Microsoft & Sony are launching new 4K & VR capable gaming consoles next year & why this means AMD's FreeSync is now more important than ever.

The cat is now officially out of the bag,Microsoft announcedearlier today at its E3 conference ProjectScorpio. A next generation gaming console with over four and a half times the performance of the company's current XBOX One game console.

Excerpt from Microsoft's E3 Press Release

Project Scorpio. Coming Holiday 2017, Project Scorpio will be the most powerful console ever created, with 6 teraflops of GPU delivering a premier console gaming experience including true 4K gaming and high fidelity virtual reality. Project Scorpio will join the Xbox One family and coexist alongside Xbox One and Xbox One S and all of your Xbox One games and accessories are compatible.

With an 8 core CPU and a monstrous GPU rated at 6 TFLOPS of horsepower, the XBOX ONE X simply eclipses the1.23 TFLOPS XBOX ONE. Sony's own 4K & VR ready Playstation Pro game console also represents a considerable jump from its original PS4 device. With a 4 TFLOPS GPU and 12GB of memory instead of 8, developers have a lot more to work with.