Regarding Xbox Series X Power, Gearbox Head Randy Pitchford Not Looking For “Excuses” From Phil Spencer

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Is it Moore’s Law, or Murphy’s Law?

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Gearbox Software founder Randy Pitchford is known for his outspoken ways, and today was no different—except, perhaps, that today’s controversial opinion was directed at Xbox head Phil Spencer.

The exchange, which took place over Twitter, kicked off when Spencer commented on Digital Foundry’s Xbox Series X tech analysis, defending Microsoft’s upcoming console’s power and noting that Moore’s Law was slowing down.

Pitchford was not particularly impressed with the comment, asking, “Is Moore’s Law slowing down? How many transistors in the Series X?”

“Your ambitious message for the Xbox One X was inspiring,” he continued, “but for Series X, well, this feels more like an excuse.”

Moore’s Law, for the unfamiliar, claims that transistor density on a microchip doubles every two years, increasing power and decreasing price. According to Digital Foundry, that doubling of power is “unlikely” to have happened between the Xbox One X, which was revealed in July 2017, and the upcoming Xbox Series X, revealed this month.

The concept has been a hot topic among tech leaders this year. At CES 2019 in January, for instance, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made headlines with his comments at a Q&A, saying, “Moore’s Law used to grow at 10 times every five years [and] 100 times every 10 years. Right now Moore’s Law is growing a few percent every year. Every 10 years maybe only 2s. … So Moore’s Law has finished.”

We first learned some of Xbox Series X’s technical details through GameSpot’s recent coverage, which revealed an approximately 12-teraflop GPU, and a CPU with 4 times the power of this generation’s consoles.

Xbox Series X was revealed at The Game Awards 2019 last week, where a fake script was used to prevent leaks from flooding the Internet ahead of the show. The system will release Holiday 2020.

Correction (Dec. 20, 2:40pm CT): Parts of this story, including the original headline, inaccurately portrayed Pitchford’s comments. We have adjusted the story, and we apologize for the error.


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