A highly credible source recently spoke to me about the nature of Project Scorpio, helping to confirm many of our previous suspicions about the console.

Project Scorpio is the codename for Microsoft's next Xbox console. Detailed at E3 2016, Project Scorpio will sport 6-teraflops of computational power when it launches next year, easily superseding Sony's 4.2-teraflops PlayStation 4 Pro to become the most powerful console ever made.

Xbox chief Phil Spencer described how Project Scorpio is designed to power 4K games and "high-fidelity VR." Now we have a better idea of how Project Scorpio will achieve 4K visuals in its games, and also maintain its promise of having no exclusives vs. its Xbox One sibling.

Our source told us that Project Scorpio dev kits will be a "one-stop shop" for all Xbox platform development. Project Scorpio will be able to mimic an Xbox One at a hardware level so developers can test how their games scale between different power levels. This system is known internally as Project Helix.

Effectively, the Xbox team have streamlined development across Windows 10 Store PC, Xbox Scorpio and Xbox One, allowing developers to easily and efficiently deliver a game for all three endpoints in a single package.

When a game is being run by a customer, it will detect the hardware making the runtime request and unpack the correct assets dynamically. Since UWP games on PC already support most Xbox features, including controllers, there will be a minimal amount of work involved when bringing PC UWP games to the Xbox consoles. Our source told us that games such as Gears of War 4, ReCore, Rise of the Tomb Raider and Forza Horizon 3 are already using this system on Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs today. There's also a fair chance the new Call of Duty on the Windows 10 Store is also using this system to prepare for Scorpio, but without seeing the app's manifest, there's no way to know for sure.

So, what does all of this mean? If developers are making games for Project Scorpio, they are already making games for the Windows 10 Store and vice versa. Native third-party UWP Windows 10 Store games such as upcoming titles like GWENT: The Witcher Card Game, Cuphead and Everspace will be 4K Scorpio-ready purely as a result of being developed for PC.

http://www.windowscentral.com/project-scorpio

This is very interesting. I like the premise of Scorpio thus far.

Hopefully this means that UWP games on Win10 will be better optimized at launch.

I can assure you that that highly credible source is indeed very credible. After all it's a marketing rep working for Microsoft. Can you get anymore credible while leaking?

If Gears 4 and Forza H3 are any indication MS is very close at achieving full scalability.

Lets see how third party games will behave.

Its good teams are building even more middleware to allow better scalability between platforms.

That one is still having issues today. Gears 4 is solid though.

Even though the source could be not highly credible I don't see much reason to doubt the info.

Seems really good if true.

So credible it's incredible!