If only AMD gave us APU like this... Years and years they have this technology working... People would love it in HTPC as small linux/windows boxes with great performance. I have always said the same thing myself and I think it has something to do with licensing they have with Sony and Microsoft.

Microsoft confirms Xbox One will support 4K resolution and 3D Microsoft's Larry Hryb (Major Nelson) has confirmed that the Xbox One hardware is able to output in 4K resolution and will support 3D content, following the console's big reveal on Tuesday. The official word came during a Yahoo chat session held on Wednesday, at which Hyrb said: "Xbox One supports both 3-D and 4K," when responding to a question. Of course, games are not yet supported in 4K, as the technology has not been made mainstream to game studios. But on the Xbox One, users will have the ability to play 4K resolution movies through the Blu-ray drive when the console launches later this year, if they have the oh so expensive television to support it. However unlike the PlayStation 4 that won't support 4K games, Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi told Forbes that if the technology did arise, the Xbox One could handle 4K games and other 4K content down the road. Microsoft has done a bit of future-proofing here, for when 4K makes its way into more homes across the world in the coming years. "There's no hardware restriction there at all," Mehdi said. Until we see the 4K shift, the Xbox One will output games in 1080p.

Project Scorpio Will Run Microsoft Games at Native 4K Resolution In a recent interview, Microsoft Studios Publishing general manager Shannon Loftis confirms that all first-party Xbox One Project Scorpio titles will run at native 4K. Choice seems to be a word that can accurately describe this current console generation as both Microsoft and Sony are in the process of releasing new hardware models for its consoles. Already, fans have seen the Xbox One S alongside a new PlayStation 4 Slim, and soon upgraded variants like the recently revealed PlayStation 4 Pro will arrive. Since Sony’s reveal event, Microsoft has not hesitated in pushing back with more news about its upcoming console, codenamed Project Scorpio, and how that system will continue to be the world’s most powerful console when it launches. Microsoft Studios Publishing general manager Shannon Loftis continued this trend in a recent interview, confirming that first party titles that are made for Xbox One Project Scorpio will run at native 4K. At this time, this piece of news only affects first-party Microsoft games and it’s unclear on what third-party titles will be doing once the console arrives on store shelves. “Any games we’re making that we’re launching in the Scorpio time frame, we’re making sure they can natively render at 4K.” The news comes on the heels of Sony receiving criticism for misleading consumers over the fact that the PlayStation 4 Pro will need to upscale its games to 4K instead of natively rendering them. Sony executive Andrew House came out to counter these claims saying that the term to describe the process doesn’t matter as much as whether or not players actually see a difference with the product.

I'm pretty sure Microsoft stated it has a 6TFLOP GPU in it. EDIT: http://www.ign.com/wikis/xbox-one/Project_Scorpio Yeah, they already announced its 6Tflops. 980Ti is 5.6tflops and is more than capable of handling most games at 4K@30 - which is where consoles will be targeting anyway. Couple that with with consoles just having better optimization in general and there should be no need for weird upscaling tech. 2D/Indie/Smaller games with lesser graphics should easily be able to hit 4K@60. So I don't know why people are making it sound like 4K gaming is far fetched for it. Seems perfectly doable.

More TFLOPS (I really hate that that term) doesn't always equate to a better 4k experience. In some cases it can actually be worse. The PS4 Pro can already do 4k @ 30fps. So I don't see how scorpo will excite anyone. The specs may be better but the performance will be the same.

Lol.. This is like saying a Bugatti Veyron isn't always faster because it could potentially race without wheels. Yeah, unless AMD decides to like butcher it's architecture and stick 2GB of ram on a 4K gaming machine with a 12 bit bus - more tflops is better. We're obviously assuming a balanced architecture. Also the PS4 Pro does 4K@30 in some games - in others it does the checkboard upscaling. It's also essentially a crossfire setup - as opposed to one GPU and it's 1.8Tflops slower and based on an older architecture. The PS4 had a .5tflop advantage over the Xbox One and there were plenty of games that ran faster and/or at a higher resolution on the PS4 and that was only a half a tflop.

Is there a noticeable difference in graphical fidelity between checkboard and true 4k?

Is there a noticeable difference in graphical fidelity between checkboard and true 4k?

Even if you make the argument that there is no visible difference with checkboarding.. Microsoft can do checkboarding and then use the extra performance to increase draw distance, or add objects/advanced shaders/etc, or improve framerate, or a combination of all the above - which will noticeably increase graphics quality.

I think MS should be more worried about Xboxs gaming library than in releasing a more powerfull version of the current Xbox... Good hardware is nice and all but only if it has good software to go with it...