Windows Central is reporting that they have received the target specs for Microsoft’s next-gen console. The website refers to credible sources but with any rumor, we advise you to take the following with a grain of salt. But according to the leaks, Xbox Scarlett is going to become an insanely powerful home console.
After many rumors, Microsoft officially teased their next-generation gaming console earlier this year during E3. Codenamed Xbox Project Scarlett, the future of Xbox promised a no-compromised high-fidelity next-gen gaming experience. With a targeted release window of Holiday 2020, Microsoft didn’t really delve deep into Scarlett back then.
Things change drastically today however with Windows Central claiming to have gotten credible information about Scarlett’s specs. Or at least one of it. We have to preface here that rumors about Microsoft planning to release multiple Xbox consoles for next-gen have been swirling for years. It makes more sense when you consider how this console generation went, with both Sony and Microsoft pushing beefed up mid-gen consoles with the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X. It seems that the age of a single SKU console is well over and Microsoft’s plans are especially ambitious. Instead of waiting a couple of years to release a more powerful next-Xbox, it looks like two unique Xbox systems will launch simultaneously next Holiday season. A more affordable and less powerful Lockhart Xbox and an uncompromised, much more powerful Anaconda Xbox. These are codenames obviously, and we should get concrete news from Microsoft in the near future.
Today’s leaks are detailing the specs for both the new Xbox systems. Reportedly, both systems will feature a modern AMD CPU clocked at 3.5GHz, 16GB RAM (Anaconda) 12GB RAM (Lockhart), blazingly-fast NVMe SSD storage with the major differentiation being the graphical prowess. Lockhart will have a theoretical computational performance of 4TF (teraflops) and Anaconda 12TF. It’s a massive gulf but the important takeaway here is, that both systems should be able to play every game, just at different resolutions and framerates. It would make sense for the Lockhart to play at lower resolutions and framerates while Anaconda delivers the full 4K/60fps experience.
Stay tuned for the coming months when Microsoft starts sharing more details about Xbox Project Scarlett.
