Last week, rumors about Microsoft’s cheapest Xbox Series S console, codenamed Project Lockhart, reappeared after its name appeared in a Microsoft white paper; now, two separate sources say Microsoft is likely to make a full reveal of the console in August.
The report comes from Eurogamer, which echoed the findings of a previous VentureBeat report on a lower-cost, diskless console that was first scheduled to be unveiled in June before returning to a separate event in August. Note that Eurogamer refers to it as Xbox Series S, while VentureBeat refers to it as Xbox Lockhart.
If that’s true, we’ll look at the lower-cost alternative to the Xbox Series X sooner rather than later.
Of course, that doesn’t recognize the elephant in the room – the Xbox event that’s supposed to happen in July that, according to some sources, will only show Xbox Series X games from Microsoft’s in-house development teams, including Halo Infinite.
It remains to be seen how that will influence Microsoft’s announcement plans, but both Eurogamer and Venturebeat seem confident that we’ll have to wait until August to see the new, and supposedly much more affordable, hardware.
Xbox Series S vs Xbox Series X: what’s the deal?
Rumors of the Lockhart Project, which is reportedly the official name of the Xbox S-Series, have been flying for years, but only recently have they started to recover as we get closer to the final leg of the console’s marketing campaign. .
The theory that most people have about the Lockhart Project is that it will be a diskless Xbox Series X with slightly less powerful innards that can only drive 4 TFLOPs of processing power with a maximum of 7.5GB of usable RAM, compared to the 12 GPU TFLOPs and 13.5GB of RAM usable on the Xbox Series X.
Those numbers come from the ProjectLockhart Mode specs found in Microsoft’s Game Development Kit code from last week and could mean the console will push 1080p graphics instead of full 4K like the Xbox Series X.
Regardless of its final specs, Microsoft has already said that the Xbox family of consoles will be able to play the same games, so don’t worry too much about being left out of the upcoming Halo or Gears of War game.
This all depends on Microsoft fully revealing the console in the near future and carefully presenting the differences for fans who need information before the console launches later this year, as a marketing mistake here could cause a setback. important in Microsoft’s race to regain its place as the best console manufacturer.
