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Video of the Project Scorpio devkit

Sorry, I don't really think a devkit would have a fancy oled screen on the front.
But the (fake) renders are sleek as hell!
 
Will they keep some kind of screen on the retail unit? Not sure for what though, but it's certainly looking cool.

DF/Eurogamer should be having an article on this soon, right? :)
 
Imagine the retail version keeps this and it displays info like the time, # unread messages or other OS things.
 
Why do I feel like that stupid performance LCD screen is just there to make consumers believe they actually give a crap about performances?
 
kami_sama said:
Sorry, I don't really think a devkit would have a fancy oled screen on the front.
But the (fake) renders are sleek as hell!
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This is old news

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BY2K said:
Why do I feel like that stupid performance LCD screen is just there to make consumers believe they actually give a crap about performances?
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It won't be on the retail
 
Spider_Jerusalem said:
Nope. It's just for debugging/performance monitoring.
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I meant, if they were to put up a screen on the final unit, I wouldn't know what potential use one could find to make it worthwhile. Just looking cool might not be enough :)


BY2K said:
Why do I feel like that stupid performance LCD screen is just there to make consumers believe they actually give a crap about performances?
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I think the hardware team at Microsoft certainly does. I think the technicians at most hardware companies do. But then they need to be grounded to consider costs.
 
What exactly is the point of that screen on there? I can't imagine any dev actually relying on that for performance testing over on-screen tools.
 
if it can deliver, that would actually be a crowing point. We(PC gamers) run FPS counters on our games all the time. It would be nice to see console performance get that kind of attention so 30 FPS fluster cluck don't slip through the net.

If console gamers start being aware and demanding real performance as opposed to just get stuck with the worst versions of games.. it is good for gamers -bad for devs, but good for us. No more fast and loose builds being "ok" ideally.
 
I really hope Scorpio blows me away at E3. Everything seems great so far but the actual performance difference in third party games will be a driving factor for me.
 
kami_sama said:
Ok, I talked before really knowing what I was talking about. But really? A fucking OLED screen?
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Could be pretty useful, it could output information that wouldn't be displayed on screen like the console/log/stream output you don't see on screen or be used to display info likes frames or whatever. Maybe it could output any exception that happens (that doesn't cause the game that is running to crash).
 
I wonder if the final product will retain the buttons on the front? would be kind of neat if you could bookmark games or apps with them so when you wake the console it just launched that specific thing right away.

But I guess that wouldn't matter since you can wake with the controller and would need something to navigate the app or game anyway.
 
I think the dev kit looks cool and that OLED display looks pretty fucking rad, but I'm not sure how much actual utility you get out of such a small display. I'm sure there are way better tools to use to monitor your build and it seems more for checking more final/retail builds.
 
Sizzel said:
if it can deliver, that would actually be a crowing point. We(PC gamers) run FPS counters on our games all the time. It would be nice to see console performance get that kind of attention so 30 FPS fluster cluck don't slip through the net.

If console gamers start being aware and demanding real performance as opposed to just get stuck with the worst versions of games.. it is good for gamers -bad for devs, but good for us. No more fast and loose builds being "ok" ideally.
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But on PC you use the counters to optimize your settings. On console there's not that much to do about it.
 
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