Long live the consoles: Phil Spencer affirms that Scarlett will not be the last machine in the Microsoft catalog

A few days ago we echoed the first details that Microsoft brought to light related to Scarlett, the console that will arrive in 2020 to take over from the Xbox One X, Microsoft's flagship in the console panorama and that for now is the most powerful console on the market

Scarlett promises, at least on paper, to push the numbers achieved with the Xbox One X to mush and deliver some heart-stopping performance. The objective is to fight again with the PlayStation on duty (in this generation they have lost the battle) and incidentally try to stand up to the PC.

The problem is that all this power will arrive in 2020 and in that year the PC will have grown in the same way. A race between consoles and computers that for years seems to have a clear defeat, something that Phil Spencer from Microsoft does not share.

And it is that despite the voices that predict with increasing force that we are facing the last throes of the consoles, at least as we have known them up to now, the truth is that for some, among those found for example Phil Spencer, consoles still have a lot to say

And it is that Spence, one of the visible heads in the Xbox division, within Microsoft, has assured that Scarlett will not be the last Xbox consolePhil Spencer does not believe that neither the PC nor the arrival of the game in streaming with platforms like Google Stadia or his own, Project xCloud, can be enough tools to consider stopping launching new machines.

What could Microsoft be planning? We know very little about Scarlett. Regarding the hardware, a few brushstrokes. That inside it will have an AMD Ryzen 3000 processor under the Zen2 architecture at 7nm that will work together with AMD Radeon Navi graphics equipped with RDNA architecture and GDDR6 RAM memory. In this way you can work with games in 4K at 120fps and even with 8K resolutions if we have a compatible television.

On the other hand we know that Xbox Scarlett will be compatible with all Xbox One accessories, such as controllers and other peripherals. A compatibility that reaches the software, since Spencer himself announced that games from all previous Xboxes can be played on Scarlett

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Xbox Scarlett or whatever she finally calls herself, can be a great machine, there&39;s no doubt about that. But What can Microsoft have up their sleeves to make a next generation of consoles feasible? Especially when the lifespan of each generation is shorter.In this sense, Spencer affirmed that not as Scarlett&39;s successor could be, some doubts that, however, do not suggest that they have in mind the non-launch of another console."

Source | Giant Bomb Via | Eurogamer