Xbox chief Phil Spencer claims it’s the most powerful video game console ever made. Current-generation console owners can enjoy games with their 1080p displays while those who acquire the next-gen machines can appreciate titles more on a 4K UHD display. More teraflops equals more computing power for game developers to play with.
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“We want to ensure we have a full range of the best experiences on the new system that we can showcase in their entirety”, said House. If released this year, the console will be the first console out of the Big 3 to be released in the near future: overtaking both the Nintendo NX and the Xbox One Scorpio. Microsoft has been losing market share to Sony in recent years, especially when it comes to units being sold. The PlayStation VR launches in October, and that’s one major hardware launch that Sony will be focusing on.
Portal 2 and Left 4 Dead are the Xbox One’s newest backward compatible titles, both have over 40,000 votes on the official Xbox request website.
“I was surprised by the step of announcing (Scorpio) over a year ahead of time”, he told The Guardian.
The new PS4 Neo features similar hardware specs to the Xbox One Scorpio, including 4K Ultra HD video and VR compatibility, and be around twice as powerful as the current PS4. Todd Howard, Bethesda’s creative director, has said that the virtual reality version of Fallout 4 will come to the new gaming console.
Last week during the annual E3 conference, Microsoft not only announced the Xbox One S, but it also confirmed the existence of Project Scorpio.
On the other hand, PlayStation VR promises to provide gamers with quality virtual reality gaming. However Microsoft has yet to reveal the new set of free games for Xbox Live Gold subscribers for July. Oculus will release their Touch controllers in the second half of 2016 and did not announce any new date guidance.
Though he tempered his comment with an admission he had not spent time with every VR product, Fils-Aime said that he felt VR was not yet “mass market approachable”.
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Considering you get this, plus a gaming console, which can also stream 4K content from third parties once it becomes available, either high-powered console appears to be a good investment. The big show is over so we answer all of your E3-related questions and give our thoughts on what we saw and what we experienced first-hand. The Xbox Scorpio will likely have 8GB of graphics memory (we don’t know this for a fact, but it’s the bare minimum we’d expect) while the Neo will also have 8GB.
