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Project Scorpio: Xbox chief on Microsoft's plans for console domination

In an exclusive interview, head of Xbox Phil Spencer explains the vision behind Project Scorpio and what it adds to the Xbox One generation

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Gaming_Cousin2591d ago ShowReplies(9)
KingKionic 2591d ago

“When developers come into the labs and port their engines over to Scorpio, we say, ‘Hey, start with your high-end PC settings, and then see what happens’. We’ve been really pleasantly surprised by the results, because you don’t know what’s gonna happen when you start running third-party engines.”

Lol damn bring on E3.

Lets get it.

Bigpappy2590d ago

This is almost crazy. I can believe what M$ is about to drop here. Post E3 looks to set the internet on fire. If M$ could pull off these types of results with relatively low spec hardware, this could be a major shift in the PC industry. This is all about efficiency and core management.

I am almost nervous to see all those 4K games at E3. I have heard about at least 6 third party games @Native 4K so far. This console is exciting to watch unfold.

TheCommentator2590d ago

Scorpio is going to stupefy so many people around here with it's "plain old, underpowered Jag processors" running 3rd party 4k games with no problems at all. Plus, it's so simple to get an XB1 game up to native 4K that it only took one guy 2 days to do it. I wouldn't be surprised to see any game that already has 4K assets on PC get an upgrade since it can't cost more than a few hours worth of dev time to do it.

Godmars2902590d ago

Its still MS asking 3rd parties to do things for their system, not showing what can be done with it like Sony and Nintendo do.

TheCommentator2590d ago

@ Godmars

How is it that MS is asking 3rd parties do do things for their system?
How is having shown Forza 6 not considered showing what can be done already?
Can't you understand that MS is also going to be showing what the system can do at E3?

Godmars2902590d ago

MS is asking 3rd party devs to bring games by saying they'll run as well on Xbox brand consoles. Have been saying that since coming into the console market.

As for showing something at E3 - of course they have to show something - *ITS E3*! The question is will what they show largely be CG or only CG.

And aren't they on Forza 7? Isn't that a racing game? Sony showed off the latest GT but that's also a racing game and not really worth bringing up in regards to showing off a system. When it was shown off on the PS2 back in the day maybe, but even then that was only about GT and not the PS2. How about a Halo title that plays like Uncharted.

An Uncharted-like title set in the Halo Universe? Something like that would certainly get me excited.

Also, what was cloud servers suppose to do for the XB1? In light it doing little more than light duty so far while waiting for CR3 to get a release date, has MS made mention of anything regarding it and the Scorpio? Any other game it was suppose to help make games easier to make?

FinalFantasyFanatic2589d ago

It's not as if the Xone set the bar very high, since Xone games should run fine on a budget PC, so they should have little trouble porting old games to 4K.

Angeljuice2589d ago

If Microsoft want to dominate the console market they need a massive and fundamental change in their attitude, not just a powerful system.

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XiNatsuDragnel2591d ago

Console domination....Is a overstatement don't get too hyped Phil just plan to be revelant to gamers first.

Bigpappy2590d ago

That wasn't from Phil. He never said that.

XiNatsuDragnel2590d ago

Who did because that's way too ignorant

XanderZane2590d ago

Exactly. "The Guardian" just put that shit in their title to get clicks. Phil doesn't mention "console domination" at all in the whole interview. Total click bait BS.

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slate912590d ago (Edited 2590d ago )

Dont fall victim to the flame bait headlines. #readthearticles2017

XiNatsuDragnel2590d ago (Edited 2590d ago )

True but headlines that clickbaity shouldn't say that.

@OverSensitiveGeneration.

EatCrow2590d ago

Its not oversensitive generation.
The point is: read before you write.

Thats the opposite stance of this generation actually. Reading Headlines instead of stories and researching.

spicelicka2590d ago

That is the author's headline to fish out people like you, not from Phil.

"Phil just plan to be revelant to gamers first"

That's also ironically ignorant, considering you're here commenting about him.

XiNatsuDragnel2590d ago

Yes talking about him and his plans in order to be successful you need to be revelant

Angeljuice2589d ago

It's not really clickbait as the Guardian is a well respected newspaper, it's more that they aren't that knowledgeable on the subject.
Their key demographic is highly educated middle class people, not gamers at all. This article isn't meant for dedicated gamers.

JasonKCK2590d ago

XiNatsuDragnel proof once again you can't get past the title.

XiNatsuDragnel2590d ago

Lol this prove you can't deduce from text, or read context

vegasgamerdawg2589d ago

Because reading the article is hard...

XiNatsuDragnel2589d ago

Interpretation from the lines is difficult as well....

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Shadyceaser2591d ago

I don't want anyone to dominate as the one who dominates gets lazy ..... Competition keeps gaming affordable for most ... Look at MS this time around they are trying very hard to claw back market share thanks to Sony giving them a spanking ... 😃

Godmars2902590d ago

Its that domination is a thing earned not given that's the problem. MS came in proclaiming they'd dominate the console market just like they did PC OS, but even Windows position was earned by may of DOS, which ironically was given to them via IBM.

JasonKCK2589d ago

Godmars290 MS bought DOS from Tim Paterson

Soc52590d ago

I would say they did a good job spanking themselves.

FinalFantasyFanatic2589d ago

Competition is best, it stops stagnation, look at AMD VS Intel/Nvidia, we went without competition in the CPU/GPU sector for so long and now interesting things are starting to happen.

stuna12590d ago

Yeah isn't this a repeat of what they said post 2013?

Fishy Fingers2590d ago

It's a repeat of people failing to read more than a headline...

The twitter generation....

Death2590d ago

This is pretty similar to what happened in 2013. People with no time to read an article took misinformation and multiplied it and then went on a rant about terrible things that didn't exist.

Good job.

morganfell2590d ago

"It's a repeat of people failing to read more than a headline... "

Its the failure of supposed gaming sites using hit inducing headlines and some gamers being too smart to give them a click.

rainslacker2589d ago (Edited 2589d ago )

@Fishy

Yeah, it's the readers fault the author used a headline which in absolutely no way conveys the thing that Phil was trying to say.

Oh hey, that's against N4G rules. Ill go ahead and report since no one else will. What Phil says here is good, but I don't believe this kind of poor clickbait mentality should keep on going. It's too obvious that it only hurts any discourse about the topic more than it would be otherwise.

That being said, it's a shame to report it for this, because it's not a bad interview, and outside some hyperbole, is an interesting read, although not terribly informative technically.

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ARK: Survival Ascended Premium Mods on Consoles Q&A - By 2030, Time Spent on UGC Will Be Way Bigger

ARK: Survival Ascended has introduced Premium Mods on consoles. Wccftech talked to Studio Wildcard and their partner Overwolf about the rising importance of user-generated content, especially for live service games.

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Neil Druckmann clarifies true intent of new Naughty Dog game comments

Following a recent interview with Sony, Naughty Dog head Neil Druckmann claims the original intent was “unfortunately lost” in the process.

just_looken5d ago

He can take dog shit put it in a oven with seasoning then call it waistland cookies the sony fans will pay $40 a cookie give them a medal of cooking.

No mater what trash this sobs puts out/talks about it will sell.

The true fact in the 8 years sense uncharted 4 his first time in the main seat to a point all this "amazing" team did was get 2 dudes to fuck in a van then destroy a franchise they never created.

But being a port studio they are decent at they should keep in there lane at being just that a glorified port studio.

fr0sty5d ago

Salty Bots... gotta love it.

just_looken5d ago

@frosty

Over what? naught dog under his command is a glorified port team tlou2 was mostly tlou 1 asset's with the same game play loop but forced a trans down your throat.

I would gladly help pay for this blight and his team to get removed from gaming in general.

fr0sty5d ago

Seeing a LGBT person exist in a work of fiction isn't "forcing them down your throat". Nobody is forcing you to play it. Nobody is forcing you to agree with it. If you think that just seeing a LGBT person exist is "force", it sounds like they make you very uncomfortable, and maybe you need to be doing some serious reflecting on exactly why... looks to me like you're suppressing something with all that fear.

just_looken5d ago

@fro

When i think of the last of us i think of a group of survivors crossing the apocalypse wasteland with a growing bond between 2 people that end up with Joel making ellie his new daughter.

Then you fire up the 2nd one bang joel is dead oh that comic series? bang dead

Oh you want to continue all that we grew in the first one? na f that toss it in the trash

Now here is a trans woman so strong superboy would blush go out there kill all what made tlou1 then halfway get a forced sex scene that you can not skip between 2 dudes.

The gameplay? just like the first game the combat/backpack system crafting sytem? 0 changes/improvements.

I could go on but lets face it they copy pasted that tlou 1 assets bin a shit ton of times.

There is nothing on the box or the ads or anything before the game that said you would going to spend most of the game controlling a new trans character that has no ties to anything of the first game the only existence was to kill what the first game made.

Oh but hey there is a mp mode coming out before 2022 wait what is that? oh we made it its own game then cancelled it now go but the game again as we port it a few times.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

mkis0075d ago (Edited 5d ago )

What has Straley or Henig released since they left ND? Not a thing! stop scapegoating! Which of them is credited with co-writing a majorly successful show?

just_looken5d ago

@mkis007

You bring up Bruce Straley really? someone that gave us 4 generations of amazing games and was there in the creation of 4 legendary franchises but was tossed in the trash for the pos niel druckmann not 7? years ago

So yeah in those 7? years you right all he has done is get 2 awards one is a game award for a puzzle game he made oh boy right like for fuck sake's all niel has done is one game that was a overhyped fan boy orgasm underneath all that ps jizz was just a typical 5/10 game.

Then you drag Amy Hennig that poor woman was also kicked out then became this century's Brendan Fraser with her sexual misconduct information coming out.

We all know how horrible people are treated behind the scenes she might have been sexual attacked groped or something.

So yeah all she did after was battlefield hardline forspoken now that new marvel 1945 game but hey Brendan Fraser was a great actor till he also said he was sexually attacked just now he is allowed back in no doubt she also had to take a leave of absence out and or was forced out on ice.

Man there are way to many out there that look at niel at the new gaming jesus when all he had done is some work on uncharted 4 then tlou2

Oh also the tvhshow? for real all they did was use stuff from the 2013 game its like saying GOT was a 10/10 but never watching past season 3

-Foxtrot5d ago

@mkis007

That's highly unfair to them both

Amy Hennig got messed around working on projects that got cancelled by the publishers (EA) and then ended up on a awful game (Forspoken) where you had 4 other writers working on it which is just a recipe for disaster. She is now working on Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra. Not her fault she was pushed out of NaughtyDog, something both Nolan North and Richard McGonagle have both said in interviews.

Bruce Straley left after burn out, the rest of the story we don't know and will never know just like what happened with Amy Hennig. He decided to take a break and wasn't sure if he wanted to come back to gaming however he had an idea he wanted to make so he founded Wildflower Interactive, a smaller studio where they are currently working on a new game.

Tacoboto5d ago

@the obvious stain of a commenter

The trans character wasn't Abby. Try playing Part 2 instead of gatekeeping what you think Part 1 was about and meant.

Maybe try watching the show while you're at it, because you're terribly off with your opinion on that too

MajorLazer5d ago

Naughty Dog is better than all the MS studios put together.

derek5d ago (Edited 5d ago )

@just he has been behind 2 of the greatest games ever made. Tlou2 was easily the best non-vr game made last gen. Losers just can't get over Joel's death, mixed with the usual console war nonsense. The fact that you so casually call him a sob shows how deranged some gamers have become about Drunkmann.

derek5d ago

@frosty, for people like Just, including anyone that can be categorized as being a minority in any kind of media is "forcing it down his throat " lol. I to don't care for poor "checking box" inclusion for inclusion sake but that was not the case with tlou2.

fr0sty5d ago (Edited 5d ago )

The pathetic part about it is, you can tell just_looken never even played TLOU, because that was the game where Ellie's sexuality was first brought to light... No "that was forced down our throats" to be said about that.

Only terrified folks in the closet that use their hatred as cover from outing themselves fear LGBT people that much. They exist. They will exist in all aspects of life, including popular media. Get over it.

just_looken4d ago

@all

Once again you drag out something like its a big win

Here is my old channel a clip of me playing TLOU on ps3
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Search my channel for more clips

Proof its my channel? look at this profiles banner that is 7yrs old then look at other vids on that channel like my bf3 clips to see my psn id. But knowing this group that is way to much work.

Also elle being a lesbian is another trump card? one dlc is all we got of that a dlc that took over a year to be tossed out.

Rainbowcookie4d ago

Hey at least we have cookies to eat 😄

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Rangerman12086d ago

Glad he clarified it but i'm still somewhat skeptical. Plus, his comments about how Ai will revolutionize storytelling were still pretty iffy.

anast6d ago

No need to bow down, Stan your ground. The AI comments were gross though.

S2Killinit6d ago

Pretty excited as I read these. I just cant wait to see what ND is up to.

Export6d ago

put a chick in it and make her gay !

shadowknight2035d ago

Next they need a diverse couple, and perhaps some climate activists

StormSnooper5d ago (Edited 5d ago )

I would love that if only to piss off all the lunatics. Lol

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Naughty Dog Boss Neil Druckmann Says AI Will 'Revolutionize' Development

Druckmann claims the tech could 'push the boundaries of storytelling in games.'

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Jin_Sakai7d ago

I’m more interested in what else he said.

“Neil Druckmann says new Naughty Dog title could ‘redefine mainstream perceptions of gaming’

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H97d ago

It will be something like "we erased gameplay all together it's just a movie now"

purple1017d ago

every time naughty dog make a game, you play it and get the feeling "this is not possible'

from the boulder running towards you in crash, on ps1,
to the massive open world of jak and daxter, on ps2,
to the QuickTime events sequences of uncharted on ps3/4

and now we will see what they do with ps5,

H97d ago

Press X for doubt at "PS5"

-Foxtrot7d ago (Edited 7d ago )

Arrogant asshole who sniffs his own farts bigs up next game…sounds like typical PR to me

You know what I find interesting? Almost every site reporting this as the main title where the REAL interesting bit of the interview is Neil praising AI and saying it will be used to help push story, characters, dialogue and more.

It’s super shitty to big up AI especially when it comes to story telling and other creative elements.

senorfartcushion7d ago

Just because someone says this type of stuff, it doesn't mean that it's guaranteed to be good news.

You can say this about microtransactions. MXTs revolutionised the gaming industry.

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Levii_927d ago

Geez how full of themselves are these guys.

Einhander19727d ago

He also said it has "ethical issues we need to address" but of course that doesn't get the clicks.

CrimsonWing697d ago

I’m all for it. Cuts the time to make a game. Look, Hellblade 2 took 5 years to make, if AI can do that in half the time, as a consumer, I support it.

Chard7d ago

Things will get far sloppier brother

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