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Huh? It's literally an article just talking about how big it looks in unboxing videos.

This is false:
Microsoft made a big deal earlier this week about the new Series S being the smallest Xbox console ever, and like...every Xbox before it has been huge, so that’s a very low bar to clear.

Not huge: 360 (especially compared to PS3), 360 S (fit inside 360 shell), Xbox One S (definitely also not huge), and honestly One X is amazingly not too big.

Then it closes with:
I hope anyone looking at getting one of these in November has a very large entertainment unit. Or plenty of floor space around their entertainment unit.

Like, that's basically their whole article, minus some reactions to unboxing pics. Sorry, you think this is proper journalism? I just don't. I'm definitely not as riled up as some here, but seriously, they just suck at what they do!

It is just about the size. The writer literally said they love the tech itself. Don't read too much into what amounts to a "just for fun" article that talks about how big it is. It is big and unusually dimentioned for a console.

There are plenty of vlogs and stuff about how small the Series S is too. It's likely just because it made an impression one way or another. I don't doubt the weirdness of the PS 5's look will be mentioned once these guys get their hands on one.

EDIT: As for "journalism"- It's a hobby, and sometimes people write about things that they find interesting. It's a harmless, fluff article.
 
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1440p native -----> scale-----> 4K. It's not that hard!

1440p = 2X 1080p! Good scaling will look pretty closet to native 4K. If they do ML upscale, will be visually indistinguishable for most people. That's the whole point of the new Nvidia cards.
 
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Yeah, I get it, the Series X is a big console, but really only in 1 dimension, not so much in actual volume. I have a spot for it. I'm just not sure I have one for PS5. That's the irony of these kinds of articles, I guess.

I don't disagree. The PS 5 is friggin' huge. It will be interesting to see what they say when Sony sends them their PR copies. MS is pretty smart to be sending out these shell casings to generate buzz, imo.

Damn, and I thought the XBone was huge... PS5 will be 500 dollars, I bet.
 
Did Kotaku or other gaming media make articles about it?

Edit: I was replying specifically about that article from Kotaku, which I had just posted before. Yes, I noticed people on this forum noticing PS5 is gigantic. I guess Kotaku hasn't noticed yet.

I don't know about specifically Kotaku but yes there are many articles about the size of the PS5

And Froz is right. The article really isn't negative.
 
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People have been playing native 1440p games on PS4 Pro for years now, and all of the sudden it won't work for 4K sets on Xbox Series S.

Yes, checkerboard is a type of upscale from SPECIFICALLY 1440p. ML upscale would run circles around checkerboard if they do have it.
 
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Three times weaker doesn't=games running half the res as the XSX.
But they are advertising it as such.
The only way this works if is the XSX version is held back.
1080P it's better suited for and I have I have no problem with that as it would allow XSX to do it's thing.

I suspect we will see 1080p a lot, honestly. And that's fine, as they are saying that already.
 
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Because it still looks a lot better than 1080p when upscaled to 4k.
No s***. But who with 4K TV is buying the XSS...and still doesn't change the fact that nobody uses 1440P. Pushing twice the pixels for a native res nobody uses to cater to a 4K crowed who have a native 4K sku.

Hilarious.
 
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Well, most people are still playing at 1080p, including even Steam users. And most TV's today are 1080p, so I can see the XSS appealing to the majority of casuals out there.

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Thing is, they say targeting 1440P but who uses that? Console gamers don't, and very few PC users use it. This thing will be 1080P.

Huh? Stay in your lane. 1440p is one of THE most popular resolutions on PC.

And a lot of enhanced console titles run at 1440p.
 
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The problem with this...is that neither of them have any experience with development on the XSS or XSX. This is all conjecture.

I honestly think this is being overplayed.

They are people who would be far more informed than indie devs who keep being quoted online that haven't touched a dev kit for either machine. These guys work at large companies who actually have the hardware in house.
 
Thing is, they say targeting 1440P but who uses that? Console gamers don't, and very few PC users use it. This thing will be 1080P.

Yeah I'm sure 1080p will be the target for most devs, if this is supposed to be for people who don't care about 4K or don't have a 4K tv than what's the point? not that many people play console games on a monitor.
 
No s***. But who with 4K TV is buying the XSS...and still doesn't change the fact that nobody uses 1440P. Pushing twice the pixels for a native res nobody uses to cater to a 4K crowed who have a native 4K sku.

Hilarious.

If 1440p is twice 1080 res, maybe devs could offer 1440/30 games 1080/60 option.
 
No s***. But who with 4K TV is buying the XSS...and still doesn't change the fact that nobody uses 1440P. Pushing twice the pixels for a native res nobody uses to cater to a 4K crowed who have a native 4K sku.

Hilarious.
When your wallet tells you slow the f*ck down, you will know who.
 
People have been playing native 1440p games on PS4 Pro for years now, and all of the sudden it won't work for 4K sets on Xbox Series S.

Yes, checkerboard is a type of upscale from SPECIFICALLY 1440p. ML upscale would run circles around checkerboard if they do have it.

If you want games to continue to look how they do now sure but they'll be pushing the graphics harder than current consoles do. The Pro also came out 4 years ago.
 
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It is a little strange. I have seen ray tracing mentioned a few times as a reason, but on PC they use rigs with 8 to 16GB ram. Hardly a boggling amount.
Well RT is something I do agree with you. I want to see how is that played.

However MS did buikt both together and I am sure they thought all of this.
 
If you want games to continue to look how they do now sure but they'll be pushing the graphics harder than current consoles do. The Pro also came out 4 years ago.
The pro came out 4 years later, yes, not at the same time like Xbox did when they built the system in mind.

They didn't just made one and brought the other afterwards.
 
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