The hardware, formerly known as Project Scorpio, revealed itself.

Microsoft is clever: you can put together XBOX out of the Xbox One X name. Joke aside, let’s get the technical details out of the way first: 1.172 GHz GPU capable of 6 TLOPS performance, 12 GB DDR5 memory (out of which 9 GB can be used by the developers, thanks to a recent update), and a 326 GB/s memory bandwidth defines the console, which has a price tag and a release date.

The October 13 date is not going to happen. Make that November 7. However, the price rumors were true: 499$/499€/449£. The Xbox One X, which is promising faster loading times than the X1S/X1, will supersample games to 4K if they don’t run natively on that resolution, have HDR, and despite having a unique, liquid-cooled vapor chamber, this Xbox is the smallest ever.

A few games that will support the X1X (that also looks awkward…): Gears of War 4, Forza Horizon 3, Resident Evil 7, Final Fantasy XV, Rocket League, Ghost Recon: Wildlands, Minecraft.

It’s Sony’s chance to deliver a blow: if they announce a price cut for the PlayStation 4 Pro during their E3 conference, the PRICE will be the decisive factor between the two companies. (Previously, the PlayStation 3 launched with a higher price than what Microsoft had for the Xbox 360, although with more power under the hood. The Japanese company seems to have learned their lesson.)

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