Project Scorpio’s specs could be revealed sooner than you think

By Emma Boyle

It’s looking increasingly less likely that we’re going to have to go through the long wait until E3 2017 to get some solid details on Microsoft’s upcoming Project Scorpio console.

According to a report from Windows Central, a “major gaming outlet” has visited Microsoft for details on the console’s internals “ahead of a planned exclusive blowout of coverage.”

At the beginning of March, head of Xbox Phil Spencer stated that Microsoft was looking into revealing the console’s specs ahead of its June 11 E3 showcase as “doing everything at E3 would be difficult.”

As early as this week

Windows Central is suggesting that the specs could actually be revealed as soon as this week, but it’s worth taking that with a pinch of salt for the moment.

It doesn’t, however, seem entirely unlikely that we could see the specs for the console revealed in the next few weeks, leaving Microsoft free to dedicate its E3 presentation to showing exactly how these specs translate into real-world performance.

Already we know that Project Scorpio will run at 6 teraflops and will drop the Xbox One’s ESRAM for 12GB of GDDR5 memory. The spec reveal, therefore, would clear up any CPU …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming