Xbox Series X: A smaller and more powerful model in preparation at Microsoft?

News hardware Xbox Series X: A smaller and more powerful model in preparation at Microsoft?

Published on 04/11/2022 at 21:58

On one side or the other, every manufacturer in the shadows is tackling the following announcements that will catch the attention of video game lovers. We know that Sony is working on major studio acquisitions in addition to the PlayStation Plus redesign rollout. At Microsoft, rumors about the gang are calling for a family subscription to the Game Pass, but not just according to new rumors aimed at the US giant’s console range.

A more compact and powerful Xbox Series X?

It’s now been a little over a year and a half since the next-generation consoles — which are gradually becoming the ” current-gen – came out. And inevitably, as for the generation formed by the PS4 and the Xbox Onethe rumors do not drag to recall a new model, more powerful. In successive waves, information reaches us from Sonybut few when it comes to Microsoft.

However, Brad Sams, a technology journalist, started spreading the rumor about a more compact and powerful version of the chip coming into the Xbox Series Xmaking it less energy intensive. According to him, Microsoft is already working on this famous silicon chip from the Xbox Series X : the work of the Redmond firm would also be at a fairly advanced stage † Despite his “claims”, the journalist tries to moderate the general enthusiasm by pointing out that this review could be more banal than it seems.

An answer to the rumors about the PS5 Pro?

According to the journalist the chip overhaul is unlikely to result in improved home console performance in games† There would be more efficiency, but the chassis and design would remain unchanged. Nevertheless, all this has the merit of putting the spotlight back on a mysterious Xbox, named ” Project keystone ‘, to which the reporter bounced.

As he recalls, the project keystone seems like a bigger project than just reviewing the Xbox Series X† Because of this, and given that the likely improvement of the console chip won’t affect game playback, this overhaul wouldn’t be behind Microsoft’s intriguing project.† Revisions of course, but a clear evolution of the Xbox Series X not expected in the short term.

That remains to be seen in the long term. As reported by our colleagues from GameRantMicrosoft may be interested in a fully digital version of the X serieslike the PS5 Digital Edition, which would deliver the new model of the chip, in addition to taking the size of its sister, the S series† It will be clear that the improved versions of the new generation of consoles, if indeed they ever exist, are not for now!