Crackdown 3 Delay and The Future of Xbox \\ The Inner Gamer On
2Crackdown 3 was delayed to 2018 making only one exclusive title coming to the Xbox One X this year: Forza Motorsport 7. What does this mean for the future of the console? Many hoped there would be a good lineup of games Microsoft would be using to show the power of the console but instead we're getting a bunch of third-party games instead. How do you feel about this? Is 2018 going to be the year of the Xbox One X instead?
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So what is Crackdown 3?
Crackdown 3 is an upcoming open world action-adventure video game for Microsoft Windows and Xbox One with development being headed by British developers Reagent Games and Sumo Digital, with former Realtime Worlds head and series creator David Jones being involved in the project, and published by Microsoft Studios. Continuing the series seven years after the release of 2010's Xbox 360 video game Crackdown 2, the third title focuses on Microsoft Azure-powered mass scale destruction that enables everything in the game to be destroyed.
What is the Xbox One X?
Xbox One X's design is a revision of the Xbox One S hardware, but further streamlined. It uses a system-on-chip (SoC) known as Scorpio Engine, which incorporates a 2.3 GHz octa-core CPU, and a Radeon GPU with 40 Compute Units clocked at 1172 MHz, generating 6 teraflops of graphical computing performance. It also includes 12 GB of GDDR5 RAM, 9 GB of which is allocated to games. To assist in optimizing the new hardware to run existing games at 4K resolution, Microsoft developers used internal debugging software to collect GPU traces from major titles that did not run at full 1080p resolution on the original Xbox One. Scorpio Engine's CPU utilizes a custom platform designed to maintain compatibility with the Jaguar CPU of the original Xbox One, but with a 31% increase in performance; the custom platform is unrelated to AMD's current Ryzen architecture. The console will feature a vapor chamber method of cooling for the SoC, and motherboards will be tailored to the exact voltage needs of each individual Scorpio SoC to optimize their output and energy usage. The console will also support AMD's FreeSync technology on compatible displays.
Why does this matter?
The Xbox One X is truly the most powerful console ever! With such a powerful console you would think it would have an equally powerful line up of games just waiting at the bit to be launched and played. With the delay of crackdown will the Xbox One X thrive or even survive? We dive deep into what is the possible future of Microsoft and Xbox One X. We also discuss some possible ways for Microsoft to turn things around and thrive in the current gaming ecosystem. Its never to late Xbox!
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