Watch Microsoft announce Xbox Project Scarlett

The Console is Vital and Central to Our Experience

We want to talk about our next console, and it's essential to understand that the console is vital and central to our gaming experience. We believe that a console should be designed and built with one thing in mind: gaming. The same team that created the world's most powerful console, Xbox One X, and innovated its groundbreaking processor and elite controller has set out on a new mission to create the future of gaming for you.

We're not just talking about building another console; we want to create something transformative, more immersive, and more detailed. We want to make it easier for people to get into the game and stay in the game. One of the things that gamers and developers are incredibly excited about is reducing load times. As an RPG gamer, I can relate to the frustration of sitting in a fake elevator while waiting for the game to load in the background – there's just an "elevator ride forever" feeling to it.

Our goal is to eliminate those pauses and create a seamless experience that allows you to fully immerse yourself in the world of gaming. This generation promises to be bigger than any we've seen before, with advancements in technology and innovations that will take your breath away.

At the heart of our next-generation console is our custom-designed processor, leveraging the latest Xen- and Navi technology from our partners at AMD. From a pure processing perspective, this new processor is four times more powerful than the Xbox One X. We're also leveraging high-bandwidth GDDR6 RAM to ensure that we're getting the best performance possible.

This means that we'll be able to achieve frame rates that we've never seen before – up to 120 frames per second – and capabilities like 8K resolution, variable refresh rate, and next-gen ray tracing. This hardware acceleration is a game-changer (no pun intended) because it's real-time for the first time ever.

But what I'm personally most excited about is our new SSD technology. We've created a new generation of SSDs that we're using as virtual RAM to achieve performance increases of over 40 times that of our current generation. The combination of the SOC and the solid-state drive gives you a totally new experience, allowing us to generate more life in the world of gaming and bring it to you in a seamless way.

This means that you'll be able to move through worlds without waiting for screens to load – speed that performance is what the next generation is all about. With our next-generation console, we're not just building a new console; we're creating an immersive experience that will transport you to new worlds and allow you to experience gaming in ways you never thought possible.

We want to give developers the power to build games they've always envisioned, with hundreds of people across both our first-party studios and third-party studios working on next-generation experiences today. Our commitment to content at Xbox Game Studios 13 Studios and 343 is an amazing one, always striving for more seamless worlds with the next generation.

With our next-generation console, we're not just launching a new console; we're building the future of gaming. We launched Xbox 18 years ago, and since then, game reviewers have called it the definitive reason to own an Xbox – because humanity is worth saving. Next holiday, we will launch project Scarlett with Halo, and it's going to eat monsters for breakfast.

This is Project Scarlett, our most powerful and highest-performing console ever designed built for creators to unleash their boldest creative visions and optimized for players to enjoy the ultimate gaming experience on a console anywhere. Immersive experiences begin at the very heart of the console – at the silicon level itself – together with our partners at AMD, we have co-engineered and custom-designed a state-of-the-art processor for Project Scarlett power that you can see defined previous generations' power and performance in – it's what defines Project Scarlett when we talk about freedom to play when we talk about Xbox in the cloud when we talk about streaming your games, Project Scarlett and all of its power and all of its performance is the foundation of our future and console and the formation of our future in cloud.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso let's talk about our next console for us the console is vital and central to our experience we heard you a console should be designed and built and optimized for one thing and one thing only gaming so the same team that created the world's most powerful console Xbox one X and innovated its groundbreaking processor and the elite controller the same team that engineered the world-class compatibility of today's Xbox one consoles the same team that set the bar for live gaming services with Xbox Live this same team set out on a new mission to create the future of gaming for you when we think about the future of gaming it's not just PC it's not just console it's not just mobile it's really all of the above Xbox is all about choice we're investing in technology all throughout the game stack the games you want with the people you want on the devices that you want and for us that starts with our next-generation console we don't want to build just another console we truly want it to be transformative more immersion more exploration more detail how do we make it easier for people to get into the game to stay in the game one of the things that gamers and developers are incredibly excited about is reducing load times I'm an RPG gamer and so like loading screens are a thing sitting there in the fake elevator because you know that the game's loading in the background there's just an elevator ride forever that's our goal with gaming is that you don't have those pauses this generation is going to be a bigger leap than any generation we've done before at the heart of our next-generation console is our custom design processor leveraging the latest Xen - and Navi technology from our partners at AMD from a pure processing perspective this is four times more powerful than the Xbox one X we're leveraging high bandwidth GDD our six to ensure that we're getting the best performance possible it's gonna occur in resolution and frame rates that we've never seen before like never seen before we're looking at frame rates up to 120 frames per second 8k capability variable refresh rate next-gen ray tracing it's real-time because this hardware accelerated for the first time ever what I'm personally most excited about is the SSD we've created a new generation of SSDs we're actually using the SSD as virtual Ram we're seeing more than 40 times performance increases over the current generation the combination of the SOC and the solid-state drive are really what gives you a totally new experience now we can take all of that power and apply it back into the scene so we can actually generate more life in that world and bring it to the game or in a seamless way so that then you're fully experiencing what the game developer wants you to experience when you can move through worlds without waiting for screens to low that speed that performance is what the next generation is about this is the most immersive console experience ever what we really want to do is give developers the power to build the game they've always envisioned we have hundreds of people across both of our first party studios as well as our third party studios working on those next generation experiences today it's an amazing commitment to content at Xbox game studios 13 Studios 7 in the last year that's a big family at 343 for us it's always about more seamless worlds with the next generation we can bring the world to life in a way we've never experienced halo before we're delivering four generations of content better than you've ever seen them before this console is especially awesome four-game past members with the faster load times you're gonna be able to experience all the games within just snap your fingers we're giving gamers the option to connect across devices and across platforms in a way that we never were able to before this isn't just a console launch this is about the future of gaming your games your G your progression your accessories your console gaming experience with Xbox it all comes forward with Scarlett it eats monsters for breakfast this is project scarlet the most powerful and highest performing console we've ever designed built for creators to unleash their boldest creative visions and optimized for players to enjoy the ultimate gaming experience on a console anywhere immersive experiences begin at the very heart of the console at the silicon level itself together with our partners at AMD we have Co engineered and custom design a state of the art processor for project Scarlett power you could see defined previous generations power and performance you can see and feel defines project Scarlett when we talk about freedom to play when we talk about Xbox in the cloud when we talk about streaming your games project Scarlett and all of its power and all of its performance is the foundation of our future and console and the formation of our future in cloud we launched Xbox 18 years ago with the game reviewers called the definitive reason to own an Xbox well because humanity was and is worth saving next holiday we will launch project Scarlett with Haloso let's talk about our next console for us the console is vital and central to our experience we heard you a console should be designed and built and optimized for one thing and one thing only gaming so the same team that created the world's most powerful console Xbox one X and innovated its groundbreaking processor and the elite controller the same team that engineered the world-class compatibility of today's Xbox one consoles the same team that set the bar for live gaming services with Xbox Live this same team set out on a new mission to create the future of gaming for you when we think about the future of gaming it's not just PC it's not just console it's not just mobile it's really all of the above Xbox is all about choice we're investing in technology all throughout the game stack the games you want with the people you want on the devices that you want and for us that starts with our next-generation console we don't want to build just another console we truly want it to be transformative more immersion more exploration more detail how do we make it easier for people to get into the game to stay in the game one of the things that gamers and developers are incredibly excited about is reducing load times I'm an RPG gamer and so like loading screens are a thing sitting there in the fake elevator because you know that the game's loading in the background there's just an elevator ride forever that's our goal with gaming is that you don't have those pauses this generation is going to be a bigger leap than any generation we've done before at the heart of our next-generation console is our custom design processor leveraging the latest Xen - and Navi technology from our partners at AMD from a pure processing perspective this is four times more powerful than the Xbox one X we're leveraging high bandwidth GDD our six to ensure that we're getting the best performance possible it's gonna occur in resolution and frame rates that we've never seen before like never seen before we're looking at frame rates up to 120 frames per second 8k capability variable refresh rate next-gen ray tracing it's real-time because this hardware accelerated for the first time ever what I'm personally most excited about is the SSD we've created a new generation of SSDs we're actually using the SSD as virtual Ram we're seeing more than 40 times performance increases over the current generation the combination of the SOC and the solid-state drive are really what gives you a totally new experience now we can take all of that power and apply it back into the scene so we can actually generate more life in that world and bring it to the game or in a seamless way so that then you're fully experiencing what the game developer wants you to experience when you can move through worlds without waiting for screens to low that speed that performance is what the next generation is about this is the most immersive console experience ever what we really want to do is give developers the power to build the game they've always envisioned we have hundreds of people across both of our first party studios as well as our third party studios working on those next generation experiences today it's an amazing commitment to content at Xbox game studios 13 Studios 7 in the last year that's a big family at 343 for us it's always about more seamless worlds with the next generation we can bring the world to life in a way we've never experienced halo before we're delivering four generations of content better than you've ever seen them before this console is especially awesome four-game past members with the faster load times you're gonna be able to experience all the games within just snap your fingers we're giving gamers the option to connect across devices and across platforms in a way that we never were able to before this isn't just a console launch this is about the future of gaming your games your G your progression your accessories your console gaming experience with Xbox it all comes forward with Scarlett it eats monsters for breakfast this is project scarlet the most powerful and highest performing console we've ever designed built for creators to unleash their boldest creative visions and optimized for players to enjoy the ultimate gaming experience on a console anywhere immersive experiences begin at the very heart of the console at the silicon level itself together with our partners at AMD we have Co engineered and custom design a state of the art processor for project Scarlett power you could see defined previous generations power and performance you can see and feel defines project Scarlett when we talk about freedom to play when we talk about Xbox in the cloud when we talk about streaming your games project Scarlett and all of its power and all of its performance is the foundation of our future and console and the formation of our future in cloud we launched Xbox 18 years ago with the game reviewers called the definitive reason to own an Xbox well because humanity was and is worth saving next holiday we will launch project Scarlett with Halo\n"