You can set it up horizontal.

It goes both ways.

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/1...ertical-design

That's where I'm at.

Probably buy a launch Series X and PS5 down the road once the exclusive catalog builds up.

Rumor is the former may play PC games in Windows mode.

If gamepass carries over, the Xbox is a great deal.

I bet it will.

I just bought 24 months of XBL and did the 1 month trial thing.

You still VR'ing it up Beauford?

just like me! oh wait

i have an oculus

The SSD in this is ****ing bonkers....makes it worth buying alone.

That and the 3D Audio implementation, can't wait...

I’m only buying one system and it’ll be a PS5. I don’t give a shit about specs and flops. Sony’s exclusives are so much better than the Microsoft catalog and it’s supposed to be cheaper than the Xbox. Sweet! The next God of War will be insane.

I’m a little surprised no one seems to care about the audio deal. There’s huge room for improvement there. I’m really looking forward to the new virtual surround sound headphones.

M$ strongly hinting they’ll be price competitive.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/14/...ncer-interview

It’s not the size, it’s the throughput (that’s what she said).

Storage is where the Xbox Series X and PS5 differ radically. Sony has created an impressive proprietary SSD solution that provides 825GB of storage and 5.5GB/s of performance. The Xbox Series X includes a custom 1TB NVME SSD, but its raw throughput is less than half at 2.4GB/s. That could mean load times differ massively between the PS5 and Xbox Series X, depending on what game developers optimize for.

Sony is also allowing PS5 owners to expand storage with regular NVMe PC drives, but there’s a slight caveat. We’re still waiting to see PCIe 4.0-based drives that will match the bandwidth of what Sony has implemented in the PS5, and compatibility could be complex given that Sony will need to validate that drives will be fast enough and compatible with the PS5.

Sony’s expansion does mean that PS5 owners should be able to pick up a fast PCIe 4.0 NVMe drive and increase the storage of the console with relative ease. Microsoft is using a proprietary expansion card format for the Xbox Series X, and it has partnered with Seagate to produce 1TB expansion cards for launch. We still don’t know the price of these proprietary cards, nor how much fast PCIe 4.0 NVMe drives will cost later this year.

Verge.com

Didn't Sony get absolutely blasted for using proprietary memory for one of their systems? I remember people were furious about it. It doesn't seem like there's been a negative reaction to the Microsoft solution yet, but I guess they also haven't announced prices.

That would be fantastic. I want Xbox to be as competitive as possible because both companies are at their best when they feel the pressure. Sony got arrogant for the PS3 launch and got hammered in sales for it.

But what about the games? Have you heard anything about new IP coming out of Microsoft studios? Halo, Gears, and Forza don't appeal to me at all.