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[Rösti]

I'm hoping to get some media assets of this soon, but the press site is currently being hammered.

 

[Wheatly]

How are games going to play on both a shitty laptop and a gaming desktop?

They dont - laptop players will get a shit broken game

 

[WouldYouKindly]

All these step up sony posts they already did neos skipping e3 this year for a reason them specs have made them do some adjustments

 

[Always-honest]

It comes with a controller

It does? What was that thread about then?

 

[Unknown?]

It's $299 bruh.

The 500GB is $299. 2TB is $399.

 

[Tagyhag]

Holiday 2017 is much farther than I thought they'd release it on, but all that wait means that they can probably drop it down to $399.

 

[Shifty Capone1]

A small hit? A GTX 1070, which is a 6.5 TF GPU, is $380 by itself.

"Small hit" in terms of Microsoft. They did just pay 26.2 Billion dollars in cash for LinkedIn. I have a feeling a lot the pricing will depend on how well their PC software sales are. That is money they wouldn't have been getting for the most part. I am willing to bet $399-$449. They won't make a mistake at $499 again. (Unless Sony does that first)

 

[qa_engineer]

So this is the console to end all future consoles eh?

This is the start of iterative hardware with near parity with entry to mid level PC parts.

 

[Gowans]

Fully in on this, I'm saving now.

Come on Nov 2017

 

[Auto_aim1]

Will it be HDR compatible?

Well since Xbox One S is, it definitely should be. Most high end 4K TVs are already HDR compatible so it should be affordable next year.

 

[AstroNut325]

Whoa... you have my attention MS. If you're not pulling that DRM crap again, I'm going to be a customer!

What about the RAM? Are they going with GDDR5X?

Edit:
Wait what? Holiday 2017? Why announce this early?

 

[DrM]

Wtf at no exclusive Scorpio games. That makes no sense.

It felt like a very rushed move from Microsoft. Too early....

 

[Lunafreya Nox Fleuret]

How will Sony respond to this? I'm very interested.

 

[Bsigg12]

Yes pls and ty.

Halo 6 is going to be incredible looking.

 

[NinjamicWZ]

That thing's bonkers, but I don't imagine I'll be able to afford it. Sony's up against the ropes with no Neo showing and this will run like wildfire through forums, comment sections, and youtube videos even if it's just words right now.

 

[Robbok]

Sounds like a Beast. I'm interested, depends on price and what sony will deliver.

 

[Izuna]

Sony is fucked if they stop Backward Compatibility tbh

 

[Zombegoast]

So Video Game consoles are now phones.

 

[Kurt Angle]

A FLOP is a floating point operation, i.e. a calculation involving a a non-integer. Think 3 / 2 = 1.5. That's a floating point operation. 6 TFLOPS means that the Scorpio can do 6 trillion floating point operations per second in ideal situations. It's a measure of speed.

explain to me in DBZ power levels

 

[Guevara]

Can you imagine how far from "TV TV TV XBOX ONE TV TV TV" Microsoft is by now? It's like a different company.

TV TV TV -> PC PC PC

 

[Long Division]

Why did they brag that it has 8 cores when that's the same as the Xbox One?

 

[ethomaz]

Zen = CPU
GPU = Vega?

MS bringing the big Guns

Polaris full (40CU).

Vega will have way more than 6TF.

 

[Don Lapre]

 

[GameSeeker]

Launching a console without showing the console. 16 months before release?

That's one way to do it. This is a huge win, or a massive fuck up. I'm going with option one.

Yes, pre-launching a product almost 18 months before availability definitely is risky (see "Osborne Effect" for details).

So skip the Xbox One S and wait for this. I'll go with a Scorpio and a Neo, boom.

If many Microsoft customers have the same reaction as the above poster, Microsoft risks not selling that many XB1S's as customers end up waiting for holiday 2017.

 

[jmdajr]

They should start renaming the consoles.

Xbox 2k 299.99
Xbox 4k 599.99

 

[fr0st]

PS4K will still out sell Scorpio

yep especially in europe and asia

MS might be able to break throught NA but the pricing is gonna be key.

 

[Newlove]

So every game on Scorpio will be compatible with Xbox One?

 

[capitalCORN]

This is going to bomb so hard. '4K gaming' should come with an asterisk.

 

[KissVibes]

Wtf at no exclusive Scorpio games. That makes no sense.

None of the VR shit they talked about will work on the regular Xbox One. VR barely works on the current PS4.

 

[tapedeck]

The salt is real up in here.

All you Nostradamuses saying 599 lol, it's over a year away and they want a competive price or why even bother.

Anywho I'm imagining KI4 on this beast HNNNNNNG.

 

[rokkerkory]

So is Scorpio a new console Gen?

We need to start stopping to think of generations going forward.

 

[Plywood]

A FLOP is a floating point operation, i.e. a calculation involving a a non-integer. Think 3 / 2 = 1.5. That's a floating point operation. 6 TFLOPS means that the Scorpio can do 6 trillion floating point operations per second in ideal situations. It's a measure of speed.

How does this compare to those 1070/80's and how will these 6 flops affect my wallet since there's so many of them?

 

[Scully Scully Scoo]

megabomb ULTRABOMB kamehameha spirit bomb

console gens are over, every game will be bc. gaming has changed

 

[Obscuritas]

Wtf at no exclusive Scorpio games. That makes no sense.

30+ millions of X1/X1s out there, that's why.

 

[jonno394]

Wtf at no exclusive Scorpio games. That makes no sense.

Ah, they actually said that? answers my previous question then.

 

[kinggroin]

Guys. GUYS.


Here's a secret.



You can go out today, and buy a system that will give you today what the Scorpio will next year.


www.newegg.com


You're welcome.

 

[Spaghetti]

Seems like a brute force attempt to win back market share.

 

[Jumeira]

Return of the king! Most powerful once again, its the best step to take.

"Chewie, we're home"

 

[Good Guy Gone Bad]

OP doesn't mention Uncompressed Pixels :/

 

[Curufinwe]

It's not odd if you consider their competitor is coming out with a new box this year

We don't know that for sure. PSVR is the only new Sony hardware scheduled to launch in 2016 right now.

 

[RowdyReverb]

It just sounds risky to relly so much on being the more powerful console and hanging on the 6teraflops.

Announcing it possibly 1,5 half years before releasing is also crazy.

The rationale makes sense. If they want to put dev kits out there, it's going to leak anyway if they don't announce it now.

 

[velociraptor]

Wtf at no exclusive Scorpio games. That makes no sense.

It makes perfect sense actually. This is a premium experience. No point dividing the fan base.

 

[BassForever]

I find it weird with nothing exclusive to scorpio and everything coming to Windows 10 I see no reason to get a Scorpio over just saving up for a gaming pc.

 

[SRTtoZ]

I'm just excited that consoles are taking a fucking LEAP for once. Give us beastly performance with a different SKU! This will force Sony to do similar I'd think.

 

[vpance]

I dont get Microsoft. Why would I buy an Xbox S now? I'm going to assume sales will slow down considerably.

With all your exclusives on Windows 10 now, a decent amount of people will move to PC.

I don't get the business strategy.

Xbox S is for casual gamers. Scorpio will probably be like $499+

 

[Bitch Pudding]

Announcing a fall 2017 console in pubic so that devs can start doing their job? Interesting strategy.

 

[GameAddict411]

Wtf at no exclusive Scorpio games. That makes no sense.

If that was the case, it will split the user base. I mean it's already doing that to some extent, but exclusively will just alienate current users.

 

[Ricky Ricardo]

1070 that cost 500$

Factually false.

$380 for base versions, $450 for Founders editions

 

[Pankratous]

Can someone explain the diffference in Scorpio vs original X1 in DBZ power levels?

 

[Father_Brain]

So every game on Scorpio will be compatible with Xbox One?

Unless I missed something, they pointedly only talked about BC.