Probably.

It's gonna destroy the Pro in every way hardware wise. It's not an upgrade like the Pro, it's pretty much a next gen console.

I'm a self-confessed Sony boy but I am all up for some competition because it makes Sony have to step up. I'm really impressed with the fact that Microsoft improved the Xbox One S on many levels(size, internal power supply, etc, although the OG PS4 had these features on launch) and that they included an UHD blu-ray player. I'm probably in the minority but I would have bought a PS4 day fucken one had it have come with one.

I don't think the Scorpio will turn the tide because it still will essentially be tied to the Xbox One library, will cost much more than the PS4 Slim/Xbox One S and that Sony has better and more exclusives. The Scorpio will most like play multiplatform games at a higher resolution/frame rate than the Pro but that remains to be seen as the checkerboard rendering that it supposedly a Sony exclusive feature is very impressive and costs less(performance-wise) than true 4K rendering.

This is an animated picture comparing native rendering, checkerboard and upscaling(must be clicked on to animate):

Useless use of flops.
Scorpio could be 4.12(4.2?) Teraflops just like the Playstation 4 Pro and be twice as powerful.

DDR5 doesn't exist.
GDDR5 does.

12Gb is also a fairly odd number, likely using a 384bit memory bus, which means it will have an expensive memory subsystem that requires a ton of board traces and PCB layers.

No information on this currently. Only rumor and speculation.
Scorpio might just continue to use Jaguar.
ZEN based cores are going to be more transistor heavy than Jaguar.

I think that is an accurate assumption. Microsoft has been flogging the 4k advertising hard with the Xbox One S.

Bottlenecks typically aren't as much of an issue for consoles.

Scorpio will be the most powerful console of this generation.

Also likely not to be enough of a generational leap over Vega+HBM2+8-Core Jaguar to be worth bothering with.
Stacked TLC NAND is coming down in price, so hopefully they opt for that over mechanical storage next generation.

Based on what? Flops? What does flops have to do with resolution?

Scorpio could end up as the lead platform for many multiplats.

The Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 had identical amounts of memory.
The Xbox 360 just had more usable memory thanks to a less memory hungry OS.

You are correct that the Playstation 3 had a slight edge in theoretical performance... But in the end, it never amounted to anything.
The Xbox 360 showed it could keep up with the Playstation 3 with Halo 4.

If you look at the technical achievements of Halo 4, it was competitive with the majority of 1st party Playstation 3 games.

We have no idea about the GPU. The only thing we have is the amount of flops, which by itself is an utterly pointless metric.

False. Wikipedia is as accurate as the citations that the Wikipedia articles are built form.
Failure to check those to verify the sources of information is not Wikipedia's fault. It is the user.

At-least we don't hear "GDDR5" every thread now. :P

The PC just plays. Everything.

No.

Ironically it's the Playstation 3 Emulator that is farther along in development on PC and not the Xbox 360.

Microsoft is also not just purely emulating Xbox 360 games.
They are virtualising the software ecosystem and relying on abstraction and repackaging of the games along with some low-level emulation.

There is zero reason why Sony cannot do the same on the Playstation 4, except they don't have the software development resources that Microsoft has.

They are leading the market. So why would they waste their time?
This is why competition is a wonderful thing.

Actually the Xbox One's CPU tends to perform above the Playstation 4's CPU to a larger extent than the clockspeed implies.
The eSRAM and DDR3 memory seems to give it an edge in latency there, especially during mis-predicts.

This interests me as well.
Even if they were to try and "Emulate" the eSRAM in GDDR5X memory, there will be a large latency penalty, I don't see it being feasible.

The other tactic they could take is to retain the eSRAM and use it as an L4 cache for the CPU in "Scorpio Mode" and eSRAM in "Xbox One S mode".

Microsoft are pretty good at software engineering though, so I wouldn't put it past them coming up with a software solution, but I am keen as pie to know how they do it.

The CPU can use the eSRAM as well. (Not that there is any point.)
However the CPU has to take a long trip through system memory to achieve it, which works out to be slow and pointless.

They better not. Halo 3 first. It was my favorite game in the franchise.

Off topic but I keep hearing about hopes for a halo 3 remaster. I ask why? We already got that game in mcc. What I want is for them to either just not have a halo this year and go all out on making 6 the best game they can. Or to make a sequel to the most underrated game in the series: odst. show us they can make a good campaign again before 6. 4 was great but guardians was the worst in the series.

It was the Halo game that put the Xbox 360 on the map.

It was one of the most popular Xbox Live games for years and one of the best selling Xbox 360 games of all time at 14.5 million copies sold. (GTA 5 did 18 million on the 360.)

It had a great campaign, fun multiplayer, user-created content thanks to forge and it actually had allot of great effects employed in it's game engine, such as HDR, tessellated water, double buffering and other dynamic effects etc'.
It did allot of firsts, right.

The Master Chief Collection only took Halo 3 and rendered it at 1080P... Unfortunately some of the assets don't seem to have transitioned over perfectly... Especially the sprites and sky boxes.
And well. The Master Chief Collection was a bug-ridden unplayable mess for months after launch anyway, it's multiplayer is almost dead as a door nail.

ODST was also supposed to be a campaign "expansion" for Halo 3 (Also known as DLC for you young wipper snappers), it even uses Halo 3's game engine and  multiplayer. (Minus fire fight.)

I would like ODST to be done at the same time as Halo 3 to be honest and bundled together... Halo 3 though turns 10 years old this year, hence why it should receive the Anniversary treatment... They should release Halo 6 next year so we don't get another aweful Halo-5-like game again, Australian swear-words  cannot describe how dissapointed I was with that game.

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By the way. We are getting a Halo game this year. Two in-fact. Halo 2 and Halo Wars the Definitive edition.

Microsoft might also wake up and release the only Halo game never to arrive on an Xbox console on Xbox. Or pigs might fly apparantly.

Thanks. I was waiting for your reply to this thread. Your knowledge is always welcome. 

My word, Pemalite. Do you work for a computer company? I have been on this site (and lurking) for years and I haven't seen someone with PC knowledge as extensive as yours. Salute man!

Also to reply to your reply to mines....I definitely wasn't arguing the Halo 4 bit. That's why I said I agree to a degree. Halo 4 was a marvel. I just think it's subjective to say that it looks better than the majority of the PS3 1st party. I do agree from a technical standpoint, it rivals most.

We are in the same club, with preferred brands.

People don't realize that xbox scorpio will probably be the cheapest way to play 9th gen games. I guarantee xbox scorpio will be able to play 9th gen games at lower rez/textures. So this may convince people to go with xbox scorpio to save money while playing 9th gen games.