Xbox Scorpio E3 2017: Microsoft go full throttle against Sony’s PS4 Pro with announcement
THE XBOX Scorpio is in line to be one of the big announcement at E3 2017 and Microsoft have just signalled that they are going full throttle against Sony’s PS4 Pro.
The Xbox Scorpio is known to have the best specs of any console currently on the market and will likely arrive a few months after E3 2017 wraps up.
But while fans may have been impressed by the hardware details released ahead of the big LA expo, they’re now more hungry to learn about the price and design.
Fortunately, The Xbox briefing is set to kick off on Sunday, June 11, meaning their wait is nearly over.
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But until then, Microsoft are continuing to reveal just how Project Scorpio is looking to go full throttle against it’s Sony's PS4 Pro.
It has now been revealed that the Xbox Scorpio will boast a total of 9GB of memory available for Xbox One games.
The machine itself comes with 12GB of GDDR5 memory, meaning that 3GB is being held for system operations and other features, such as the native 4K dashboard.
The PS4 Pro, meanwhile, includes 8GB of GDDR5, coupled with an additional 1GB of RAM for background processes.
And this isn’t a report or other source online, it’s straight from Corporate vice president of the Xbox and Windows gaming platform, Mike Ybarra.
“We’ll keep tuning Scorpio to empower creators to share the best versions of their games. Unlocked extra GB of RAM for them, now 9GB of GDDR5,” he wrote on Twitter.
“Games that don’t use the full 9GB, the rest of the RAM will be used as a cache (making things load way faster, etc.). All games = better.”
This sounds like a good sign that native 4K will be a running possibility for all leading AAA Xbox One games on the Project Scorpio.
And as mentioned above, even if a title is not going for the top-end specs, it will still mean that normal games will run faster, as they’ll have access to the memory for faster caching.
It also lends more credibility to the latest reports that Star Wars Battlefront 2 will run on the Xbox Scorpio with some impressive specs.
Star Wars Battlefront 2 will allegedly run at native 4K and 60 FPS on Xbox Scorpio. That's according to Journalists at Windows Central, who have been the source of other correct information on the new console before its release.
The report goes as far as to state that Star Wars Battlefront 2 will run better than most PCs, which probably means that it will also offer a higher standard than the PS4 Pro.
Based on this new information, it appears that the Xbox Scorpio could be one of the best platforms to play the new shooter, beating the likes of the PS4 Pro who has been confirmed for 4K support on titles like Destiny 2, but not with 60fps.