We knew it and Microsoft is preparing a more powerful Xbox One with the code name Project Scorpio

And if a few minutes ago we talked about the official presentation of the Xbox One S now it's time to comment on another open secret of which until Now it was talked about and we have finally known details officially. We are talking about Microsoft's Project Scorpio.

And it is that in their conference within E3 the people of Microsoft has given details of their new development, of which they have affirmed that It will be the most powerful console that has ever come out, a machine that will arrive focused to stand up to the PlayStation 4 Neo.

This new console will be released in Christmas 2017, it will be prepared for virtual reality and will hit stores with a price that will be very we fear, it will not be affordable, in line with the powerful consoles at the beginning of their arrival on the market.

From Microsoft they have ensured that all current Xbox One games will work on Scorpio, both the original Xbox One and the Xbox One S and your new Scorpio have the same software development kit. It will be necessary to see if this backward compatibility is still fulfilled when it reaches the market.

According to Micrsooft, Scorpio will reach up to 6 teraflops, figures that make the power of the current Xbox One pale, which remains in 1.32 teraflops and in the same way gives a good review of the current Sony console, the PlayStation 4 that reaches 1.84 teraflops.

Thus, the power of this GPU is one of the most striking features of the new Microsoft console: the 6 TFLOPs are located above the 5.1 TFLOPs of the recently introduced AMD Radeon RX480 and just a notch behind the 6.5 TFLOPs offered by the also recently introduced NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070.

This new console will arrive designed to be compatible with virtual reality and to support the use of games with 4K resolutions (we will have to see how much there is truth and it does not occur to us how the current 1080p and the 60 pfs). Regarding the command, other capabilities or possible design of the console, nothing is known so far, so we can only wait until its release date gets closer.

A new console that arriving in 2017 would mean that the exclusive longevity of the current generation of consoles would not have been as long as that of its predecessors. And it is that the Xbox One was put on sale in November 2013, so that it would reach e years of life as a top-of-the-range console from Microsoft.

The question many are asking is whether these upcoming new consoles will reach the power level of PCs and if they won't be manufacturers thinking of launching periodic updates to their machines with improvements and additions to get closer to the performance of a computer as if it were changing a graphics card.

Price and availability

The console that will come out of this promising Project Scorpio will appear on the market during Christmas 2017, but it is the only thing that for the At the moment Microsoft has revealed to us, which has not wanted to give details about the price of what will be the most powerful console ever created according to its creators.

Via | Windows Central