Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced that it will launch Project Scorpio in China later this year, according to a report from Game Spot. The Project Scorpio, deemed to be the most powerful console ever made by Microsoft, will arrive in the United States in Holiday 2017.
The Project Scorpio’s launch in China is a notable thing because Microsoft released the Xbox One in China in 2014, almost a year after the console was debuted in the U.S. and other regions in 2013.
Microsoft said that the Scorpio will play games and videos in a 4K resolution. The console will also play games and video in HDR.
Here is everything we know so far about the Project Scorpio.
Project Scorpio Specs, News, Features
The Project Scorpio will use a custom GPU designed by Microsoft in a partnership with AMD, according to a report from Digital Foundry via PolyGon. The GPU will include 40 Radeon compute units running at 1172 MHz, compared to the Xbox One’s 853 MHz.
On the CPU side, there will be eight custom x86 cores at 2.3 GHz, 31% faster than the original Xbox One. The Scorpio will deliver the six-teraflop of processing power.
The console will feature 12 GB of GDDR5 RAM and 326 GB/s of memory bandwidth. It will be shipped with a 2.5-inch 1 TB hard drive.
Unlike the PS4 Pro, the Scorpio will come with an Ultra HD Blu-ray drive.
In addition, the Project Scorpio will be backward compatible with Xbox One games. That means, players will be able to play every single Xbox One game on the console.
Scorpio Might Be Last Console Generations
Aaron Greenberg, the boss of Xbox marketing, said in an interview with Engadget that the Scorpio might be the last console generation. He sees the future “without console generations.”
“For us, we think the future is without console generations; we think that the ability to build a library, a community, to be able to iterate with the hardware — we’re making a pretty big bet on that with Project Scorpio. We’re basically saying, ‘This isn’t a new generation; everything you have continues forward and it works.’ We think of this as a family of devices,” Greenberg said.
Price
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) wants the Project Scorpio “to be at a console price-point.” The Scorpio is expected to be priced at $500.
