Xbox One Can Play Ultra HD Games

The Gadget Show: ''Microsoft revealed to the world the Xbox One yesterday during its press conference in Washington last night, but there was one tiny detail left out during the unveiling: the next-gen Xbox has some hefty horsepower and it’s capable of driving games at Ultra HD 4K resolution – if you’ve got the telly for it!''

[Hellsvacancy]

So why didnt MS go into this?

[iGAM3R-VIII]

Agreed!!

It might of been because 4K TV's are still highly expensive.

But hey if it involves TV's, it involves the Xbox One

[bintarok]

Maybe 4K games can later be "streamed" via Gaikai/Azure on PS4/X1 when 4K TV is ready for the mass.

It's a pure gimmick for now.

[DeadlyFire]

AZURE is storage space. Don't expect it to stream jack crap with games.

Microsoft has Agawi for cloud game streaming. They partnered with them a year ago. http://agawi.io/html/about....

4K game streaming is illogical. Right now the best streaming out there is 720. Its a long while before 4K cloud streaming becomes relevant. The bandwidth required for that is enormous. This article is just making assumptions without confirmation. Only thing confirmed here is 4K Blu-Ray movies will be playable on Xbox One.

[ThatCanadianGuy514]

It's only possible for Blu-ray movies at this time.
He vaguely suggests it's theoretically possible for nextbox to do it with games in the future

[ThatCanadianGuy514]

What do you mean by "Ram crap" green? the 8gigs of GDDR3 esram? (lol)

[WolfLeBlack]

Because it's unlikely. To create a game pushing 4K resolution would be very, very tough, and the Xbox One doesn't seem to have the raw power required to do it.

A smaller, Arcade style game could maybe do it. Maybe.

[kneon]

Racing games could also do it. PD showed off GT5 running at 4k using 4 ps3s

[greenpowerz]

Xbox Can and will use Azure cloud computing plaform. Its hardware specs are just to assist with cloud computing streaming for more advanced applications and gaming needs. MSFT's new cloud system and new servers are not just for content.

MSFT is trying to do something HUGE and BOLD and people are just not getting it. XBOX One's specs don't really matter because it true specs are in the cloud on advanced servers.

Xbox One in reality does not have console hardware limitations. It will be pumping out games on par with PC long after other consoles are maxed out, that is MSFT's vision and design.

I'm very excited... MSFT invested most of Xbox's One's capability in the Cloud with powerful state of the art servers to help Xbox One off laod computing for perfomance not possible on any hardware and some PC's because it's processing is streamed from hardware not possible to own.

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@IRetrouk

WTF are you talking about? must be that RAM crap again. Please give me details about the Xbox One's custom CPU and how the rest of the system works with it. Where is PS4?

[IRetrouk]

Green, u flip n flop more than a fish out of water, make up your mind, first it was gonna be more powerfull than ps4, now that that clearly isnt the case its all about the cloud?

[kayoss]

@greenpowerz

Hey everyone listen to greenpowerz he is right. He telling us facts and the truth. How do I know that? Because he work at Microsoft and was very highly involved with the development of the xbox1. So you know that he's telling the truth.
Right greenpowerz? You do work at Microsoft right? You did help develope the xbox1 right? My only other question to you is how the fuck did you come up with all this bullshit information? It sure sound like you pulled them out of your ass because all sounds like bullshit.

[IRetrouk]

What part didnt you understand? You flip flop on what you say constantly its funny but pointless

[Mariusmssj]

I just wonder what kind of framerate would he xbox one have at 4K

[DeletedAcc]

"ONE" frame per second

[Ron_Danger]

"One" frame every 24 hours, assuming you have an Internet connection.

[d0nT wOrrY]

If there's any.

[josephayal]

If the Xbox one could do 4K gaming it would be expensive

[the worst]

so how much extra is that going to cost

[SlavisH2]

We know nothing about the CPU or GPU offically so I hope they release it soon. It would be nice to know ps4 offical clock speeds and gpu specs would be nice. PS4 can't play 4k games from what sony stated so this could mean xbox one could be stronger in a gpu department. I hope for more details.

[Fishy Fingers]

Just like this gen they could play 'fullHD' but how few and far between were those?

With 4K prices so high and the adoption rate so low, developers will prefer (and be right to) to put the horsepower required to push that many pixels to 'better use'.

No one wants to play 4k pong.

[Brazz]

MS is not going for 4K, no way... if 4K are possible for Xbox one Ms would be like > "WE are the first 4K machine in gaming console! We are the strongest!"
MS is the king when it comes to boost themselves!

[kneon]

4k TVs are already down to about $5000, another year and they will break below $2500

[Kinger8938]

They promised true 1080p this gen and we have hardly seen that in games, i would rather they focus on making that a standard before jumoing to the next big thing

Actually i dunno if it was promised but i hope you get what im saying :)

[humleren]

No it cannot.. A good gaming rig (say an i7, 8 gigs of ram and a gtx 670) can't handle decent 4k gaming, so there's absolutely no chance the Xbox One will. 4k movies, sure.... just like the PS4. There's a slight chance we may see 4k res in really simple 2D or arcade-style games, but i doubt it. I've tested rigs, that i now allready far surpass the PS4 and Xbox One hardware, and they can handle it, but the framerates isn't great, without severely reducing a lot of processing effects.

[LoveOfTheGame]

And Luke thought it was impossible for Vader to be his father...we all know how that turned out.

[tetsuhana]

As long as they aren't used....

[AzaziL]

Considering the rumors that Battlefield 4 on next gen consoles will be only 720p to achieve a solid 60fps, I could only imagine that 1080p will struggle for 30-45fps and 4k will be around 15-30fps.

TL;DR - No point in 4k if the hardware can't even support 60fps for 1080p.

[OpenGL]

Plus current revisions of HDMI only support 3840x2160, often referred as 4k at 30Hz. I guess on a console this isn't such an issue as any game available at that resolution would probably be limited to 30fps, but it would be unfortunate for 2D games that would otherwise easily be achievable at the resolution on the PS4 / Xbox One hardware.

There's a new HDMI revision on the way but it is possible that it won't be available for the Xbox One / PS4 launch window. It was supposed to start popping up in the first half of 2013 but obviously that isn't happening now.

[KontryBoy706]

How important is this when the X1 isn't even a gaming console???? Is a set top box lol