Why not put your software and the chips in the consoles to the test

Daniel Pavolik · Jan 27, 2025

In my personal opinion I have been a gamer for almost 40 years and I have seen a lot of console Cycles come and go throughout the years of gaming and I was just wondering why you guys would not put your consoles to the full test because I believed it the technology that you guys have out there now that if you were to try to upgrade and see how far you could take this technology I really do think that this technology still has room for improvement to match up with the games that are out there because I really do think that the graphical detail is awesome but I would be blown away if it would be tested further to see how far it can be taken to match up with the actual graphical detail that is put into these games by your game development companies that you guys buy and stuff like that I would love to see how far it can be taken personally I would invest in upgrades if that was the case that you guys could take it further

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SwordofWhedon

I'm sorry video games have many different requirements and graphics are typically the last thing that Her attended to. You need to make every other aspect of the game work properly and smoothly before you start ramping up bells and whistles

For example if you want graphical fidelity, you want your games to run a 30 FPS, 10 times faster than any human being so that you can have the maximum amount of additional detail.

people who make these ultra graphics modifications don't have to worry about shipping a product that works, because they're just taking beauty shots, or they have hardware that represents 0.1% of users that would not have been optimized for. I guarantee you no one is prioritizing optimizing for the $2000 5090 later this year for example.

If these things are important to you, then a mass market consumer devices like a game console is the wrong place to look. I recommend you get at least $3000 together and buy a PC, four or five would be better

FoomBerry

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Why are people so keen to beta test software that could kill their console?

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Microsoft usually includes a complementary repair should your console get messed up by such tests.

A Last Champion

Why are people so keen to beta test software that could kill their console?

RustyBucket21

IceStorm,

I'm sorry but the chips within the hardware ARE programmed and in the current XBone they are programmed for the original idea that MS had.

I never mentioned "Backward Compatibility". MS are having to use updates to overcome the original programming within the Chips that are in the XBone, thus "Similar to emulation software".

One more update and it could put the XBone back to what MS originally intended it to be. That's why I will wait a year or so before buying one. I want to see what direction they take.

SigmaTheDJ

It sounds like it's enrolled in the insider program, where you get to test early, unfinished builds of the system software. You will get way more updates if your console is enrolled in that.

If it is that, you can opt out. When you opt out, a ~4GB update will be rolled out to your console that puts it on the current public version of the system software, then you'll go back to getting an update approximately once a month.

Why not put your software and the chips in the consoles to the test