E3 2016: Microsoft Reveals New Xbox One 'Project Scorpio'
Get ready for a bigger, badder new Xbox One.
Microsoft has revealed the all-new, updated Xbox One console known as "Project Scorpio."
Featuring 6 Teraflops of power, this new console will be compatible with all games and peripherals currently available for the Xbox One. It will be available starting Holiday 2017.
During the reveal, Microsoft's Phil Spencer stressed that, despite the power of the Scorpio outdoing the Xbox One, all current console onwers would not be left behind or excluded from content with original Xbox One consoles.
Additionally, Microsoft showed off the Xbox One S, an all-new redesigned version of the Xbox One with a handful of new features available later this year for a starting MSRP of $299.
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replyCassidee Moser posted a new article, E3 2016: Microsoft Reveals New Xbox One "Project Scorpio"
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....and in the process murders both XBONE original and S.
Why the fuck would they segregate the market like this?
"Games can be played in the Xbox family" - yup, ONE WAY! Not up and down the Xbox family of devices.
When developers make games, where do you think they will focus their attention? On the most powerful of the three machines.-
This is great news, because it effectively means the end of this current console generation (even if they are keeping the name). I'm glad we won't have to wait 8 years for this generation to end, the 360 and PS3 were pretty ancient by the time they were replaced.
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When developers make games, where do you think they will focus their attention? On the most powerful of the three machines.
If I were a developer I'd focus my attention on what gets me the most customers. That means focusing on the 10s of millions of existing Xbox One owners. This is how hardware platforms work. Developers target where customers are, not where their favorite specs are. -
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Hi. My name is rtricoche and I have no idea what just happened today, what was just announced, how it was said or what it means, but listen to me when I tell you that Microsoft has just killed their consoles!
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I honestly don't think it will be that big a deal for all the versions.. Look at it this way, game devs already have to make a game playable on many different video cards/specs as it is. A console game dev will only need to make it playable on 3 different versions... Xbone, xbone s, and Scorpio. A lot easier than making sure a game will work on 30+ different video cards/cpu's
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Xbox one was anemic at launch.
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Some of the post MS E3 conference correspondents over at IGN felt as I did when I saw the show and my understanding about developers and hardware is they make games for the most successful platform regardless of power. The point im trying to illustrate is that you dont announce a mid-range solution and then say we have something better down the line.
In my business circles, that straw-man solution wouldn't apply and our superiors would opt to wait for the better solution. They would not spend money twice.
Just doesn't make sense. But I realize I am part of the silent minority. The gaming industry doesn't run by the same rules as the rest of the world. Its mostly fueled by nostalgia, finger pointing, trolling and egos.
Figure at least the gaming community is open about it.
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