![]() ![]() Since it's not possible to install native homebrew on an Xbox One, I can't imagine companies buying up Xbox's in the tens of thousands and setting up data centers. ![]() I read in another thread that Unity has a lot of overhead and would greatly reduce the efficiency of GPU mining. Microsoft and Sony would probably see a spike in sales, but it wouldn't replace PC GPU's or ASICs. Supposedly this current generation of consoles is the best selling in the entire history of consoles so they've had no trouble filling that increased demand so far.Īnd even if console mining became possible, I doubt it'd become a new norm. Of course I don't pretend to know what capacity Microsoft or Sony's manufacturing partners have in filling increased demand. Despite being just as popular, you rarely ever see Microsoft or Sony consoles run out of stock like Nintendo systems, especially well into a console generation like right now. I've had 0 impact on the GPU market for the past couple generations of GPU's.Ĭlick to expand.A lot of people believe that Nintendo purposefully does that to drive demand actually and that there's no reason Nintendo shouldn't be able to meet demand for their consoles. It's only something I do with spare processing power I already have, in this case a GTX 660 and GT 740. I've yet to purchase any hardware specifically for cryptomining. I do believe that console gaming would be largely unaffected by an increase in cryptomining.Īnd in the end, this is just a hypothetical discussion for opinions and theories. Nintendo consoles for example are always in high demand and often out of stock, yet aside from scalpers on ebay, the price doesn't drastically increase. The Xbox 360 was sold at a loss for almost its entire lifetime. So as long as people are paying for their xbox live subscriptions, it'll keep the price of consoles steady. That's where the money is at for consoles, not the hardware itself. They keep the prices low and sell consoles at a loss to entice people to buy Xbox Live and PSN subscriptions which leads to more revenue streams like microtransactions, etc. Not to mention Microsoft and Sony don't pay retail prices for the graphics card either. In fact, console manufacturers aren't really concerned with making a profit off the hardware. The difference between consoles and PC's is that the price of consoles is always subsidized by the manufacturers. Now someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but if a miner were to be made in Unity, it would completely take advantage of the GPU right? As in would a straight port of a C# CPU Miner use the GPU instead since this is in managed code? Or am I totally mistaken and a GPU miner in Unity would still need GPU specific code? I've been doing a lot of research into this lately and if anybody wants to weigh in and offer any insight that'd be great.Ĭlick to expand.I actually don't think it would affect the price of consoles much. So this would be a great opportunity to create a miner in Unity. There's no UWP or native app for the Xbox One that can do GPU mining. AS FAR AS I KNOW, only browser based javascript mining is possible on consoles right now which is CPU based. Recently, an update was made that allowed these developer mode apps and games to use the full power of the Xbox One X. I'm not too sure about PS4 development, but the Xbox One and Xbox One X both allow you to enable developer mode on it and deploy your own games and apps to it. ![]() In the case of the Xbox One X, the consensus is that it's GPU is pretty close to the RX 580 and GTX 1070 which puts the Xbox One X right in mining territory. But now that GPU and even CPU mining have made a comeback with other cryptocurrencies like Monero, and with graphics card prices rising through the roof as a result, there's only one place left people can get relatively powerful graphics cards at consistent cheap prices, and that is game consoles like the Xbox One X and PS4 Pro. What are your thoughts on using Unity to create a cryptocurrency miner for modern game consoles? I know the idea has been brought up before a long time back during the bitcoin boom and the idea was deemed impractical because at the time GPU's were on their way out for mining in favor of ASICs so a Unity miner wouldn't have been helpful at all. ![]()
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