Dev On Xbox Scorpio Visuals: “Parity” Has To Be Maintained “But We Can Really Go To Town On Ramping Up The Visual Quality”

According to VooFoo Studios' technical director, Marker Williams, the Xbox Scorpio will be more than welcome when it comes to higher allegiance gaming.

VooFoo Studio is the programmer behind Mantis Fire Racing, which was recently tested by Eurogamer's Digital Foundry on the PS4 Pro. Digital Foundry concluded that the PS4 Pro offers more a teraflop comparison between the standard PS4 and its upgraded counterpart suggested. The Digital Foundry analysis is quite interesting, and nosotros suggest reading it in full.

While VooFoo Studio made great progress with its racer on Sony'southward enhanced PS4, the studio likewise seems to be very positive about Microsoft'due south take on the mid-gen console cycle – the Xbox Scorpio. In a recent interview with GamingBolt, Williams talked virtually Microsoft'southward Scorpio project and its additional power to render in native 4K resolution at 60 frames per second.

"Information technology has by and large been more difficult to reach 60fps on Xbox One than on PS4, so Scorpio volition be a very welcome alter. I've yet to run into the functional differences in the Scorpio GPU, and so information technology remains to be seen how much of a difference there will actually be, only Scorpio definitely has a significant advantage in terms of memory bandwidth, then we'll definitely be seeing higher fidelity games on at that place," Williams told GamingBolt.

Microsoft has promised that the Xbox Scorpio will exist part of one Xbox family and every bit such, all Xbox games will run on both the standard Xbox One (and Xbox 1 S) and Xbox Scorpio. Although parity has to exist maintained, developers will exist allowed to ramp up to visual quality.

"Aye, definitely," Williams explained. "We take to maintain parity from a functional and gameplay point of view, simply nosotros can actually go to town on ramping upwards the visual quality. It's like having a PC game where you get a new graphics menu and now you tin ramp all the graphics settings upwards to maximum – it's the same game, but it looks a hell of a lot nicer."

The Xbox Scorpio is slated for a release in 2022, well-nigh probably somewhere around the holiday season.