Microsoft has been struggling in one way or another since spring of 2013. Ever since the rough unveiling of the Xbox One, they’ve been in catch-up mode behind the PlayStation 4. With the impending unveiling of Project Scorpio, Microsoft has a chance to make up some lost ground. Whether or not they can do it is, for the most part, up to them. Here are some ways they could leave a big...
For Microsoft's Project Scorpio to be successful – whatever it's called, however much it costs – it needs some flashy games that squeeze every ounce of power out of it. That means developers need a solid developer kit that not only helps them get their games running on the new system, but makes it easier. The details we've heard previously seem to make a good case for that, and...
How developers make use of Project Scorpio’s power is up to them, Microsoft says. That sounds good, but how far does it go? Microsoft’s Xbox engineering lead Mike Ybarra expanded on this on Twitter on Friday. Ybarra said that “developers are free to choose how they use the power of Project Scorpio for games,” adding that Microsoft has “no requirements limiting frame or fidelity.” A...
The last 10 years have been educational for Microsoft in terms of hardware. Manufacturing errors cost them over a billion dollars with the Xbox 360, while manufacturing fears helped to hamstring the Xbox One – along with a host of other issues. But on the other side of things, the Surface Book and Surface systems have been well-received by critics and consumers alike. With those major...
Getting someone to actually buy a game console and then to sit down and play it is important, but first you have to have someone making games to actually play on it. As Microsoft heads toward the fall release of Project Scorpio, the upgraded version of the Xbox One, developers are on the console maker’s mind as much as gamers. Talking to Gamasutra in an extensive interview about the...
The new reveal of Project Scorpio’s specs told us a lot. We know pretty conclusively that Microsoft is getting ready to offer up a beastly monster of a machine that would give Horizon Zero Dawn‘s Aloy a run for her money, if you’ll forgive the cross-platform metaphor. But there’s a lot we don’t know yet that will make a big difference as the system hits the market. What’s in a name?...
Project Scorpio’s in the news this week as Microsoft finally took the wraps off of the upcoming powerhouse of a console’s specs. One bit of news that flew in with the horsepower numbers is the continued decision to nix the Kinect port on the back of the console. Like the Xbox One S before it, Project Scorpio is the second in the Xbox family recently to drop the Kinect port. Microsoft...
Eurogamer and Digital Foundry got an early exclusive look at what Microsoft’s cooking up with the upcoming Scorpio (which surely isn’t its final name, right?). As part of the larger reveal, Microsoft told the outlets that Project Scorpio will not only be 100 percent backwards compatible with Xbox One games and support the growing Xbox 360 library but that it would make all of those...
We don’t have a name, a look at the outside of the box, or a price tag to hang on it, but we have a much better idea of what’s inside Project Scorpio following Eurogamer‘s extensive and exclusive reveal today. We’re likely going to be plowing through all the data for a while, but here’s what we know so far. This thing is a beast. No way around it. Project Scorpio, like the Xbox One...
In just about 24 hours, we'll know a lot more about Project Scorpio, Microsoft's successor to the Xbox One. Industry insiders said earlier this week that we'll likely learn more about the system, and Eurogamer's Digital Foundry team has confirmed they'll have the hard specs on Thursday. To clear up the speculation: @digitalfoundry will have an exclusive Xbox Scorpio reveal on @...