At this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), Xbox head Phil Spencer announced the arrival of two new consoles, including a new Xbox One model, capable of streaming 4K content and the next iteration of Xbox, codenamed Project Scorpio. According to Microsoft’s senior director of product management however, not every developer will be using the hardware of the Scorpio in that way.
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Xbox Scorpio will launch holiday 2017.
“We’re confident that we’ll be able to deliver true 4K gaming with that, and that performance power is gonna bring great games to our fans in the console market”.
Both the PS Neo and the Xbox Project Scorpio are claimed to be able to provide so-called “true 4K gaming” which seems impossible for the moment considering that even the NVDIDIA GTX 1080 can not provide a stable 60 frames per second in some AAA games that are demanding in resources. We wouldn’t have went out and said it if we didn’t think we could do it. Today even the very best 4K gaming PC rigsjust barely manage this mark and so far only a couple consumer 4K GPUs -NVIDIA’s GTX 1080 and Titan X Pascal card for 2016-can really be called a true across-the-board card for 4K gaming above 55 to 60 fps even at high detail levels.
Project Scorpio is a console made for VR. The Xbox Scorpio is now slated for a release next year, and developers are promised access to 8 CPU cores, 320GB’s of memory bandwidth, and 6tflops of GPU power. Microsoft’s gamer-centric sweatsuit (I can’t believe I just typed that sentence) is completely ridiculous, and I absolutely need one. Of course though, Microsoft still does have almost a year to further develop the Scorpio’s technology and by the time its 2017 release date rolls around, it may well live up to exactly what Microsoft is claiming for it, which is reliable native [email protected] gaming.
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Greenberg added that many of Microsoft’s dev teams are already creating games in 4K.
