Microsoft Xbox One X is now available for buying in India for Rs 44,990

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Microsoft's next-generation gaming console, aka the Xbox One X, has been officially launched in India at Rs 44,990. Well, it was launched earlier on January 4, but apparently Microsoft's Xbox One X page messed up with the availability specifics, saying the console will go on sale from January 15. Only it didn't. On Tuesday, Microsoft hosted a press conference in the National Capital, announcing the Xbox One X will go on sale from today online from the company's e-shop, Flipkart and Amazon India. The Xbox One X will also be available for buying from select physical retail stores like Landmark and Croma, Microsoft has announced.
Each Xbox One X unit will ship with a 14-day Xbox Live Gold trial along with a month of Xbox Game Pass subscription trial, according to Microsoft.
"We are delighted to offer gamers the world's most powerful console with access to the largest and most diverse games lineup in Xbox history, including Forza Motorsport 7, Assassin's Creed: Origins, Cuphead and Super Lucky's Tale, out of more than 1,300 titles and more than 220 exclusives available on the Xbox One X, just a few short months after the device's global launch. We've listened to our community and are excited to be bringing this new console to Indian gamers," Priyadarshi Mohapatra, country general manager, Consumer & Devices Sales, Microsoft India said.
The Xbox One X -- Microsoft's much-awaited Project Scorpio -- is being touted as the world's first true 4K console. Not only is the Xbox One X the most powerful gaming console in the world, it is also the smallest Xbox ever, according to Microsoft.
The Xbox One X may not be a next-generation console, but, the mid-cycle Xbox refresh from Microsoft has enough horsepower under the hood to grant it the label of being the most powerful gaming console in the world when it arrives later this year unless Sony surprise the world. It looks powerful than the Sony PlayStation right now. At least that's what the console's on-paper specs seem to suggest. Take a look.
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-- CPU: Eight custom x86 cores clocked at 2.3GHz as opposed to eight Jaguar cores clocked at 2.1GHz in Sony's PS4 Pro
-- GPU: 40 customised compute units at 1,172 MHz as opposed to 36 improved GCN compute units at 911 MHz in the PS4 Pro
-- RAM: 12GB GDDR5 (with 9GB dedicated to games) as opposed to 8GB in the PS4 Pro
-- Bandwidth: 326 GB/s as opposed to 218 GB/s in the PS4 Pro
-- Storage: 1TB
The Xbox One X ships with 6 teraflops of graphical power. Its main competitor, the Sony PlayStation 4 Pro -- for your reference -- ships with 4.2 teraflops of graphical power under the hood. It also ships with a UHD Blu-ray drive. Note that, although Sony's PS4 Pro supports 4K -- not natively, however -- it does not include a UHD Blu-ray drive.
Scorpio's -- the engine that drives the Xbox One X -- main USP is making your existing Xbox One and backwards compatible-enabled Xbox 360 games look better. In more technical terms, the Xbox One X should allow players to run all 900p and 1080p Xbox One (backwards compatible-enabled 360) titles at native 4K, at full 60 frames-per-second. Which means, all existing Xbox One titles should look better on the Xbox One X due to enhanced visual fidelity, anisotropic filtering, and faster loading times. The new console will also work with all current Xbox One accessories, Microsoft has confirmed.
Although, 4K will largely be the buzzword, all Scorpio-exclusive games (although it's highly unlikely that there will be any) will super sample down to 1080p and all Scorpio-exclusive game modes (should there be any) will be available for all users regardless of their display. Technically, players will not require a 4K-ready monitor to use the Xbox One X. The console will use supersampling to improve visuals on 1080p screens, while offering true 4K UHD playback on 4K screens.
Microsoft announced the Xbox One X, at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in June 2017. Globally, the Xbox One X is selling for $499 (roughly Rs 31,639) since November 2017.

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