Electronic Arts' recently unveiled research division is a promising concept, and it means a great deal to Project Scorpio

The "Search for Extraordinary Experiences Division" (SEED) is an internal skunkworks at Electronic Arts, which has been established to pursue cutting-edge advancements for use in games. As explained on stage by the company's Executive Vice President, Patrick Söderlund, SEED is an avenue for "exploring visionary concepts" within EA – a feat that's sometimes hard to pursue within today's major AAA publishers.

Though SEED's advancements could lead to some unique and innovative new titles in the future, the group's early work is transpiring in EA's upcoming titles. To kickstart the division, one of its first undertakings has been put into motion with Microsoft's upcoming high-end Xbox console, called "Project Scorpio."

With hardware cycles refreshing more frequently, there's a growing drive to stand out from the crowd and leverage new resources. Preparing for the next console launch, SEED has already gone hands-on with Project Scorpio development kits and is working to optimize EA's Frostbite game engine for the platform.

With improved overall optimization for the Frostbite engine on Project Scorpio, other upcoming EA titles will assumedly utilize this research. And as previously leaked ahead of E3, both Star Wars Battlefront II and FIFA 18 are among the games expected hit native 4K and 60 frames per second (FPS) on the console.

While visual improvements on Project Scorpio are welcome, this is ultimately only one of many areas SEED plans to invest in. Research goes further than visual enhancements and Project Scorpio hardware – it's designed to adapt to upcoming technology as it arises.

https://www.windowscentral.com/electronic-arts-new-seed-division-project-scorpio

Looks like Project Scropio will the definitive console for EA games. I hope to hear more about SEED today at the Microsoft Conference.

Seems like EA is pouring its SEED all over the Xbox Scorpio... These two need to get a room.

Well they are match made in heaven. Company that likes shinniest thing, and the company making the shinniest thing. Scorpio seems to be shinnest thing. 

The fact most EA games run on Frostbite pretty much gives us a confirmation that Xbox Scorpio is the best place to play their games. Many sport games still don't make their way to PC from Ea like Madden and NHL so if you like sports games from EA you should pick up a scorpio for sure.

Its good news because more and more people watch online comparisons and they want the best versions of games and I know first hand pc- and console gaming isn't the same the online community the ease of access and also your friends change from platform to platform.

Its great to see EA and Microsoft, which have always been strong partners, step it up and make good use of all the hardware.

Its also worth noting EA did a good job of supporting PS4 pro too with a native 4k version of fifa 17 and battlefield 1 running a lot better on that console. Good news either way EA is a major player and I know many of my friends spent most of their time just playing sports games anyway.

And lets not forget EA Access is only on Xbox and PC and with the discounts and instant library thats still a very good value for many people.

They'll have to be careful or they're going to cause mass blindness. I only play EA games on my PC/Mac's though.

Well, if any console needs extraordinary experiences it's Xbox. Good for EA and MS to finally get together to search for the things that they have been missing for so long.

So Project Scorpio will probably be EA's lead console for their game development.

Battlefront 2 4k 60 fps.... Mother of God.

Hory Shet, I just realised he's created 731 threads, but he only has 3493 posts.

1 in 6 of his posts are from creating new threads.

Well, we have a mere 6 and a half hours. I'm not sure if I believe it but either way, we're going to find out.