Microsoft Announces Project Scorpio Console

@halvedlife: Consoles are not made in a day, they can not be changed on a spur of a moment. These devices are in the making for years (yes years). If Sony plans on shipping the Neo this year, they will have already agreed upon the chipset with the manufacturer and the manufacturer will have started the process to mass produce. Those chips will have to be produced well in advanced so they can be built into the mobo and the whole device can be built. All so that millions can be ready to be shipped at the available date. Sure small software type changes could be made (bump up clock speed like MS did with XB1).

Ms has shown their hand because if Sony wants to ship this year with Neo it is just simply to late in the game to make major changes. This is also why you should never buy a console just because it has the best graphics performance, you should by the one you like the games the most of (or buy them all and play all the games you fancy). In the end it means nothing if it is faster or slower the the Xbox as long as the consumer is happy with the product.

@halvedlife: A lot of people are forgetting Sony has tricked MS into tipping their hand early before. A supposed "leak" of the PS4's specs released some months before E3 some years back to which MS countered with their specs for the Xbox One...which turned out to be significantly weaker than the actual specs of the PS4.

Now the NEO is meant to just be a boosted PS4 and not a brand new console, so maybe what we've heard of its specs are true, but there is no way "1080p ONLY!" Sony would hear this announcement and not do anything about it. This is probably why they decided not to announce the Neo at E3. They wanted to see what MS had first.

@stewart24: AMD has a card out now that does almost 6 TFLOPS for less than $200, so why do you think Scorpio will be $599?

@stewart24: Please stop with the MS has more money than Sony waffle! Sony has the cash, they are both giants, MS can't afford to buy out Sony and Vice Versa. Big corps don't just throw money at things because they can lol and if they do and it backfires,bthat's how subsidiaries are shut down especially if Shareholders/Investors keep losing money coz they are the one's with the most power to influence a shut down. This is a huge and ballsy gamble on MSs part, they need to win some of the console market share back and Scorpio could be the answer. I hope they compliment that power with alot of top AAA exclusives.

@stewart24: They have the cash now. Haven't you heard? The PS4 is a roaring success, and the rest of the company is back in the black.

@misaelcarrillo: I agree. I guessing console will be $599. And the games will be 4K but it will be up scaled and not true 4K. That's still a massive leap from where we are now where the average game is at 900p

@Spartan_418: Most likely Microsoft will have patches for those games.

@Spartan_418: ya but right now you need a beefy PC to run those things. If consoles can handle them at 60 I think we are doing just fine.

@jshah500: You would think that it will come out before holyday 2017 but you never know and they might be targeting holyday 2017 for Scorpio. As for the price I can't see that going for more than $500, and they might lower the prizes of their other older Xboxes and put them at $400 hundred dollars or less so that they can sell Scorpio for less than $500 dollars.