New Xbox Scorpio Console Will Deliver "Really True 4K," Exec Says

Every time I hear news about "Scorpio" or look at the E3 -teaser I feel this euphoric happiness...like a child on Xmas.

If its $500-$600 I'm in .. I'l probably be in no matter what the price to be fair !!

whats the point when all the best exclusives are with sony and nintendo ?

They will price it at $499-$599. Patcher is correct stating that it is suicide. But MS has the money to play with. Its not a big deal to them. They are cocky and arrogant enough to launch at said prices. Even though the past shows $499-$599 consoles don't sell in the long term. Only to the initial hardcore. We seen it with the PS3.

I personally think its going to come in at the $499 mark.

When over promising starts to become real dollar amounts and you realize it's not cheap.

6 TFLOPs, even paired with a weaker CPU, is ample to handle all the pixel pushing necessary in the GPU to produce a 4K native result.

The real question is, at what image quality level, and what performance?

Thus far they've really been focused on saying, "We asked our Xbox One developers what it would take to bring their games to Scorpio in native 4K, and 6TF was the answer."

That's great and all, but porting an XB1 game straight across from its 900p or 1080p incarnation to 4K isn't exactly difficult with that level of GPU.

That's your 6TF going to work right there on producing the native 4K version.

What I want to know is what sort of image quality presets we're going to see, if the speculated additional VRAM is enough for Ultra or 4K-proof textures, how much detail it can pump out, etc.

Because simply porting across Xbox One games to 4K isn't exactly a miraculous feat of engineering with that much overhead available... nor is it particularly exciting.

If we're simply looking at comprehensive native 4K patches for XB1 games, but still 30fps in the more complex titles and still no hard 1080p/60fps mandate, that's not much of a leap beyond the Pro's strategy.

The 6TF vs. 4.2TF lines up pretty well with 2160p native in Scorpio vs. 1440p to 1800p native on Pro, but doesn't leave a tremendous amount of additional processing heft for extras.

Let's be honest, unless it's $700 and equipped with the highly-doubtful Vega CPU - which is so different from Jaguar as to make seamless compatibility with non-patched XB1 games very difficult (really, compare the two parts - vastly different), it's not going to have a two-fold increase in frame rate.

Being as impartial and unbiased as possible, I'd warn people to keep their expectations in check.

Undeniably, if you want to experience those great exclusives from Microsoft's best first-party teams in their absolute peak form...well, put your Scorpio budget and a couple hundred extra towards a Windows PC.

@cuyiratug: Hey, isn't Kelly, Richard the one who made Donnie Darko? Such a great movie..

I find it crazy how a great cpu like the 6700k can cost as much as the PS4 pro or the other console's..and that's just ONE pc component...

I find it crazy how a great cpu like the 6700k can cost as much as a the PS4 pro or the other console's..and that's just ONE pc component...

I think this gives us good idea how much can be squeezed out of console optimization.

Put together i7 PC with GTX1070 and, while you will have more processing power/TFlops/... than Scorpio, you still don't have system that can be called 4K.

If MS pulls this without major sacrifice in IQ in these 4K games, it is real compliment to console efficiency. And I think they will pull this. Looking at how recent Frostbite games perform well on PS4Pro (article on DF), and how much faster Scorpio should be, 1st party games, properly optimized, should yield great results on Scorpio.

With consoles - It's not about the power .

It's about LOTS OF DIVERSE, REALLY GOOD EXCLUSIVES.

Don't believe me?

Ask the Playstation 2

I don't like that Microsoft is forcing 4k on all first party games. Even with a 4k TV I always choose the better gameplay option (when available) on the PSpro. I would rather have a smoother game experience with more effects and objects on screen than 4k visuals. It's pointless. HDR is great, but 4k resolution really isn't noticeable when your playing a game where you would normally sit. I hope Microsoft allows developers to decided how they want to use the system (like PS is doing) and not force 4k.

To me it's easier to charge a bunch of money for a new system that hasn't come out yet. With the next gens already out, it's going to be tough to put out at least $599.99 at this point. Most 4KTV's have apps that stream 4K content, so it isn't like we don't have any access to some sort of 4K stuff. Why would anyone pay that much for an upgrade basically, to a system we already have. That goes for PS4 Pro as well. Unless Scorpio comes out at a lower price than we are expecting and then causes the PS4 Pro to go lower, it seems completely stupid. Don't forget about Nintendo's new system. That's just my opinion.

GTX 1070 is already more powerful than this scropio, and in 2017 we will have newer GPU

Really super duper true

It don't matter if scorpio does become the most powerful console doest mean its gong to win the console war. Remember the ps2 it was weaker than the gamecube and the original xbox and it won the console war for that generation in the end it about the games and that's all i care about.

Well it's Greenberg so you can't believe a word of anything said. Wait and see I guess.

a 4k flip book maybe

Truly sounds amazing, day 1 buy