Meanwhile Microsoft remains confident in its Xbox One S proposition. So the thinking was perhaps, why not go big? Why not light the powder keg at the biggest show in gaming? There’s much more appreciation for – and even reliance on – the vast, global independent sector, and it’s unlikely Microsoft would have kept its new platform secret for long while communicating with such a large community. Of course, the counter-argument would be that Microsoft could have done that in secret, with a whole bunch of NDAs, but then, the industry has changed a lot, even since the last hardware generation. In short, Spencer wanted to use E3 to reach the whole development community and pique its interest in the new hardware. Being able to detail our vision and talk about it here at E3 will kickstart those conversations, and I know you will see some of the best creators thinking through ideas just like that.” That is one of the ideas that people have definitely been thinking through. There are now games like Rocket League, where I can play against people on a different platform.
“So sharing the vision with our creative partners and our internal teams, putting the tools and the capability out there, will lead to those breakthrough experiences. OK, so why do it, and why now? “Creators, given time, will come up with amazing transformative ideas that I’m not smart enough to come up with,” he says. So why not keep it secret for a few more months? Why instantly cannibalise the Xbox One S market before it has even launched? And while Xbox One S will run 4K movies and promises to upscale games to that resolution, it’ll be Scorpio that delivers true, native 4K gaming.
The question on a lot of lips was, why? Why did Microsoft start its press briefing with Xbox One S, promising 4K compatibility, a new 40% smaller body and support for HDR gaming, only to apparently undermine the package by revealing Scorpio at the end? Due in late 2017, this intriguing iteration packs in eight CPU cores and promises six teraflops of processing power.
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The company choose the event to announce, not one, but two new consoles: an updated version of the Xbox One with a simple “S” suffix, and a more powerful upgrade – codenamed Project Scorpio – due out next year. A t the end of this year’s E3 conference in Los Angeles, one thing seemed clear: although a lot of journalists left feeling that Sony had “won” the hype war with its games-focused press conference, everyone was actually talking about Microsoft.
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