The Xbox Project Scorpio, the most powerful console ever built by Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), is set to be launched at the end of this year.
The Project Scorpio will play games and videos in the 4K resolution. The console will play games and video in HDR. It will feature a custom GPU designed by Microsoft in conjunction with AMD, according to a report from Digital Foundry via PolyGon. The GPU will have 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 console will deliver the six-teraflop of processing power.
The Project Scorpio will feature 12 GB of GDDR5 RAM and 326 GB/s of memory bandwidth. It is expected to come with a 2.5-inch 1 TB hard drive. Unlike the PS4 Pro, the Project Scorpio will contain an Ultra HD Blu-ray drive.
In addition, the console will be backward compatible with Xbox One games, meaning that players will be able to play every single Xbox One game on the Project Scorpio. As you may already know, the Xbox One is backwards compatible with the Xbox 360 games. However, we do not know yet whether the Project Scorpio will be backwards compatible with the Xbox 360 games.
Aaron Greenberg, the boss of Xbox marketing, said in an interview with Engadget that the Project Scorpio might be the last console generation. He believes that our future “is 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.
Project Scorpio Price and Release Date
Earlier reports suggested that the Project Scorpio will be a premium and expensive device. But later Xbox boss Phil Spencer confirmed that Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) wants to the Project Scorpio “to be at a console price-point.”
The Project Scorpio is expected to carry a price tag of around $500. According to some people in the video gaming community, the console will be offered at no more than $300.
The Project Scorpio is expected to arrive in Holiday 2017.