Microsoft Says Xbox Scorpio Will Be Better than Sony’s PS4 Pro

Microsoft believes that their latest upgrade to the Xbox, the Xbox Scorpio, will be far better than Sony's Playstation 4 Pro. It seems like the two biggest gaming console developers are once again in for another console war.

The feud between the two technological giants have since simmered down over the years, and have seen each other as healthy competition, but since the unveiling of the Playstation 4 Pro, all signs of friendly sportsmanship between the two have gone out the window, as Microsoft promises to deliver a better product with the release of the Xbox Scorpio.

Xbox Senior Director of product management and planning, Albert Penello, has said that he feels pretty good with the decisions they've made with the Scorpio, in a phone interview with Polygon. Penello has stated that the new Xbox Scorpio will have more features than Sony's new Playstation 4 upgrade, adding that 4K resolution is indeed the future of both the Xbox and Playstation, while their own product will be indeed more powerful.

Pocket-lint has recently provided a hardware comparison between the Playstation 4 Pro and the Xbox Scorpio. In terms of graphics, the Xbox Scorpio will have a system on chip of 6 teraflops to render its 4K graphics, much like the ones used for high-end PC gaming, while the Playstation 4 Pro only has 4.2 teraflops of processing power, while running on an AMD Radeon-based GDU. While both consoles will feature 4K HDR video streams, the PS4 Pro does not have a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player, which was quickly pointed out by Microsoft. For CPU and memory, both consoles will run on an octa-core CPU, with the PS4 running on the x86-64 Jaguar.

After the recent unveiling of the Playstation 4 Pro, and making the announcement that it will be launched this coming November with a $399 price tag, the world is now looking at Microsoft to unveil more of the Xbox Scorpio. The Scorpio is rumored to be released late in 2017.