Tag: project scorpio

  • What Would Make You Want to Upgrade Your Console?

    Yours truly back in June writing during Microsoft’s E3 presentation for the Xbox One X: …it feels like Microsoft is less interested in challenging Sony with this high-end console than harvesting their hardcore Xbox fans for yet another console purchase. I don’t doubt that this console will live up to its technical promises, but it…

  • Xbox E3 2017 Briefing Notes

    Every E3 has an Xbox press event, this year Microsoft is leading it off with a brief history of different resolutions that their hardware has supported. Or at least it has upscaled games to that. If you’re new to my writing, I’ll note here that I worked for Microsoft over a decade ago on the…

  • Xbox Scorpio Tech Details

    Eurogamer’s Richard Leadbetter has technical details of Microsoft’s goofy Project Scorpio. Unless Microsoft adds or changes something significant about the functionality of the console before it is launched, it just means a more expensive and more technically powerful Xbox console: Combining smart design with sheer horsepower, Project Scorpio hits the six-teraflop target set for it as E3 last year,…