- Nintendo
Nintendo presented a new limited edition Switch console in the style of the battle royale Fortnite
The Special Edition includes the console itself with a Fortnite print on the back, exclusive blue and yellow controllers, and a Fortnite-themed dock.
The bundle will also include pre-installed Fortnite and a download code for two bundles: the Wild Cat and the Ergonomics accessory with a 2,000 V-Bucks bonus.
The bundle will go on sale in Europe on October 30th and will include:
- A uniquely designed Nintendo Switch console with Fortnite pre-installed.
- Exclusive Joy-Con in yellow and blue.
- Docking station with a unique design.
- Wildcat Bundle download code and 2k V-Bucks.
The cost of the console has not yet been disclosed.
- Xbox
Xbox will releasesmallest console in company history. We're talking about the next generation console, the Xbox Series S, which will be the "smallest Xbox ever."
The company announced this on its Twitter following a console design leak. Insider Brad Sams was one of the first to share information about the future design.
According to the company, this is the smallest Xbox inbrand history for an extremely affordable price of $ 299. Later, an insider WalkingCat published a video comparing the sizes of Series S and Series X - the younger model will be half the size. Apparently, the video was supposed to be shown at the Microsoft presentation.
Insider information confirmed in WindowsCentral. The publication reported that both versions of the console will be released simultaneously - November 10. According to them, the older model will be sold for $ 499 (37 thousand rubles), and the younger one - for 299 (22 thousand rubles). The Series S will not have a drive and will support 1080p gaming rather than 4K gaming.
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The day before, the company disclosed all specificationsthe newest Xbox Series S. “The main difference between the Xbox Series X and S is the GPU,” explains Jason Ronald, Microsoft's director of Xbox program management.
Xbox Series S delivers four times moreprocessing power than an Xbox One console and supports frame rates up to 120 frames per second. The main difference between the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S is resolution. After talking with customers, we found that many of our fans prioritize frame rate over resolution, so we wanted to create a console that didn't require a 4K TV.
Liz Hamren, Head of Platform and Hardware Development, Xbox
This forced Microsoft to use anothergraphics processor in the Xbox Series S to reduce the price. It, as the company promises, will be about three times more powerful than the Xbox One. The Xbox Series S has 20 CUs at 1.565 GHz, which gives 4 teraflops of performance, compared to the 12.15 teraflops (52 CUs at 1.825 GHz) found on the larger Xbox Series X.
The power gap is obvious, but Microsoft is aimingto use the Xbox Series S on 1080p or 1440p monitors and TVs, so you don't need the same GPU power you need to play 4K games.
Detailed description of the differences between consoles
Xbox Series S must be able to run gamesthe next generation with a lower resolution than the Xbox Series X. The smaller console also features Microsoft's Xbox Velocity architecture for a custom 512GB SSD that provides features like Quick Resume to quickly switch between games. In addition, the company promises four times the processing power of the Xbox One.
- Playstation
Quite some time has passed since the presentation of the new design, but no official information has appeared about the start of sales or the price of the console.
It was planned to publish the price of the gadget in early September, but GamesRadar+, citing company materials, reported a change in the release date.
Journalists of the publication drew attention to the fact thatThe console's release dates vary across regional PlayStation sites. In particular, on the American site of the console it is reported that the PS5 will be released during the 2020 holiday period (Launches Holiday 2020). Previously, the same release date information was posted on the product's website in the UK, but Sony recently revised the page to say the PS5 will arrive in late 2020.
Based on this, the journalists concluded thatthe console will first of all appear on sale in the American market - in the USA and Canada. For other regions, the console will be available towards the end of 2020. For comparison, the Russian PlayStation 5 website reports that "Launch is scheduled for late 2020."
According to experts, the early release of the console forNorth America confirms a deleted Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War trailer. The video announced that consumers from the US and Canada will be able to purchase the next generation set-top box before the rest of the world. After a while, the trailer was removed from the PlayStation YouTube channel.
At the same time, information appeared from another insider:
PlayStation is preparing a show where it willbackwards compatibility information is provided, more exclusives are announced, release date and price. The event was supposed to take place in early August. However, it will now take place after Xbox reveals its cards, in late August or early September.
Insider Tidux
Believe it or not what Tidux says is up to you.
Recall that at the end of August, Sony openedpre-order on PS5 for US residents. The company invited users of the PS ecosystem to leave an application for the purchase of the console and get into the electronic queue, which gives the right to order a set-top box among the first buyers. At the same time, Sony did not disclose the cost of the product, specifying that one user will be able to purchase only one console at a time.
According to the latest data, PlayStation 5 will be released during the 2020 holiday season in the US and Canada, and later in 2020 in the rest of the world.
Let us remind you that the characteristics of the console according to the latest data:
The characteristics of the PS5 are already largely known.The central processor of the PlayStation 5 will be a third-generation 7-nanometer AMD Ryzen chip with 8 cores based on the Zen 2 architecture, paired with a custom Radeon Navi family GPU (based on a fundamentally new RDNA architecture) with support for ray tracing technology. According to preliminary calculations, RDNA will provide a 1.25x increase in performance per clock and 1.5x — per watt compared to GCN.
In terms of power, Sony claims the system will be able to support resolutions up to8Kinclusive and work at120 Hz... The processor's operating frequency of 2.0 Ghz is capable of delivering 9.2 teraflops of power on the new RDNA architecture, which is equivalent to about 14 teraflops on the old GCN.
Compared to the latest graphicsNVIDIA GeForcethis result theoretically allows you to place the PlayStation 5 between video cardsRTX 2070 Super(9.1 teraflops) andRTX 2080(10.1 teraflops).
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