Project Scorpio has a lot of people interested and for good reason. Without wanting to “toot their horn” too much, it seems like Microsoft might be onto something with a console with all that teraflop power, a term I still can’t believe nobody realised was ludicrous when it was created.
Speaking to Endgadget, Aaron Greenberg of Xbox’s marketing has claimed that Project Scorpio could be about do something quite dramatic: put an end to console generations altogether and serve as a constantly updated and contemporary piece of hardware.
“For us, we think the future is without console generations; we think that the ability to build a library, a community, to be able to iterate with the hardware – we’re making a pretty big bet on that with Project Scorpio. We’re basically saying, ‘This isn’t a new generation; everything you have continues forward and it works.’ We think of this as a family of devices.”
What Greenberg is saying, after wading through the typical PR language, is that Microsoft are going to be done with releasing a new console for quite some time once Scorpio is out in the wild. They will be looking for constant backwards compatibility, but it’s unclear how the base Scorpio console will work with forwards compatibility.
Everything isn’t quite so certain, however. Greenberg continued:
[interaction id=”57b58054336e03ca34d39766″]“We’re going to learn from this, we’re going to see how that goes. So far I’d say, based on the reaction, there appears to be a lot of demand and interest around Project Scorpio, and we think it’s going to be a pretty big success. If the games and the content deliver, which I think they will do, I think it will change the way we think about the future of console gaming.”
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