Xbox One X, formerly known as Project Scorpio, has a reason why it will cost 499 dollars/euros.

Mike Ybarra, corporate vice president of Xbox and Windows Gaming, told Polygon the following: „When we looked at the overall design, we could do less memory. We could do under-clocked components, so we don’t have to have the cooling system that we have in here. […] We showed them the smallest Xbox we’ve ever created, the most power, the best price per performance you can get anywhere, in this box. That’s what we’re delivering. […] [at $399] we wouldn’t have been able to usher in 4K to the living room, and that was a design pillar for this box. There are lots of goals in the program, from compatibility to everything. But one, let’s usher in true 4K where developers don’t have to think about, ‘Wow, how do we stretch this and make it work?’ We needed to deliver that to consumers. They asked us for uncompromised true 4K in the living room. And so we leveraged a lot of PC technology, from the cooling, the power management system that’s in this, to get it this small — while managing acoustics. That was the goal.”

So Microsoft didn’t want to cut corners. However, gamers that are more cautious of the price than the others will end up turning to the PlayStation 4 Pro, which costs 20% less than the Xbox One X. We didn’t even mention the list of exclusive titles yet…