has stalled without just paying more and more, I can see all but the core market losing interest in consoles, especially each younger generation for the long term, and then I can see other avenues appealing to the core.

PS5 Pro is an...interesting experiment because one of the biggest things they've marketed it for is for how great it plays your OLD games. And so much of the coverage is about what it does for old games. And where the console business relies on razor and blades sales, where software sales is the goal, that seems like a really poor way to introduce hardware.

I also do think (and I think this is what MS wanted to avoid) the whole mid-gen cycle may seem good, at initial sales, but what they're mainly doing is re-selling to the same early adopters and then filling the used market with inventory cannibalizing new normal sales and ironically reducing price expectations over time. I suspect that will have an effect on launch sales for the next generation model too where, again it'll primarily sell only to the early adopters.

OTOH, I also think I no longer understand Sony's new market, because it seems to be an Apple-esque fomo cult of uninformed buyers with zero impulse control, who will spend anything on hardware and nothing on software.

@Medic_alert A big plus of the One X is you can upgrade the HDD to an SSD. I put a 2TB SSD in mine. Unlike the Series consoles which can only use propriety storage which is drastically over priced.
There are videos on YouTube to help with upgrading storage if you're interested.

Just don't talk about series s lol.

@defiant1376 the problem with that is the upgrades are only marginal due to there bottlenecks in the system.

@JokerBoy322 Series S and the parity policy is what stopped me investing in the series generation. I bought the PS5 this generation. And I have zero regrets. In fact, Black myth still hasn't released on Xbox and that alone reinforces that I made the right decision. And on top the choice to get into VR.
One S did not hold the one x back.