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I grew up playing consoles and I always thought PC games as just supplement to that whole experience that was it nothing more consoles offer a unique home theater entertainment experience unlike any other for the price some would argue others of course like many of you who watch this channel feel the complete opposite many of you feel that even a cheap HTPC can offer competitive advantages over console counterparts I don't blame you and I make no secret of my current bias however maybe the speculation will pull you closer toward the center just what will comprise the Xbox Scorpio this next-gen console brings quite a bit to the table nothing new in the PC sphere by any means but enough on the other side to potentially boost market share man perhaps enough to convince some of you to do the same so what about Scorpio makes it so compelling primarily it's 4k gaming potential merged with a next-gen console price which I expect to land around four hundred US dollars any more than about 450 in Microsoft risks losing a great deal of its current fan base for comparison sake I built a modern 4k capable gaming PC and a PC part picker list in this video's description it's actually very similar to the ITX PC I built here instructional included I just swapped the aim the Ark's 480 for a gtx 1070 a 1070 is capable of some moderate 4k gaming with triple-a titles and if you have at least an i5 to back up those frames you'll be a-ok the pcs form factor will mimic the Xbox ones as well here the cost approaches one thousand US dollars but they're on Scorpios end the cost will likely be significantly lower granted these are aimed at different markets specifications for the most part are unknown but we're confident in an eight-course CPU and dedicated graphics unit capable of get this six teraflops of floating-point performance that's gtx 1070 territory and while t flop values are not exact representations of graphical performance they do bring a great deal of insight into cross-platform potential and well optimised titles and if there's one thing we in the PC gaming sphere can admit about consoles it's that their titles are beautifully optimized it makes sense right there's only one kind of Xbox 360 Xbox one def know exactly how to take full advantage of onboard hardware because it never Changez at least within that particular generation memory bandwidth at 320 gigabytes per second only further pushes a narrative of powerful computer Aphex and reveals the possibility of gddr5 ex-something videos GT X 1080 boasts as well and that's a $600 graphics card on its own I say that to save this and take it with a grain of salt the six teraflops Microsoft themselves are purporting on their website might as well be eight or nine teraflops and PC gaming terms just from an optimization standpoint alone 4k gaming piece of cake now let's discuss the other half of this equation the eighth course central processor we know it will have eight physical cores because it says so right here and Xbox ret supposted on social media that the Scorpio met they're exceedingly high expectations during the testing phase how about AMD Zen cores both Microsoft and Sony of championed AMD processors in the past and it would honestly come as no surprise that Microsoft chose them again with a cheeky contract in an effort to spearhead the new architecture and place the red team back on the map this of course is widely speculated but a few hints have me feeling this way safely namely the mentioning of project Scorpio at the AMD rise and boost this year at CES seems too obvious and deliberate to be a coincidence at this point however I must digress there are much more recent claims from inside sources that the CPU inside Scorpio isn't capable of native 60 FPS gameplay it might be a 30fps video up sampled if you will to 60fps which tells me that it's probably not horizon CPU because you would think that a rising CPU would would be capable of 60fps this is all speculation it might just end up boasting an eight-core Jaguar CPU that's overclocked just a bit more than the Xbox one others will disagree that's what the comments section is for Microsoft is also promising backwards compatibility with the Xbox one something that undoubtedly cut into the one sales back in 2013 Wow was it that long ago the release date for the Scorpio by the way quote-unquote holiday 2017 likely during the month of November history serves me correctly now wrapping up what we know and can safely extrapolate from the provided console specifications the Scorpio will be around four times more powerful than the Xbox one pack nearly five times rhe bandwidth and four times the gaming resolution seems compelling enough but here comes the cliche phrase only time will tell now you have my permission to commence an all-out war in the comments section below if you like this video be sure to give it a thumbs up give it a thumbs down if you feel the complete opposite or if you hate everything 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