By Joe Osborne
“This is the console that developers asked us to build.”
Microsoft dropped a major bomb for the kicker in its E3 2016 keynote address. On stage, Xbox team team lead Phil Spencer revealed “Project Scorpio” with glee.
This is Microsoft’s recently-rumored upgraded console set to launch during Holiday 2017. And, with 6 teraflops of graphics power and an octa-core CPU, boy, is it a doozy.
The reveal video doesn’t tell us much about the console other than a few key specs and the idea behind the new mystery box. In short, this is a game console aimed at meeting or exceeding the next two major advances in gaming: 4K resolutions and virtual reality.
What’s in the box?!
Slow down, Spacey. Neither the Xbox team leads nor their partners presented in the dramatic video name-dropped Nvidia or AMD or anything like that. However, some vital, jargon-filled points were made about Project Scorpio’s capabilities.
For one, it houses 6 teraflops of graphical performance. To put that into perspective, that’s three teraflops shy of the new Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080, but nearly five times as many as the current Xbox One.
Whereas the rumored PS4 Neo is said to pack …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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