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Everything we know about the Xbox Scorpio console reveal

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Microsoft will reveal details of its Project Scorpio video game console tomorrow with Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry site.

Microsoft officials confirmed that they have given an exclusive on the news to Digital Foundry, despite our pleading and crying and anger about why GamesBeat didn’t get the scoop. (If anyone else wants to leak the news to us, you are welcome to do so). Microsoft tells us they aren’t doing interviews after the reveal.

The news is expected to focus on the hardware details. Microsoft has already said that the Scorpio system will run at 6 teraflops, far faster than the Xbox One’s 1.3 teraflops performance. The 6 teraflops is on par with where the top gaming PCs were a year ago.

It’s not clear which games will be shown off soon. Among the titles Microsoft has in the works are Forza 7, State of Decay 2, and Crackdown 3 from its first-party studios.

Microsoft has also said the machine will support 4K gaming, 320 gigabytes per second of memory bandwidth, and eight central processing unit cores.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.