E3 2017: Microsoft introduces Xbox Scorpio with the official name of Xbox One X

Last updated Jul 12, 2017 280

Along with Assassin’s Creed Origins, the presentation of Xbox Scorpio was a bit of Pulcinella’s secret of this E3 2017, mainly because its features had been leaked over the network for several months.

Eventually, Microsoft’s marketing has decided to promote on behalf of ” Xbox One X “, simply adding an X at the end of the name of the ” old ” console. As with PlayStation 4 Pro, this is not a real generation breakthrough, well with an intermediate release pointing to greater power and native support for the 4K Ultra HD.

In fact, Redmond did not spare, inserting inside the small case (comparative photos seem slightly larger than the controller) a 1,172 GHz GPU from 6 TFLOP, 12 GB GDDR5 with 320 GB/s wide of the bandwidth. On paper is much more powerful than the competitor, but you will need to see how much the developers will use their peculiarities.

Also, thanks to Supersampling, native 4K HDR games will be even better on 1080p TVs: in short, there is still a minimum leap of quality even for those who do not have a latest TV set. There is also the impingement of the Wide Color Gamut and Dolby Atomos.

The processor is the Scorpio Engine, equipped with over 7 billion transistors and which, to be able to be cooled, is equipped with a steam chamber and is able to handle the console’s energy resources in an advanced way. The greater the power will also improve the loading time of the games: less expected to move from one area to another.

The design of the case is pretty much the one of the Xbox One S and very similar to the dev kit: compared to the latter, it differs for the black color and the absence of the small display that displays the use of real-time resources (despite Microsoft, He would have guessed that there would also be a commercial version). In addition, the power supply remains internally.

The password was retro-compatible: as it was obvious, Xbox One X supports all titles of Xbox One, but also those of Xbox 360 already supported by its predecessor and some of the first Xbox. Many commercial titles will receive an update to support 4K HDR over the course of the year, just as it did for PS4 Pro.

Unfortunately, Microsoft proves stubborn and continues with its exclusive timing policy (Dragon Ball Fighter Z in the first place, followed by Metro Exodus, Ashen, and the interesting The Darwin Project) which, in fact, will never invoke anyone who has a Competition consoles to move to the newcomer. In addition, exclusive such as Forza 7 and Cuphead can also be played on PCs with Windows 10.