Project Scorpio Is Going To Cost You Some Coin
Last month, we reported that retailers would be introducing a trade-in/trade-up program for Microsoft’s Xbox One Project Scorpio. One thing is for certain, with 6TFLOPs of performance and a new semi-custom Polaris + Zen AMD SoC to enable 4K gaming, Microsoft’s Xbox One Project Scorpio won’t be cheap. We predicted it will likely fall in the $599-$699 range. Well, that might have been a low-ball guesstimate.
Microsoft isn’t talking specifics about the Xbox Scorpio’s price just yet. But in a new interview, Xbox marketing boss Aaron Greenberg said Microsoft sees the system as a “premium product.” This would suggest the console would be on the more expensive side given it’s being referred to as the “most powerful console ever made.”
At Gamescom, Xbox Game Marketing head Aaron Greenberg spoke with DualShockers and said the following:
“We were really thoughtful about the specs we used to design Project Scorpio, and the focus was on how can we deliver true 4K gaming in the console space. And you’re right. Today 4K gaming exists on the PC, with people who spend a lot of money on super high-end PCs with a wide variety of specs… Thousands of dollars in many cases can get 4K gaming, but it hasn’t existed in the console market.
How can we bring that at scale to a really big audience in the console space, is what I’m excited about. To be able to bring six teraFLOPS of GPU power to the console space, is a massive amount of power.
We’re confident that we’ll be able to deliver true 4K gaming with that, and that performance power is gonna bring great games to our fans in the console market.
A lot of those developers that are building those games today, are already doing 4K on PC. Our internal studios… We got Forza Horizon 3, Halo Wars 2, Gears of War 4, all being built today as great graphical showcases on the PC, and so that work is already existing, but the performance power is not there yet in the console space, and we’ll obviously be bringing that next year.”
With regards to the price point, Greenberg said the following:
“Well, we think about it as a premium product. From that standpoint, it is going to be a very high-end product. With that said, we’re not talking at all about any more details about that, but what I can tell you is that what’s exciting for me is that the fact that we can tell people now “we’re gonna bring a whole new console, with a whole new set of capabilities” and be able to innovate with the hardware without sacrificing compatibility, is something that really hasn’t been done before in the console space.
So whether you own games and accessories from the Xbox One launch, whether you’re buying games and accessories today, the ability to talk about that forward compatibility of those products, it’s something we’re really excited about, and to promise that now and into the future.
And that’s when you hear us talking about gaming beyond console generations, it’s really centered on that point. If you put the gamer at the center of everything we do, the content that they own should be able to come with them from device to device. That’s why we’re bringing our games to Xbox Play Anywhere and across PC, with will also be able to come with them from console to console.
That’s really part of that vision and we’re really excited to be able to innovate and to do that over the next year.”
There you have it. How much do you think it will cost? Tell us in the comments below.