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That's why it feels so smooth goin' down.
- [Riley] Ew.
- All the way down. - [Riley] No!
- [James] After leaks revealed the design and price
of the lower-power Xbox Series S and the Series X,
Microsoft decided to go with the flow
and make the reveal official.
Phil Spencer said
they're gonna tell everybody next week, he swears.
But he's got a kind of suspicious face, you know?
And very punchable.
Not sure if we can trust him. - [Riley] Tee-hee!
- Anyways, both consoles launch on November 10th,
with preorders opening on September 22nd,
just three days before my birthday.
An Xbox Series S will cost us just $299,
and physically it takes up
less than half the volume of the Series X,
which will cost $499.
- [Riley] Whoo. The bets are settled.
It's over. - [Riley] Nice.
- [James] That's partly because the Series S
lacks a disc drive, but it also has
weaker specs across the board:
a less powerful GPU, a slightly lower-clocked CPU
as well as less VRAM and less storage.
But Microsoft says it will still be capable
of delivering 1440p gameplay
at 120 FPS- - [Riley] Whoo!
- [James] For 299. - [Riley] Wow!
- Dang?
Dang. But the deal actually just gets better!
EA's game subscription, EA Play,
has just been plonked into Xbox Game Pass for free,
while Xbox All Access, basically a hardware payment plan
that comes with Games Pass and Xbox Live,
will now allow users to upgrade to the new consoles.
- [Riley] Whoo, man.
- And as Ars Technica points out,
you might even save money going that route
instead of just buying the console
and games passes separately outright.
Really, the only bad part of today's Xbox news
is a leak showing a 1-terabyte expansion SSD
retailing for $220, I mean...
Dang, Philly.
(laughs) We trusted you.
Google has rolled out Android 11 to Pixel phones.
I didn't notice.
What? - You didn't update it.
- Oh. Other phones have it too though?
- [Riley] Yeah! - OnePlus, Xiaomi, OPPO
and Realme devices can also update to Android 11
if they're paying attention, unlike me,
although it's just a stable beta version.
But that's still...
That's better than just Pixels, right?
(chuckles) Take that, Apple. I don't get it.
Anyways, Android 11 brings built-in screen recording,
system-level messaging bubbles,
revamped media controls built into the notification shade,
group notifications and a few other
privacy and security tweaks.
Google has normally revealed a new statue
in Mountain View for each Android release,
but this time they just made an AR statue
that you can see through your phone.
You know, keep your physical distance from those statues.
- [Riley] Yeah, go with it though.
- It says (sputters) Apple would make a real statue,
but I don't know, their announcement for their event
was also AR. - [Riley] Apple would do it!
- I don't think they would.
Something Apple might do though, apparently,
is remove the ability for users
to log into their Epic Games accounts
using the "Sign In with Apple" method.
I don't know what Apple thought this would accomplish.
Like, would this be the final straw
that makes Epic go, "Oh, okay, fine.
Lawsuit's off." (Riley laughs)
- [Riley] Oh, shoot!
The sign-in? Not the sign-in!
- It's the drop that makes the glass run over.
Users shouldn't be affected as long as they make sure
their email and password are up to date
so they can sign in the old-fashioned way.
This latest petty move
in the legal fight between the two companies
comes after Apple countersued Epic
for damages suffered from the loss of "Fortnite" revenue,
with Apple calling Epic's actions, "Theft, period."
Even if Apple is legally correct here,
it feels a bit weird to say that Epic stole the money
generated from their game from Apple,
and isn't this how this all started?
- [Riley] Yep. - So stupid.
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- [Riley] Whoa! Where are you?
- I don't know.
Western Digital apparently has this weird habit
of doing stupid things,
because after just getting over that whole
shingled magnetic recording debacle,
the company has now started labeling 7200 RPM drives
as 5400 RPM drives meant for servers and NAS systems.
This means the drivers are louder, hotter
and consume more power than owners expect.
Apparently WD are calling the drives 5400 RPM-class units.
Cool.
Gonna start saying I'm a seven-foot-class dude.
You're all so tiny down there.
Ask me how the weather is.
Inside sources are claiming that Microsoft
is readying a new midrange Surface device
to launch this fall for around 500 U.S. dollars.
That would be pretty amazing
if it didn't also have only 64 gigabytes of storage
and 4 gigabytes of RAM.
- [Riley] Come on! - Are you kidding me, man?
It's 2020, Microsoft.
Making a laptop with 4 gigabytes of RAM
is like making a car that has legs instead of wheels,
and tiny little short legs
that aren't even seven-foot-class.
- [Riley] Oh, that's pointless!
- Wait, did they just invent the horse?
More rumors are pointing to an upgraded,
4K-capable Nintendo Switch launching next year, 2021.
A Bloomberg report covering Nintendo
increasing Switch production to meet demand
also claims that the company has told
third-party developers to prepare
4K-ready versions of their games.
Yes! Can't wait to see Mario's pores.
His little, greasy plumber pores.
We've already proved he has nipples.
This is the next frontier.
Mario's blackheads.
(Riley laughs)
"PUBG Mobile" may have found a way to remain in India
after being banned from the country
along with over 100 other Chinese apps, including Tik Tok.
The game is actually produced
by the South Korean PUBG Corp,
which will now publish the game itself in India
instead of Tencent.
Tencent's not a place, the company's gonna publish it
instead of Tencent's publishing it,
you see what I'm saying here.
I'll see you back on the battlefield, soldier.
Or I'll see bots. It'll probably be bots.
- [Riley] Welcome back. - The easiest level.
And Razer has unleashed
their most powerful gaming accessory yet.
The company partnered with 5 Gum to launch Respawn,
which promises to help gamers maintain focus
and reaction time while gaming
thanks to green tea extract, B vitamins,
and synthetic rage.
- [Riley] What? Whoa!
- And the power of chewing! (Riley laughs)
Not those last two.
Thank you for imbibing today's tech news with us.
Come back on Friday for more of the good stuff.
Oh yeah, it's good.
- [Riley] Aw, you coulda done that better.
- I need gum. (Riley laughs)