Microsoft Needed to Impress With the Scorpio, But Came Up Short

Good, but not the great it needed to be.
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Selling the Scorpio

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The biggest focus of Microsoft’s press conference, and undoubtedly the reason many tuned in, was the Scorpio. It was time to thrust the machine into the spotlight. That began first with sharing the goals and abilities of the console. It was made to be the most powerful video game console ever created, and it most certainly fits the bill, even managing to dwarf the capabilities of the powerful PS4 Pro. Also, the company wanted to make sure that it didn’t exist in a vacuum, separate from everything else Xbox fans have come to know and love. With that in mind, as promised before, the Project Scorpio would fully support all accessories and games that Xbox One owners are already using. All it needed was a name, and this is where the company’s creativity seemed to run out.

The Xbox One S was a no brainer. It’s a smaller Xbox One, and using S to denote more compact technology seems to be all the rage nowadays (especially with mobile devices). So when it came time to name the Scorpio, we were all ears, until we heard Xbox One X (which some kept hearing as One S). It works, but they definitely could’ve helped to differentiate it more.

The price of the console is going to be the toughest sell. The Xbox One X will be sold for $500; that’s a full $100 more expensive than the competition, and that comes with the burden of proving that value to consumers. It’s a premium price for a premium product, but not everyone considers that latter part, especially when the competition has some fine offerings. To help sell the console, it seems that games were the big focus, and Microsoft sure did show a lot of them – including 22 exclusives (timed and otherwise).

On one hand, the slew of titles showed off the power of the console with some absolutely gorgeous graphics, but on the other, there wasn’t exactly a lot that was new and fresh, which can hurt the budding hardware. Of course, we’ll have to wait and see how that plays out. 


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