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Xbox’s secret monster console is official: get pumped for Project Scorpio

This 6 teraflop beast is bringing "gaming beyond generations"

Not content with having already announced the Xbox One S, Microsoft has just announced the most powerful console the world has ever seen. Boom!

Codenamed Project Scorpio, the new console – set to launch by Christmas 2017 – has 6 teraflops of computing power. Want some context with that? Nvidia’s famed Titan X graphics card has 7 teraflops and the PlayStation Neo (which should be announced later today) is expected to target 4 teraflops.

What this means is that Project Scorpio will bring with it proper, native 4K gaming (the Xbox One S will only do 4K video) and virtual reality.

Microsoft was at great pains to convey that Project Scorpio doesn’t render the Xbox One obsolete, saying that all accessories and games will be cross-compatible. Phew!

One interesting tidbit revolved around Fallout 4. Creator Todd Howard yesterday announced that the game was coming to VR and during Microsoft’s press conference he mentioned bringing that experience to Xbox players.

Thing is, when he announced the game he spoke specifically about it working with HTC Vive and left Oculus out entirely. Oculus has long been rumoured to be doing a deal for compatibility with Xbox, but does the Fallout 4 VR mention mean Microsoft has switched its love to Vive? Or is Microsoft working on a bespoke VR solution that it’s not yet ready to announce? Guess we’ll have to wait and see on that one.

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Tom is a nerd. A gaming nerd, a home cinema nerd, a hi-fi nerd and a car nerd. And a bit of a bike nerd, and phone nerd, and computer nerd. Let's call the whole thing off and just go with all-round nerd. In the past he's been an audio book actor, a games tester, a chocolate salesman and a teacher in Japan. Then he joined What Hi-Fi? as a reviewer back in 2007 and moved to Stuff as Reviews Editor in 2011. After a five-year stint on Stuff he rejoined the What Hi-Fi? team where he currently rules the reviews team with a candy floss fist.

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