Project Scorpio vs Xbox One S: Which one should you buy?

Meanwhile, though the new systems are still unreleased, fans expect that the program will continue even with the roll out of two new Xbox consoles, the already-revealed Xbox One S, and the upcoming upgrade, “Project Scorpio”.

“We’re building a beast”.

If the sources’ claims hold true, then that would make Sony’s mysterious hardware update roll out a full year before the Xbox Scorpio, despite the former having no real details and with the latter already officially announced. Memory bandwidth is also to be improved over the PlayStation 4, but at a figure of 218GB/s is still far behind that of Scorpio. Microsoft didn’t push the virtual reality peripheral much as it didn’t have enough new titles to justify the price tag.

The Xbox One S, on the other hand, is a redesigned version of the regular (not old) Xbox One.

Despite both the PS4 and Xbox One being no more than three years old, both companies promised to release more powerful and higher featured versions of each in the next six to 12 months. Neo seemed to be a half step in this generation of hardware, but Microsoft seems to have learned from its mistakes with Xbox One and is wanting to start a new round of console wars.

As for Project Scorpio’s release date, Microsoft announced that it will be released in 2017 during the holiday season. For the goal of consistency, we’ll be using “PS Neo” throughout the article. A new game in the God of War series was also announced and demoed.

According to Richard Leadbetter, “several sources” have confirmed that PlayStation Neo will come to market in 2016. Although it has 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player for watching 4K videos or movies, per BGR. And given that all you really need to get going with PS VR is a PlayStation 4 console (and camera), it’ll be the most accessible high-quality VR setup available – it’s a lot more affordable than HTC Vive or Oculus Rift.

“The most immediate problem is Microsoft effectively killed the Xbox One Slim right out of the gate”.

The new Play Anywhere program will allow gamers gamers to buy select titles for their Xbox One or Windows 10 PC and have it accessible on either machine.

Essentially, the two models are appealing to entirely different demographics, similar to the normal Xbox One controller and the enhanced Elite variant.