Microsoft to reveal specs for its next Xbox, Project Scorpio, this week

We’ll soon hear more about Microsoft’s vision for the future of Xbox, which presumably includes 4K gaming.

There’s been a lot of talk about Microsoft’s mid-generation successor to the Xbox One. It’s rumored to be a far more powerful than Sony’s new, fully 4K-capable PS4 Pro. But, so far, nothing has been confirmed. However, Microsoft plans to make things official by revealing its next console’s innards ahead of a full unveiling at E3 2017. On 4 April at 9am ET, Microsoft is detailing the console’s specs to Digital Foundry.

Project Scorpio is the codename for Microsoft’s next Xbox. It was teased at E3 2016, but we expected to hear far more about it at this year’s event in June – including its actual name. The main crux of Project Scorpio is delivering uncompromised 4K gaming. That’s a different position to the already available Xbox One S, which supports 4K Ultra HD sources like Netflix, but it cannot play games in 4K.

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Previous reports have claimed that Project Scorpio will run at six teraflops, where as the PS4 Pro has 4.2 teraflops of graphical power. Microsoft might also boost the 8GB of DDR3 RAM / 32MB of ESRAM with 12GB of GDDR5 memory. Scorpio could even have a more “compact” design. We should know more on Thursday, and by this June, everything about this new system should be confirmed.

See Pocket-lint’s Project Scorpio guide to see what else it might feature.