E3 2016 is coming out the gates with a huge bang. The Micrsoft Presser today has certainly shown improvements over last years lack luster event.
The most interesting thing to come out of today’s event is not the Xbox One Slim, but the announcement of Project Scorpio.
Scorpio is Microsoft’s version of the model refresh from Sony, Playstation 4.5/Project Neo.
Phil Spencer detailed the announcement, stating that Scorpio will bring true 4K graphics to the home market, with “6 Teraflops of power”. Now, the teraflop is an interesting way gauging the power of the new Xbox. Teraflops don’t always equal faster though. A Teraflop is the ability for a system to perform a trillion floating point operations a second. TL;DR more FLOPS, means more math can be done at once which usually equates to better graphic rendering, since all those shiny polygons are just maths. No word as to the actual CLOCK SPEED or the RAM, which should actually make for a better idea of performance. They probably don’t have a final spec’d out device ready. This upgrade will bring HD VR support as well.
Project Scorpio will also allow gamers to play the same games across all platforms, Xbox One, Windows 10 and Project Scorpio. Cross-platform play is also in the works.
We can expect to see more info at next year’s E3 as Microsoft isn’t planning on releasing Project Scorpio until 2017.