Do you own an Xbox One X? Do you believe in its power to bring 4K gaming on consoles to the masses? Maybe, maybe not but if NPD Group data (cited by Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg) is anything to go by, the Xbox One X is doing pretty well in the United States. The obvious question now is whether it will help push the initiative for 4K or not.

GamingBolt posed this question to Crytek’s CryEngine product manager Collin Bishop, asking whether the Xbox One X will expedite 4K support especially since it launched just recently (compared to the PS4 Pro which has been out for more than a year now).

“Competition is always favored inside of any market. Considering the focus and push from Microsoft, it can only be assumed that their competitors will follow suit. The titles each console promotes are also quite similar in terms of performance requirements and the graphical fidelity. In the end the customers will drive the tech through the sales.”

As far as raw hardware prowess goes, Crytek also feels the Xbox One X to be a “worthy hardware upgrade” over the Xbox One. “The Xbox One X is certainly a worthy hardware upgrade. Its built-in 4k support allows us to achieve even more breathtaking visuals.  Those that do not have a 4k display available to them still benefit from supersampling and the additional CPU/RAM power allowing to process more objects in the world.”

With 4K TV prices falling, the Xbox One X presents a fairly interesting deal at $499. Of course now it’s up to Microsoft to produce the games to match it, something which the PS4 has had an advantage with for a while now. What are your thoughts on the same? Let us know below.

6 TFLOP Performance

When it was first teased as Project Scorpio, Microsoft made one thing clear – the Xbox One X is the world’s most powerful console. Boasting 6 Teraflops of performance, it’s power is enough to run games like Forza Motorsport 7 at 60 FPS and 4K resolution. And that’s with some processing muscle to spare. Make no mistake – if you want power in the console space, the Xbox One X has it.

Though it was earlier revealed that EA Sports’ Madden NFL 18 would require a future update to run at 4K with HDR on the PS4 Pro, that too without any details about when said update would arrive, the company has since clarified that this isn’t the case.

Issuing a statement to GameSpot, EA Sports noted that both 4K and 1080p resolutions would be possible on the PS4 Pro without any update being required. The game will also run at 60 FPS though HDR support is still up in the air.

EA Sports also made sure to clarify that running the game at 1080p would result in an improved framerate in “certain areas” but that core gameplay would remain 60 FPS regardless of the resolution. As for HDR, it remains to be seen whether this will be confirmed when the Xbox One X arrives in November.

Madden NFL 18 is out on August 25th for PS4 and Xbox One with EA Access subscribers able to access it on August 17th.

Microsoft’s recently revealed Xbox One X is still a ways off, both in release and with some key features. Mike Ybarra, corporate VP at Xbox, talked a bit on Twitter about what remains to be done before the console’s release.

He first confirmed that the Software Development Kit for the Xbox One X is still being worked on. If you love – or hate – the current UI for Xbox One, then you’ll be happy or angry to hear that it’s the same for the Xbox One X. Then again, there could be a new update to change the user interface before the console launches.

And despite the console’s native 4K tagline, players will only be able to stream on Xbox One X in 1080p/720p resolution at 60 frames per second. The reason for this is simple – streaming 4K simply requires too much bandwidth. Capturing 4K videos at 60 FPS is still possible though.

The Xbox one X releases on November 7th worldwide. What are your thoughts on the console’s feature set right now? Let us know in the comments.

Fancy watching the Xbox One X come together, one shiny piece at a time? During Xbox Daily on June 13th, Microsoft’s Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb sat down with Xbox hardware GM Leo Del Castillo to just that. Check out the video here and learn a bit more about the console’s interesting physical structure.

The Xbox One X was named and properly revealed during Microsoft’s E3 presser. Along with an Ultra HD Blu-ray player, three USB 3.0 ports, 12 GB DDR5 RAM and a 6 Teraflop GPU, it also sports liquid cooling to keep things running smoothly. It’s the smallest Xbox console by far which is impressive in its own right.

Releasing on November 7th worldwide, the Xbox One X will retail for $499 in North America, £449 in the UK and €499 in Europe. An impressive array of new titles like Forza Motorsport 7 and Crackdown 3 will support the hardware, running at 4K resolution and supporting HDR. What are your thoughts on the console thus far? Let us know in the comments.

Some rather interesting interviews have been emerging from Xbox boss Phil Spencer as of late. Along with encouraging Sony to partake in cross-platform play with Minecraft and criticizing third party deals for exclusive content, Spencer talked to Metro UK about the merits of 60 FPS for games.

The basic impetus was on emphasizing 60 FPS for Xbox One X games because it affects gameplay and how the difference between 1080p and 4K resolutions aren’t noticeable by most. When told that people notice the frame rate going below “what it needs to be” and how something is wrong, Spencer said that, “Some people do. Some people just want to have fun playing Lego Batman.”

He later followed up by saying, “This console [Xbox One X ] will make it more possible for developers to drive the resolution and frame rate consistency than any other console on the market.”

When it was stated that having 60 FPS mandated as a standard would be great, Spencer said, “I will tell you, as someone that’s run a platform now for a while, mandating gameplay decisions is a bad place for a platform holder to go in.

“Developers are completely incentivised to give you the best experience they can. We can both agree on that. So if they think it’s 60fps and that’s gonna help them, in terms of selling more copies of the game, they’re gonna be all in. Not everybody understands what 60fps vs. 30fps means. They’re not all as technical as you are.”

What are your thoughts on all of this? Let us know in the comments whether you’d prefer 4K resolution on Xbox One X games or more of a focus on 60 FPS at 1080p.

After Microsoft unveiled the Xbox One X (formerly Project Scorpio) and showcased several of games running on the console, it began introducing us to various labels that games would carry. Xbox Wire actually details the labels, which include “4K Ultra HD”, “HDR” and “Xbox One X Enhanced”.

The “4K Ultra HD” label is interesting because, as pointed out by nynt9 on NeoGAF, it doesn’t just encompass native 4K resolutions but games that use checkerboard rendering (the same technique as the PS4 Pro) and dynamic resolutions.

Though it’s a given that not every game will be able to run at native 4K and hit 60 FPS (like, say, Destiny 2), it’s still worth noting that checkerboarding and dynamic resolutions are a thing on Xbox One X titles.

Interestingly, the “Xbox One X Enhanced” label means that, “A developer has done special work to take advantage of Xbox One X’s 6 teraflops of power. Specific enhanced features will vary by game.” We suppose this refers to features like supersampling, anisotropic filtering and so on.

What are your thoughts on the Xbox One X, which releases on November 7th? Let us know in the comments below.

A new update will be coming to the PlayStation 4 Pro on March 28th. The Media Player will be able to support 4K video playback though you need a 4K TV to really appreciate it.

After downloading the update, 4K videos can be viewed in MP4, whether it’s on a USB drive or through the home server, via the Media Player app.

VR video content in 4K will also be supported and as per Sony, “PS VR’s display resolution is 1920 x RGB x 1080, therefore 4K VR videos will be displayed in a higher image quality compared to HD VR videos.” PS4 Pro owners will also be able to capture 360 degree 4K footage, thus allowing for you to relive the very scene that you shot.

What are your thoughts on the upcoming update? Let us know in the comments below and stay tuned for more information on the update’s size when it goes live tomorrow.

With more and more developers looking to hop aboard the 4K train, especially with the release of Sony’s PS4 Pro, there’s been plenty of talk about the limits of the console in achieving a 4K standard. GamingBolt spoke to Tarsier Studios’ Dave Mervik, who’s currently working on Little Nightmares for PS4, Xbox One and PC. Sony increased memory bandwidth on the PS4 Pro but maintained largely the same overall RAM as the base PS4 (except a certain amount being freed up for devs). Could this become a bottleneck down the line for 4K development?

Mervik noted that, “The bandwidth is a potential issue, especially when running 4k, but it’s probably a thought-through tradeoff that they found necessary to make.” That trade-off is especially apparent when the PS4 Pro has double the GPU power of the PS4. “The extra GPU power is necessary for running games at 30 fps or higher in 4k. That’s probably the goal that Sony had in mind for the games released for the Pro,” Tarsier told us.

Given that most games don’t run at native 4K on the PS4 Pro and developers using custom techniques such as checkerboard 4K rendering, it’s safe to assume that the Pro was Sony’s first big push towards 4K gaming. Next year, the Xbox Scorpio will (most likely) be the only console that will push the medium towards native 4K in AAA modern games, Microsoft claims.

But what are your thoughts on the PS4 Pro and its success in improving visuals for games? Let us know below.

AMD has been slowly showing off quite a bit of new technology over the past few weeks. The computer company is trying its best to keep up with the changing needs of today’s technology and in order to do that they showed off the new Zen CPU at this year’s Game Awards.

DSO Gaming is reporting the company showed off how its new Vega GPU is going to make games like Doom run nice and smoothly in 4K as well as other formats. Unfortunately, the presentation showing this performance was behind closed doors and while there was a video of the presentation at one point, it has since been taken down.

The website says this high-end GPU is the AMD Radeon RX490 and it will be in direct competition with NVIDIA’s GTX1080. For now, it appears we have to take others word for it, but hopefully they’ll officially debut this tech soon.