Project Scorpio, the next console from Microsoft, is not only billed as being the most powerful console of all time, but many within Microsoft have stated that it will bring an “end to console generations”. Likely meaning that Scorpio will just be upgraded within itself rather than having a brand new console. However, Xbox Boss Phil Spencer has said its not that simple:
“I don’t have this desire to every two years have a new console on the shelf”, he explained to Game Informer. “That’s not part of the console business model, and it doesn’t actually help us. The best customer I have is somebody who buys the original Xbox and just buys all the games. That’s the best customer for us in terms of the pure financials of it […] I’m not trying to turn consoles into the graphics card market.”
He also noted that while Microsoft is looking beyond Scorpio for its next console, they aren’t sure what it would be right now:
“To be completely honest, I don’t know what the next console is past Scorpio. We’re thinking about it. We’re looking at consumer trends and what the right performance spec and price would be, and [asking ourselves], ‘Can we hit something that has a meaningful performance characteristic that a gamer would care about?'”
Project Scorpio will release in 2017.
