Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is expected to launch the Xbox Project Scorpio at the end of 2017. The Project Scorpio will be the most powerful console ever built by the company. And it might be the last console generation.
The Project Scorpio will play video and games in 4K resolutions. The console will play games and video in HDR.
We have rounded up everything you need to know about the Scorpio.
Microsoft Project Scorpio
The Project Scorpio will use a custom GPU designed by Microsoft by working with AMD, according to a report from Digital Foundry via PolyGon.
The GPU will consist of 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. The console will deliver the six-teraflop of processing power.
The console will have 12 GB of GDDR5 RAM and 326 GB/s of memory bandwidth. It will come with a 2.5-inch 1TB hard drive. Unlike the PlayStation 4 Pro, the Project Scorpio will come with an Ultra HD Blu-ray drive.
More importantly, the Scorpio will be backward compatible with Xbox One games. Players will be able to play every single Xbox One game on the Microsoft’s most powerful console.
Last Console Generation
Aaron Greenberg, Microsoft’s head of Xbox games marketing, has said 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 told Engadget in an interview.
Scorpio Price and Release Date
Xbox head Phil Spencer wants the Project Scorpio “to be at a console price-point.” Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is expected to offer the console at around $500. Many analysts and tech gurus believe that the company should not price it higher than $300.
The Project Scorpio is expected to arrive in Holiday 2017.
