Microsoft On Xbox Scorpio: “Not Every Developer” Will Take “That 6TFLOPs And Do 4K/60fps With It”

With the upcoming Xbox Scorpio, Microsoft's goal is to build a panel without having to brand compromises on graphic fidelity, framerate, lighting furnishings, etc., and deliver that in 4K at 60FPS. According to Microsoft's senior director of product management however, not every developer will be using the hardware of the Scorpio in that way.

During Microsoft's E3 press conference this year, the company announced "The most powerful console ever." – Project Scorpio. The Xbox Scorpio is currently slated for a release side by side year, and developers are promised access to 8 CPU cores, 320GB'due south of memory bandwidth, and 6tflops of GPU power. Although Microsoft's goal is to build a console that delivers truthful 4K games, it'southward up to the developers to decide what they will practise with the panel'due south power. Microsoft'due south sr. manager of product management, Albert Penello, said equally much in a recent interview with The Inner Circle.

"You have to accept a goal. When you decide to do a piece of technology…when you want to launch, how much do you want it to cost…and there are all these decisions. At some point you have to say that this is what nosotros want to do. And then Phil kind of teased this upwards…we didn't…and this is not a slam on everyone…nosotros didn't want to take a half step. Phil used to run studios and he is got all this studio guys and all these technology guys and he said if we are going to do this we demand to make sure that we make a technology goal for ourselves."

"So the goal was tin can we take the same level of graphics, the same frame charge per unit, the same lighting effects, same number of enemies and AI on screen and deliver that in 4K. No compromises. I don't have to half the number of enemies on screen, I don't have to reduce the effects, I don't have to make the game smaller. I should be able to have an Xbox I game today that is in 1080p and 60fps and I desire to do 4K/60fps on this new box. And we built the box to deliver that goal. So we know the box will practice what we desire information technology to practice."

Microsoft's goal is to evangelize a box that can deliver 4K at 60FPS, only Penello can imagine that developers might desire to exercise something different for their game.

"I retrieve people get confused and say our messaging is weird. Not every developer is going to use it that way. Not every developer is going to decide to have that 6TFLOPs and practice 4K/60fps with it. They might decide for their game, their engine that they want to do something unlike and that'southward fine. But our goal is to build a box that evangelize true 4K games at the same level of allegiance that yous see on your current Xbox One games. That is the box nosotros are building. We know nosotros can do it. We wouldn't have went out and said it if we didn't think we could practice information technology. We have a lot of work alee to do it merely that is our goal."

Are you excited for the Xbox Scorpio? Do you expect that developers will aim for true 4K gaming or volition they rather opt for 1080P at 60FPS with visual options maxed out? Leave your comments below.