The Nintendo Switch might be getting all the attention this end of the year, but come year-end, Microsoft will undoubtedly steal the spotlight with its long-awaited Project Scorpio console.

Coming part way through the life-cycle of the existing Xbox One, the upgraded console is said to pack some significantly souped-up hardware, with talk of Microsoft introducing a device that users could upgrade themselves, much like a PC.

Now, Xbox boss Phil Spencer has poured cold water on such rumours in a response to a question concerning the whole upgradeable thing on Twitter.

Specifically, Spencer says he believes an upgradeable console is "a stretch," suggesting Microsoft isn't planning any such feature for its upcoming console.

@HOLYFRIEDMONKEY The idea that users will open up a console and change compute components inside seems like a stretch to me.

— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) April 2, 2017

Microsoft has already confirmed E3 2017 will bring a full reveal for Project Scorpio, with the console set to become available in the holiday season of 2017.

It's said to come with an 8-core CPU and a graphics card with 6TFLOPs (trillion floating point operations per second) of power, putting the console on a par with today's top-end graphics chips – though, by the time it launches Scorpio will be the equivalent of a mid-range PC.

There's also the promise of full native 4K on the new device, with lead planner for Xbox, Albert Penello, previously saying: "we were very clear we wanted developers to take their Xbox One engines and render them in native, true 4K."

Posted: Apr 03, 2017 4:07 pm
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