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[GHG]

As it should be. Sony fucked this up with the PS4 Pro.

Yep. Hopefully this will push Sony to sort that out now.

 

[GamingPheasant]

My understanding: MS baked DirectX12 to the silicon thereby allowing near-perfect transition between PC and Console with little overhead for the developers. Other optimizations allow for hitting 4K/60fps.

Very promising even if the first game shown is Forza.

 

[ironcreed]

Auto downsample to 1080P Oh boy!

Exactly and think of all the extra juice available for graphical fidelity. This is some highly impressive hardware.

 

[Curufinwe]

Damn. This thing is powerful and loaded with secret sauce. Just waiting on the preorders to open up.

 

[Shiggy]

If this launches in Europe this year and costs 499.99 EUR, that would be a huge surprise. If they really want to launch at that price and find success, they will probably focus on the US first. Europe comes later when the price is down.

 

[GreekWolf]

Supersampling for all games for 1080p TV owners.

Bless. Up.

This is exactly what I'm most excited for and will warrant a purchase.

 

[Matt]

No Zen and Vega haha.

Great specs but it is Ps4 pro for 2017. $399.

Yeah. If only someone had been saying that for a long time...

It's a fine system, and games will look great on it.

 

[Kaibutsu]

Man, Microsoft is throwing a lot of money at the Scorpio so I hope it pays off for them, especially since not everyone within Microsoft is sold on the financial viability of Xbox (At least that was the case in the past). I will probably pick one up but the estimated price of $500 seems very iffy to mainstream

 

[T.O.P]

449€ and i'm in

Thank god that they are keeping the 4k BD player as well

 

[H3xum]

So much sauce

I like it....for 449.

I don't think they will aggressively go at the same price point as the Pro, but man would that be savage if they did

 

[Marmelade]

So even the GPU is similar to the Pro's but @6TFlops, Polaris enhancements..

 

[FallenGrace]

I know nothing about tech but the implication is it's very powerful? Sounds extremely expensive.

 

[Spukc]

caveman no understand silly numbers

 

[nelsonroyale]

It dwarfs the Pro.

It will definitely offer improvements, but mostly in resolution. To me that is a Pro Plus.

 

[MetalliCabombination]

Pretty much on par with expectations.
Not pushing me to buy it, i mean i would if i had an atmos setup or a freesynch monitor but this wont push me over with xb1's current library.
Anyone know how this compares to a 6600k/1070 oc setup?

 

[malfcn]

Sounds good.
Got my interest.

 

[Outrun]

very impressive stuff

 

[Digital Savior]

Will pre-order. E3 cannot come soon enough.

 

[Kilau]

So it's not really THAT much powerful...

Like, it's basically Xbox Pro-er.

I think it's significantly more powerful. It's all in how they use it.

 

[Papacheeks]

He's saying it's basically an RX 480 GPU wise...nice

That's what is essentially in the pro, just down clocked.

 

[GraveRobberX]

About the price...

They some how have to get $399.99, maybe $429.99-449.99

Anything higher is DOA

 

[Ocelott]

Yep. Hopefully this will push Sony to sort that out now.

Not until the PS5

 

[MontyBrown]

Uh its pretty big step.

Not big enough for me. I didn't think PS4P was a big enough leap, so this extra bit of power doesn't do it for me either.

Happy to wait for the real jump next time around for both.

 

[BeforeU]

Man I am in, i am so in.

 

[gofreak]

The CPU sounds very much like a tweaked Jaguar - they don't want to say it's Jaguar for PR purposes, but sounds like it effectively is.

 

[BradleyLove]

But some posters were insistent on Zen + Vega? I mean, they spoke to people in the know.

 

[Tonyx]

Specs are pretty good. They claimed a better hardware than PS4 Pro and they delivered.

Now we'll have to see how they use this power (i.e. which games are coming on it).
And the price, of course.

Boys this generation might be worth a 3-ways multiplatforming!

 

[JimiNutz]

MS took the secret sauce jokes to heart and have literally filled the Scorpio to the brim with delicious sauce.

Secret sauce everywhere! Let's get messy.

 

[Osahi]

Well, some of those specs are mouth watering, but the price will be in 'yikes'-territory. As I don't own a 4K, and allready have a PS4 Pro (mostly upgraded for VR performance) and a standard Xbox One that barely sees any usage (only 'recent' exclusive that was up my alley was Forza Horizon 3. I'm not a huge Gears or Halo fan), I don't think I'll double dip. Xbox One has been such a disapointment to me, even though they started pretty good on the exclusives front in year one/one and a half.

 

[RBH]

 

[Barzul]

Depending on the exclusives at E3 might be tempted to trade my Pro in for this. Might.

 

[MarveI]

Man what a disappointment this was. A lot of hype and nothing else. It's become very synonymous with them lately. Can't even muster any excitement for E3 no matter how much they hype that too. And I was really excited for Scorpio. Turns out it's just a slightly better Pro.

I mean you waited so long for Jaguar ? Why not wait a year more and go for a variation of Zen or something truly beast worthy.

 

[PuppetMaster]

Jaguar ...

Welp. That ends that line of speculation. Also suprised they went with only 40CU GPU ... Seems most of its advantage over the 36 CU ps4pro is just from the higher clocks. Hope they have good cooling to backup those clocks!

 

[shandy706]

So it's not really THAT much powerful...

Like, it's basically Xbox Pro-er.

It's significantly more powerful.

RX 480 level GPU, 12GB RAM with much bigger throughput...that's a lot...don't let anyone downplay it.

Vapor style APU cooler.

 

[TheQuickBrownFox]

Forza screenshot from the article

This is the part I'm up too, and to hear him mention that CPU was only at max 70% running native 4K is pretty astounding.

 

[Joelstinton14]

Whilst it is nice to see someone pushing the tech in the console space, the price and the lack of first party software makes this a pretty redundant console for me. I can't really see the point in it - it is going to be a extremely niche product. Which i guess is ok. Feels more like a passion project rather than a commercial one.

 

[Pif]

I was hoping for more footage.

Also 4GB ram for OS? Are we looking at windows 10 ???

 

[Kagero]

Not much an improvement over the pro :\ At least we will know that the price will be competitive with these specs.

 

[Kssio_Aug]

Native 4k for current gen games? I wasn't expecting that, to be very honest. And no way I'd believe they would manage to port Forza that easily.

This thing seems to be a beast. It seems amazing!! I wasn't expecting this much, honestly.

 

[SlipperyFishes]

Impressive, but I don't like how this is basically DF advertising for Microsoft :/

It's hardly advertising unless you count every analysis they do as such. They got the exclusive, much like how other sites get exclusives on stuff but in this case DF are actually able to explain without hyperbole.

 

[sazzy]

Digital Foundry really need to hire competent technical writers for their videos.

 

[MegaSackman]

Obviously my fault but I expected some new footage of, at least announced, games.

 

[Ronny93]

Finally a console which does not have crappy hardware. Love it and hope never too read anymore the numbers 900p or 720p

 

[terrible]

I just finished watching. It sounds good to me. Microsoft is definitely not ignoring 1080p users with this which is pretty important for me since I don't have a 4K TV yet. If they get the price right I'm in and it'll become my 3rd party game console of choice.

 

[Theorry]

Supersampling for all games for 1080p TV owners.

Bless. Up.

Jup thats so great.

 

[dancrane212]

Good quality texture filtering will make a big difference to a large number of Xbox One titles, where typically 4x anisotropic tends to be the balancing point chosen by developers. The leap to 16x, enforced at a system level by the back-compat engine, is a huge boon, especially in concert with the complete lack of screen-tear and smoother overall performance. More good news: this new feature extends to Xbox 360 games too.

Better than I expected; this is fantastic.

 

[thekiddfran]

specs are excellent now we just need a price and games

 

[Dehnus]

So it's not really THAT much powerful...

Like, it's basically Xbox Pro-er.

The power handling of this custom core, and the way it handles draw calls makes it a lot more custom than one would say on on first glance. Basically it has some ways to offload a lot of the calculations. But want to see how this holds up first. Like how does Fifa 18 look .

 

[HeelPower]

This is such a non-reveal.

Makes sense though,they wouldn't simply first reveal the actual box and demonstrate actual games in anything short of E3.

 

[inki]

Good on MS for pushing things forward. Not as exciting as I thought it would be but some good ideas. I'm excited to see how Sony responds (as in new PS in a couple years). I suspect the price to be $599 for the console.