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[Y2Kev]

Wtf at no exclusive Scorpio games. That makes no sense.

 

[Laevateinn]

Wow!!! 6 Teraflops!!

what's a teraflop

A FLOP is a floating point operation, i.e. a calculation involving a a non-integer. Think 3 / 2 = 1.5. That's a floating point operation. 6 TFLOPS means that the Scorpio can do 6 trillion floating point operations per second in ideal situations. It's a measure of speed.

 

[Bsigg12]

Not if you actually want to control games

It comes with a controller

 

[SwiftDeath]

Wow that's very good for a console. Curious on price.

Certainly not getting the S now though

 

[KingSnake]

Sounds really good. I like it because it means better PC ports too from next year onward. This explain also why Sony decided not to show Neo at E3.

 

[Ricerocket]

All I know is that it is the highest quality pixels.

For reals though, I don't understand why they'd introduce Xbox One S (slim) and then introduce the next Xbox that is out a year or more later so early in advance... they want to kill sales?

 

[Deadpool_X]

Very odd way to announce your new console for Holiday next year.

At the end of the show, with tiny details. All in all, I can't wait to see.

The console isn't ready to show yet. This was a teaser. Wait for the rollout next year.

 

[Xyphie]

No HBM2 memory . Looks like it uses GDDR5X @ 10GHz.

 

[ethomaz]

1070 that cost 500$

Is it using nVidia GPU this time?

6TF nVidia > 6TF AMD

6TF AMD will be like 10% better than RX 480???

 

[MuchoMalo]

FYI, that bandwith means that we're looking at either GDDR5X or a 384-bit bus. It also means that this thing is going to be pretty damn expensive, especially if that's an 8-core Zen we're talking about.

 

[mrklaw]

are the specs too far ahead of xbox one to realistically have games forward and backwards compatible? Wouldn't it hold scorpio back too much?

Although if its mostly 'just' 4k/60 games then that will suck up most of the added power so you could have

- scorpio 4k/60
- xbox one 900p/30

 

[Flintty]

Pretty exciting stuff. Not sure if I'll get one straight away, I'm more likely to pick up an S for my daughter this Christmas and maybe get a Scorpio a year after initial release. If I can resist.

 

[Strootman]

of course they don't care anymore about xbox one, they don't care if sales fall drastically

scorpio is their future

 

[CoG]

Weird strategy. It's going to crater Xbox One sales for a year and a half and Sonly will likely announce the PS5 for Spring 2018 at next year's E3.

 

[Tripolygon]

You seem adamant about that. What information are you privy to that we aren't?

Because we have 6TF GPUs currently that struggle to keep 30fps at 4K. But i'm sure there will be games if when optimized properly could run at 4K on Scorpio.

 

[Horp]

Can you imagine how far from "TV TV TV XBOX ONE TV TV TV" Microsoft is by now? It's like a different company.

 

[darkwing]

What VR headset will work with Scorpio? Oculus seems like the obvious choice, right?

yup, I'd say PSVR is dead

 

[Rockyrock]

holy shit.

didnt actually believe this...

 

[Zophar]

Damn, Microsoft really held back for a few years and now they're serving some serious crow.

How? By announcing almost nothing new, putting everything on Win 10, and announcing a redesign only to cripple it by announcing better iterative hardware coming out in 18 months?

 

[nelsonroyale]

1070 that cost 500$

This is AMD though...isn't a 1070 quite a bit more powerful considering it is Nvidia flops?

 

[CassidyIzABeast]

Phil made sure he got all his Gigglebops.

 

[wesleyshark]

Yes pls and ty.

 

[Fergie]

Announcing it super early with just some talk about specs definitely does show rushing though, while announcing a slimmer version at the same time.

Sony just confirmed Neo recently but supposedly won't be talked about at E3.

 

[b0bbyJ03]

Will it be HDR compatible?

 

[El_Chino]

Time to start saving!

 

[watership]

kinda dumb to reveal two consoles and have one blatantly better than the other lol

Omg so lol, right?

Only one is out in a month and the other is 17 months away and will probably be twice that price.

 

[comshoplesce]

Indead, what is the point of XBOX ONE S when SCORPIO next year?

 

[OdysseusVA]

Except it's not..?

Did you miss the price/model info?

 

[Newboi]

The whole play anywhere initiative is fantastic, but I feel that it kind of makes the Xbox Scorpio announcement less impactful. You can now play your more powerful xbox game on your even more powerful PC.

I understand there will be a huge price difference between a high-end PC and Scorpio, but people thinking of investing in a PC now have even more reason to.

 

[maxiell]

Seems like they were really behind Sony and surprised by Neo.

Really smart decision to announce though. Now you can spend the next year talking about how important power is and how you have the best console. That's a lot better messaging than "We announced nothing new for the Xbox One."

 

[RowdyReverb]

Impressive, but I feel right this second SONY are upping their specs.

Good thing they wrote in pencil, right?

 

[Noobcraft]

It just sounds risky to relly so much on being the more powerful console and hanging on the 6teraflops.

Announcing it possibly 1,5 half years before releasing is also crazy.

Microsoft could bump specs too, they did say "Over 6TFs performance". Scorpio is supposed to launch after the PS4K iirc.

 

[ClarkZuckerberg]

By Holiday 2017 I MIGHT have a 4K TV. So yay!

 

[NoLongerALurker]

Time to start saving up. Need the Scorpio, 4k monitor, and possibly a VR headset.

 

[JumPeRJumPzZ]

Fucking yes.


I really hope Battlefield 1 will get some Scorpio love even when the game out this year

 

[ricelord]

so whats the point of the xbox one s?

 

[t hicks]

Excited as hell for this TBH

 

[Thebeardofknowledge]

RIP PS4K. you tried.

PS4K will still out sell Scorpio

 

[Darryl M R]

Sony just Ctrl + C, and Ctrl + V.

 

[GameAddict411]

So is 6TF the number for the entire system added together or just the GPU?

It would be nice to know what CPU that is...

It has to be a new CPU. If it's the Jaguar CPU, then it will probably be the biggest bottleneck in console history lol.

 

[DSix]

So if I understand well, they'll release in holiday 2017 a console that's already beaten by midrange PC GPUs from 2016?

 

[Mihael Mello Keehl]

Man digital foundry threads gonna rock next year lol!

 

[kinoki]

I want to see what kind of software this will launch with. Next E3, I guess. Not much announced or showed today.

 

[velociraptor]

I hope this isn't the end of 'console generations' and hopefully this is a one-off thing.

I fear the 'smartphone' future. The analogy used by Sony was awful.

 

[Fox Mulder]

I love how they actually announced and gave details about this Holiday 2017 console and Nintendo isn't saying SHIT about their March 2017 console this week.

Nintendos choice to become irrelevant is sad really.

I'm excited for a new Xbox and glad they announced it this way.

 

[Asd202]

What DOES "beyond generations" mean though? Don't try his incremental upgrade bullshit

It means exacly this.

are the specs too far ahead of xbox one to realistically have games forward and backwards compatible? Wouldn't it hold scorpio back too much?

Although if its mostly 'just' 4k/60 games then that will suck up most of the added power so you could have

- scorpio 4k/60
- xbox one 900p/30

It makes xbone so redundant not left behind my ass.

 

[Strangelove77]

That's pretty terafloppy. I'll give it that.

 

[Blam]

"The most powerful console EVER... that plays the same games as the xbox one"

UWP works wonders.

 

[Trickster]

I hate this concept. We're gonna be stuck in a state of permanent cross gen games

 

[Apdiddy]

I was leaning towards getting a Xbox One S until this was announced. Now I'll just wait until 2017 and "Project Scorpio."

Microsoft manages to do moves that make me want to believe in their console then dash it immediately.