New Xbox Scorpio Console Will Deliver "Really True 4K," Exec Says

Sony's PlayStation 4 Pro came out last week. Across the fence, Microsoft's Project Scorpio console is slated to arrive in holiday 2017. Now, Xbox executive Aaron Greenberg has discussed the upcoming Xbox console, saying it's capable of delivering "really true 4K."

"This will really bring the most powerful console you've ever seen," Greenberg said at this weekend's Xbox FanFest in Mexico City. "It will bring these really true 4K, really incredible visual games that we've never seen before on the console."

"People who have spent thousands of dollars on a high-end PC are getting that experience. How do we bring that to scale in a console in your living room? That's a big part of what Project Scorpio is about," he added.

Microsoft has said that all of its first-party games will run at a native 4K. "Any games we're making that we're launching in the Scorpio time frame, we're making sure they can natively render at 4K," Microsoft Studios GM Shannon Loftis said in September.

Microsoft announced Project Scorpio at E3 in June, but the company has not offered much in the way of specifics about the console since then. That may not change soon, as Greenberg said Microsoft is saving a good deal of significant reveals about Project Scorpio for 2017.

Earlier this month, Xbox engineering lead Mike Ybarra said Project Scorpio will "of course" support backwards compatibility for Xbox 360 games. The console also plays all Xbox One titles. According to Microsoft, there won't be any Project Scorpio-exclusive games--except for virtual reality titles.

Pricing for Project Scorpio has not been announced, but Microsoft has repeatedly referred to it as a "premium" device, so it likely won't be cheap.

Sony's PS4 Pro, which launched on November 10, sells for $400. Microsoft has said Project Scorpio is more powerful than Sony's console by a significant margin.

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"People who have spent thousands of dollars on a high-end PC are getting that experience."

"Trust us, we can do the same for a fraction of the cost because magic."

Lol really really true 4k... It will most likely deliver more native 4K games than the PS4 Pro, but don't pretend the Pro cannot and has not already delivered native 4K AAA games(Fifa 17, The Last of Us Remastered, Skyrim Remastered etc).

Hope they offer 1080p/60fps options, not going back to sub 30 crap.

Greenberg, Phil, Nelson. Less talk, more action, thank you.

At this point you seem to have run out of Scorpio talking points so you are just repeating yourselves and it's pathetic.

I think that we're in the middle of a campaign to bury the Pro from MS. The timing of this PR, a new wave of fire sales that include the slim for the first time, all old consoles on a huge firesale... They're trying to shift the momentum/mindshare and they've had since E3 to do it. Will be interesting to see how Sony reacts

Can't wait for true 4K next year. Thanks MS

Sony have been wise not to get into a price battle with Microsoft. They are still outselling the Xbox One 2 to 1 worldwide so why would they lose profit per console sold?

This.