Scorpio E3 Unveiling Is Do Or Die For Xbox, 1st-Party Developers Under Immense Pressure

Since the launch of the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4, Sony’s console has been trouncing Microsoft’s offering at every turn. As a result, the software giant is staking its future as a video game company on Project Scorpio, which it will be unveiling at E3 2017. On that note, it seems the Xbox team isn’t the only one under a lot of pressure since Microsoft’s first-party developers are also starting to feel the heat.

While details about the console’s specs have been released, giving weight to the claim that it is the most powerful game box in the market, there are still a lot of things about the Scorpio that people don’t know about. It still doesn’t have a name, for example, and only a handful of people know what it actually looks like in its finished form.

Microsoft will be unveiling all of this during this year’s E3 event, which should give Xbox gamers a lot to look forward to. On that note, the stakes have never been higher for the console, which is currently staring down the barrel of the same gun that ended Sega’s bid as a game box company.

Polygon emphasizes the need for Xbox to not only impress during its presentation but to absolutely blow the minds of gamers if it is to stand a chance at actually reversing the current trajectory of the console market. It needs to show that it can run cross-platform games better than its competitors, for starters, and making the multiplayer feature free would be a huge deal.

Even the game developers working directly under Microsoft are under a lot of pressure to make sure that the Scorpio succeeds as a console. Gamasutra recently spoke with developers of games like Gears of War and Forza, who told the publication that they feel an enormous amount of responsibility to prove that the Scorpio is worth developing games for.