Project Scorpio is now called Xbox One X

12 Jun 2017

Steve Wright

Microsoft started up its E3 press conference this morning with a look at Project Scorpio.

The opening of the conference gave us our first look at, “the most powerful console ever made, as described by Microsoft’s Phil Spencer, shown above.

The console’s reveal trailer can be viewed below:

The console allows for true 4K gaming, with 6 all-important teraflops of power and 9GB of GDDR5 RAM available to developers.

The Xbox One X will be available worldwide on 7 November. Pricing has been confirmed at $499 USD, or $649 AUD.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.