The announcement of the next Microsoft console was somewhat disappointing and reminded the revelation of Project Scorpio (the system that ended up being Xbox One X): Close-ups of executives sharing their vision and early plans of chips and hardware in development. It’s what the company usually does, but since it was a special E3 we expected a little more.
For now we know that Project Scarlett (the name code for the new line Xbox composed of two consoles) will be very similar to the next PlayStation: Use a chip custom AMD with Zen technology 2 and Navi, you can run game in resolution 8K and 120 frames per sec Ndo and will be compatible with ray tracing technology to represent the incidence of light in a more realistic way. In addition, like Sony, Microsoft is working on “the next generation” of solid-state disks that will eliminate game-loading times.
Where Microsoft takes several bodies out of Sony is in the retrocompatibility. The next Xbox will be able to run the four-generation console games (Xbox original, Xbox 360, Xbox One and Scarlett), creating an instant catalog of thousands of products at the launch at the end of 2020. Of the launch itself did not speak but it did confirm that Halo Infinite will be available from day one on the new console. The game was presented with a long introductory video that raises the basis of what will be the story of this sixth installment, which is expected to continue with the events of Halo 5: Guardians but at the same time it works as a kind of reboot.
