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The war to conquer the console market between Microsoft and Sony It has been a good few years, since 2001 more precisely, when the company founded by Bill Gates He launched Xbox, its first platform. PlayStation had been on the market for a few years and by the early 2000s it had its best-selling console for sale so far, the Play Station 2. Since then, the two companies have been striving to be the most successful and famous among gamers worldwide.
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A few months after the arrival of the platforms of the new generation, the ninth, of both companies, both Microsoft how Sony They seek to retain their users and gain more followers. The main strategy, although silently and without official announcements, of the American giant is to offer a slightly less powerful and considerably cheaper console. In the gaming industry, the Xbox Series S – or Xbox Lockhart, such is its code name – is an open secret that Microsoft can no longer (or does not want to) stop.
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According to the specialized website Eurogamer (in its British version), the initial idea of the American company was to present the Xbox Series S in June during E3 2020, plans that underwent obvious modifications due to the suspension of the most important video game fair due to the coronavirus pandemic that plagues the entire planet. To resolve these cancellations that were happening over the months and the spread of the virus, Microsoft designed the Xbox 20/20, monthly events in which it offers news about everything related to its new platform (s) ( s).
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According to sources from Eurogamer and the Venture Beat website, August would be the month indicated for the presentation of the Xbox Series S, the platform that would cost half as much as the Xbox Series X and Play Station 5, which are expected to have similar prices. The marked lower cost is an important attraction for consumers. Obviously, In order to make the console more economical, some components will have to be sacrificed and the visual section will suffer in equal measure, while the X Series is designed for 4K resolution, the S Series would target 1080p screens.
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Reports report that Series X video games will also be playable in Series S and that the budget console format will be similar to that of the Xbox One X, launched in 2017. At the moment, the technical specifications of the Xbox Lockhart are not known, but the rumors raised by the web The Verge indicate that the power of the GPU will be 4 Teraflops, instead of the 12 that the X Series will offer. The CPU will be similar and the RAM will be 7.5 GB, instead of the 13.5 of the platform already confirmed by Microsoft.
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The Xbox 20/20 of May arrived with some titles and many criticisms for the absence of both important news and some gameplay. Throughout June there was no virtual event by Microsoft, so it was expected that July would happen in the first weeks. However, the journalist Jez Corden, who usually has good information about what is happening in the American company, has already warned that we will have to wait to see the Xbox 20/20 in July. The expectation for the event lies in that it will be in which the exclusive titles that will reach the catalog of the new platform will be announced.
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SonyFor its part, on June 11 it presented two versions of the Play Station 5. The novelty was the platform without a slot for Blu-ray, so it will be a somewhat cheaper console, but it would not reach the low cost of the Series S from Microsoft.
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