Xbox One X could be its own worst enemy in the console war to come

By Dom Reseigh-Lincoln

So, now we finally know. Project Scorpio is Xbox One X – the upgraded, 4K-ready home console that’s been tricked out to the nines. It’s the most powerful console ever – both in reality and PR speak – but from what we’ve seen the curse of the Xbox One brand could clip the wings of this mutated beast before it even takes to the skies.

On paper, Xbox One X is pure gold. Six whole teraflops of graphical power (that’s a big jump up from PS4 Pro‘s 4.2 teraflops). It’s running a custom GPU engine that runs at 1172MHz (another massive increase over Xbox One’s 853MHz and PS4 Pro’s 911MHz). It will run games at ‘true 4K’ and will support 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray. It’s a monster, plain and simple.

And it could well fail, because it’s called ‘Xbox One X’.

X marks the spot

Ever since that disastrous pre-E3 reveal in 2013, Microsoft has been fighting self-lit PR fires.

Gaffs, contradictions and the bottled lightning success of PS4 has forced a still powerful console and a global brand into a very obvious second place. It’s a role reversal from the tussle of PS3 and Xbox 360 last generation, and that gap …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming