E3 2019: Microsoft strikes first in video game console battle with Xbox successor in 2020

LOS ANGELES – Microsoft just started the console war – and the Master Chief is leading the way. The software and video game giant plans to bring a new video game console, currently codenamed "Project Scarlett," to market in time for holiday 2020. And it will have a new game "Halo Infinite" on tap for the new console's launch. In announcing the plans at the Electronic Entertainment Expo here Sunday, Phil Spencer, Microsoft's head of Xbox, called it "the most powerful and highest performing console we have ever designed." Whereas past succeeding generations of consoles provided a difference in graphic fidelity, Project Scarlett, Spencer said has a leap in processing power "you can see and feel."