Windows Central recently spoke to a highly credible source about Xbox’s upcoming console, Project Scorpio, and they revealed that it will run 4K Universal Windows Platform (UWP) games natively.
Project Scorpio is being advertised as the most powerful console ever when it launches in 2017, with 6 teraflops of graphical processing power and the ability to render high-fidelity VR. Because of the Universal Windows Platform that is standardized across Windows 10 devices, the source said that any game made to run at 4K for UWP on Windows 10 will also run at 4K natively on Project Scorpio with minimal changes.
If you’ve been able to play Gears of War 4 or Forza Horizon 3 on a PC at 4K, you know just how great they will look running on Project Scorpio. Third-party UWP Windows 10 Store titles such as Gwent: The Witcher Card Game and Cuphead will be 4K Scorpio-ready simply because they were already developed for PC.
The source also told Windows Central that Project Scorpio will be able to mimic the Xbox One at a hardware level, allowing developers to test their games and see the differences between the two systems. This is known as Project Helix, internally.
Project Scorpio is set to release next fall. We will most likely see more information regarding the console come out around E3 2017.
Source: Windows Central
Jennifer is a games journalist, former games journalist and PR Manager at Gearbox. They contributed 234 articles to ICXM between 2015–2017, focused on opinion pieces, game reviews, Windows and PC, and Xbox news: went on to write for Windows Central and later managed PR for Gearbox Software.