Microsoft’s next Xbox game console is coming this summer, but aside from a slimmer design and support for 4K and HDR content, the Xbox One S isn’t actually all that different from the original Xbox One.
But the company does have a much more powerful Xbox in the works. It’s code-named Project Scorpio, and Microsoft says it’s coming in late 2017.
Microsoft says the Project Scorpio device will be capable of handling 4K video games and high-fidelity virtual reality experiences. The console is said to have an octa-core processor, up to 320 GB/s of memory bandwidth, and up to 6 TeraFLOPS of graphics processing power.
The new game console will still be part of the Xbox One family, and it’ll support all games and accessories developed for the Xbox One or One S. But it’ll also be able to support higher resolutions and frame rates.
As far as virtual reality, Microsoft hasn’t yet announced whether it’s working on its own headset or if its working with Oculus or another company. But with Sony’s PlayStation VR set to launch this fall, it seems like Xbox users will have to wait a year longer (and spend money on a new game console) if they want to use their console as a VR device.
Then again, Sony is expected to have a more powerful PlayStation device in the works as well.
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So I can buy the new Xbox coming soon for $299 but it will be obsolete in a year?
Nope, any games that work with scorpio will work with XBONE and XBONES
Sure they will. That will all work fine. Companies will put effort into making the games great on the lower machine and what… greaterer on the better one? What will quickly happen is that all the effort will go to the new more powerful device and you will be able to play the games on the older one but nobody will want to because they will be largely stripped of the things which make them new/great. Essentially to buy the S, if your interest is gaming, is like burying $300 because as VR fleshes out and if MS is on time with Scorpio then just a short 12 months later you will be wishing hard you had that $300 back to put toward the Scorpio. Scorpio can’t really sell for a whole lot more. $500 tops would be my guess. How the S would make sense would be if you… Read more »
The way I read it, this isn’t actually a new console per se, just a refresh that allows better performance and graphical options.
Are you kidding? A refresh? If there is a newer model, it’s a new model. The Xbox 360 generation sure you might argue that those were a refresh at best. The S is something different. Sure, it’s fine to have a slower older console within a couple years? Then after that S, you can once again chase the newest console. Or of course keep using that bulky and old original Xbox One.
If it were an entirely new console, it would be its own exclusive platform of games and may or may not be backwards compatible with past systems’ games.
The article does not say that. It says it’s compatible with all Xbox One games and gear, explicitly calls it part of the Xbox One family, and omits any mentioning of having its own exclusive games platform. It sounds like they refreshed the guts more so than the S to provide better performance on existing games.
Doubt it. They say it’s compatible with the games and gear made for the One. It hasn’t exactly been clarified whether Scorpio games will work with Xbox One, but with the Xbox Anywhere initiative, you could see digital versions of select games give you PC, Scorpio, and One access to the game.
Lets not beat around the bush. This is the 4th Xbox. It’s going to have 4x more compute power than the Xbox One. It’s the 4th Xbox.
He was referring to the XBONES, not Project Scorpio. The Xbox One S is more akin to a 360 elite or something along those lines.
The article itself was about the Scorpio, so that’s on him if he was referring to it in his comment.
This is another nail in the Microsoft coffin for me. Sure, waste money on the Xbox One. Then within a year (or so) they make that obsolete. Meanwhile you are already aware of an even more powerful console coming in the year following. Big F you. I’m just wondering how dedicated to Microsoft somebody has to be to accept the scratched discs and RROD from Xbox 360, then buying into Xbox One. Then they are releasing a newer version while your console still has the “new” smell. Then after that, there will be a newer, better and faster console. Sorry, only an idiot would by into this. On principle alone, that is nothing short of a joke.
Well it will have been 4 years since the One. Xbox to 360 was the same. Microsoft felt a similar urgency to get ahead of Sony with Scorpio. The only difference is, the One will remain in production as the lower cost console, likely with Microsoft exclusives still coming to the One as well as higher resolution versions on Scorpio. The original Xbox was a massive bleeder for Microsoft, just getting their feet in the consoles. This generation, both Sony and Microsoft aimed to try to make a profit on each console sold as fast as possible, thus we got outdated hardware much faster (some would even say at launch). Microsoft wanted to kill the original Xbox as quickly as possible because they couldn’t keep competing with Sony in sales and price. The One they’re trying to make more universal with newer Xbox services and Windows 10 as a whole.… Read more »
Thanks for your insight. You work in the industry? You know your stuff.
Not at all. I’m in retail. Just observation and I think likelihood of what Microsoft is going to try to do. I am more of a PC enthusiast but I don’t think I’m far off in Microsoft trying to have a high end and lower end Xbox hardware lineup coming up. And while I definitely am the type of person who corrected people when there was a lot of false hope about the Xbox One having more power than on paper, I still respect and think it’s great that Microsoft might be positioning themselves to have a pretty damn good gaming box for upto 300 bucks. Games are still stupid expensive though. And that’s why I prefer PC gaming Steam and digital sales.
I did some fact checking. Xbox 360 to Xbox One was about 8 years. Yes, that’s eight years. Sony or Microsoft pulling this kind of move is equally insulting. Anyone who is jumping for joy? I guess you also enjoy buying yearly EA games with modest improvements. If Microsoft wants to buy their made obsolete Xbox One console and exchange it, I’ll gladly do it. What they are saying is they are misguided, lack vision, and ultimately failed miserably with the original Xbox One.
I said original Xbox to 360 was 4 years. Like I said. I’m a PC gamer. I don’t buy many games except for sales. You don’t have to like their strategy, but I do. It sounds like from recent interviews that they are indeed planning to make new games work with Scorpio and One, with the games running on Scorpio having higher resolution and/or framerates.
Sony is doing the same.
Sony didn’t announce anything. Smart move. They can take back my PS4 if they are going to make is obsolete in 3 years. We may not be able to call these consoles anymore. Those were safe bets and you avoided that obsolete feeling. If they both do it, then big middle finger to both of them.
Sony announced the PlayStation 4 ‘Neo’ a few days before Microsoft, under what rock have you been hiding?
Xbox 360/PS3 performance:
Intel Core m7-6Y75, Intel Iris 515 (on-board), 2GB DDR3L (1.3GHz) RAM, 5,400rpm HDD
(about as powerful as a high-end tablet e.g. ASUS ZenPad Z8)
Xbox One/S/PS4 performance:
Intel Core i3-6300T, nVidia 750Ti (2GB GDDR5), 4GB DDR3 (1.6GHz) RAM, 5,400rpm HDD
(about as powerful as a gaming laptop e.g. ASUS K501UX-NS51)
PS4K/Xbox Scorpio performance:
Intel Core i5-6400T, nVidia 980-1070 (4GB-8GB GDDR5), 4GB DDR4 (1.8GHz) RAM, 750 EVO SSD
(about as powerful as a miniITX PC e.g. msi Vortex)
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well you have to multiply the energy waste and co2 expell of eah oe of those consoles for the gazillions of everratbreeding a55-holes in ths planet. So hman overpopulation conditions and limits what you can or you can’t do. I is not like they could theoreticaly something better. But it s not practical in this situation. Obviously thats not an appealing product.
Come again?