Buy an Xbox One S now or wait for Project Scorpio? The doubt of many users
At E3 2016 Microsoft announced the arrival of the Xbox One S A slimmer, more powerful Xbox One, without this ugly external transformer which could be ideal for those looking for a next-generation console. Quite an attraction that Microsoft itself threw to the lions right at the end of the conference by announcing the Project Scorpio
And that the Xbox One S is a very good console and even an interesting UHD Blu-ray player. A 40% smaller console, with HDR support for games, 4K for the Bluray player, a Bluetooth controller compatible with Windows 10 and up to 2TB of memory... but Project Scorpio's shadow was already long.
A new console that we expect to see in late 2017, just over four years since the Xbox One arrived and a year and a little different from the Xbox One S. Is Microsoft killing its current console? Let's think that these are very short periods of time to exploit the life of a similar machine, something that can feel very bad for users who are they've spent their money on an Xbox One.
And we have to admit that despite later saying that with the arrival of Project Scorpio we will continue to support the Xbox One , the truth is that it is logical that efforts are focused on the new one and that the old machine receives more and more residual products.
This has been tried to qualify from different places by stating that Project Scorpio will be a different platform, not a new generation, living in peace with Xbox One, so much so that they will even have the same games and that the exclusive ones will arrive later."
Do we believe it?
The premise of Project Scorpio is that thanks to its enormous power it will be able to exploit virtual reality environments in a decent way, something that neither neither the Xbox One nor the Xbox One S can do without a good graphics and a suitable processor.
In this sense, it has been ensured that the Xbox One could last at least another seven years which is more or less the usual period of duration of a generation or so it has been up to now.
So far everything looks great but what will happen if developers start releasing better games on this platform by having better _hardware_?Obviously the Xbox One would receive _ports_ and we already know what happens in these cases: a noticeable drop in quality.
A console about five years old and that would already have its successor present… a time that maybe not given to amortize the cost of the Xbox One Sand that clashes with the fact that it is now when it is beginning to take advantage of all the potential that it offers since with the release of a console the games do not take advantage of all the quality that the machine can offer.
Which console did I buy?
As much as they try to justify coexistence, it is about two consoles of the same brand on the store shelf. So, which one do I buy? And note that the answer is not easy at all Firstly because you have to look at your pocket and secondly because you have to determine the type of user.
If we do a little memory these are the specifications of the Xbox One S:
- PRICE 299 euros
- DIMENSIONS 40% smaller (295 x 230 x 63 mm)
- WEIGHT 2.9 kg
- OUTPUT VIDEO RESOLUTION 720p, 1080p, 4K (HDR)
- CPU 1.75GHz AMD Jaguar Octa-Core
- GPU 12 compute units 914MHz
- RAM 8GB DDR3
- 1.4TF PERFORMANCE
- INTERNAL STORAGE 500 GB / 1 TB / 2 TB
- OPTICAL DRIVE 4K Blu-ray, DVD
- WI-FI Dual band, 802.11 a/b/g/n
- ETHERNET CONNECTIVITY Gigabit Ethernet
- PORTS HDMI 2.0a, S/PDIF, USB 3.0, Infrared port
- INTERNAL POWER SUPPLY
- Wireless VIDEO GAME CONTROLLER, redesigned and with Bluetooth support
If you're coming from an Xbox 360, don't have a console or are looking for a cheap UHD Blu-ray player the Xbox One S is a great option.For performance, design and above all for price. You will also have access to great titles to be able to enjoy a next-generation console.
Now if you already have an Xbox One, you are attracted to virtual reality and you do not particularly value any of the above circumstances, yours could be the wait for Project Scorpio. A more powerful machine (6 teraflops GPU and eight CPU cores, probably AMD Zen) but also noticeably more expensive, as is often the case with releases.
But at this point the question that remains in the air is if Microsoft has made the right decision situating the renewal so close of Xbox One and the departure of Project Scorpio. For many, including myself as a user, the release of a new machine so close will end up meaning the beginning of the end of Xbox One.On the one hand, because little by little the games will be released with the new console in mind and, on the other hand, because of the anger that they can provoke in users who, after making a significant outlay for a console like Xbox or Xbox One S, see it as the period of validity of the same in which it has to receive quality content, is drastically reduced.
From Redmond I'm sure that this possibility, which is not to the liking of users, they have it more than present, so they have always commented that their intentions with Project Scorpio are to offer a much more advanced machine than Xbox One S.
At this point _what do you think? Would you trust Microsoft again to buy a new console? Do you see the logical movement that leads to having a Project Scorpio console (or whatever it's called at the end) in stores at the end of 2017?_
