Looks great, though I'm curious as to how they're going to show case it at E3 with everyone tuning in via streams etc. Sony had trouble doing it with the Pro at their reveal conference, I figure the best bet would be to simply keep the focus on games with a little tag at the bottom detailing the specs e.g. 4K/30fps etc per gameplay vid.
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Windows Central: This is what Xbox games look like on 'Project Scorpio' (Tech Demos)
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Yautja_Warrior
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Hopefully they will have some games that look graphically impressive, so they don't have to rely on talking about 4k and HDR too much because like you say, it doesn't demo well unless you can see it in person.
That doesn't answer the question i'm musing over...considering MS are not really mandating devs to even take advantage of Scorpio to begin with, and even then, resolution bumps as shown in these pictures are not going to be handled by MS.
Like Pro, they would have to be handled by developers who will likely only put in the bare minimum.
Scorpio's specs like Pro will be taken advantage of in this way by developers(higher res, higher res textures ect), this is how they are taken advantage of by default.
The article wrong;y assumes that these pictures are somehow not taking advantage of Scorpio's power with the IQ boosts and texture improvements, when they are.
My question has to do with whether or not that is enough for MS to sell this unit considering how much Pro struggled doing the same, and whether or not the concept of the iterative unit can ever truly be something big with developers hands tied in this manner.
DarkConfidant
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Lmao I was going to say something along these lines.
"Look how cool and totally worth the price our new hardware is: A bug! This Palin-looking woman!"
Wowfunhappy
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That's a cool artstyle, if this was an actual game my interest would be super piqued. I'm quite disappointed.
You were going to say that about a presentation shown to MS development partners? That seems...odd. But I've seen stranger stuff on GAF so I guess it's not that odd.
Deadly Cyclone
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The recent update to the XBO dash got rid of 90% of the lag. Have you tried that?
Night.Ninja
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Hopefully they will have downloadable videos of the games after the e3 press conference
rokkerkory
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Maybe MS will do similar type of comparo during e3 for the games. Sliders in real-time showing the differences and also side by side. Kinda like DF vids.
Can't wait... difference is there just with simple res bump and it's just beginning of what system can do.
Can't wait... difference is there just with simple res bump and it's just beginning of what system can do.
Spyder_Monkey
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Honestly, it doesn't look that much better.
Mister Wolf
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New Bioshock confirmed.
Fredrik
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These are perfect examples why I'm starting to think they should focus on framerates instead. At first glance I see no difference between these pics, like at all. If the new 5x more powerful hardware was put to good use I should instinctively scream wow when seeing how Scorpio games will look, even on my phone.
Time to start hoping for a video settings menu so I can tweak the games as I wish.
Time to start hoping for a video settings menu so I can tweak the games as I wish.
There's only so much iterative units can improve on having to target software for hardware much weaker. That's unfortunately just a fact of life.
Marketing making people feel the difference is bigger than it is both Sony and MS's challenge.
panda-zebra
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Doubtful. The add-ons brought their own, often unique titles. These new machines bring exactly the same games just better. If that matters to people, they will consider them. The add-ons were the real half-steps, companies wanting to hold onto their existing playerbase by tethering new hardware to old.
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OMG!
They have a new exclusive:
"The Misadventures of Sarah Palin: Defender from the Kenyan Tax Terror."
As with Pro to an extent I'm expecting a ton of myhem in comparison threads and the like around this.
I see the difference - and it looks quite nice to me, but from my experiences on PC I'm used to seeing games across different specs and have a believe decent experience of what to look for.
But as with Pro it's obvious that games that have to look decent on XB1 aren't going to look like totally different games on Scorpio and many will find the upgrade to not be what they were expecting (interms of visuals - hopefully performance boosts would be more apparent).
I see the difference - and it looks quite nice to me, but from my experiences on PC I'm used to seeing games across different specs and have a believe decent experience of what to look for.
But as with Pro it's obvious that games that have to look decent on XB1 aren't going to look like totally different games on Scorpio and many will find the upgrade to not be what they were expecting (interms of visuals - hopefully performance boosts would be more apparent).
I don't think there's anything wrong with the systems themselves, but I feel like the hype is pretty out of control for what amounts to modest upgrades of existing graphics.
Fredrik
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It works on PC, doesn't it? My 980ti is almost 6 TF, I can run everything at 60fps with better graphics than on XB1 and PS4. Will I get to do that on Scorpio? I doubt it since all they brag about is 4K and supersampling.
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