This past Thursday, Xbox One fans all over the globe jumped for joy. This is due to the fact that that Digital Foundry was given the opportunity to finally reveal the official Specifications for the Microsoft’s “Project Scorpio”. The Xbox Scorpio is a mid-generation console upgrade, similar to the PlayStation 4 Pro, however, there is a twist. Project Scorpio is supposed to dethrone the PlayStation 4 Pro as the most powerful console on the planet while also digging Microsoft out of the hole the Xbox One Launch put them in. Judging by the console specifications we received, the Xbox Scorpio will do just that.

Everything about Microsoft’s Project Scorpio shadows the PlayStation 4 Pro. For example, The PlayStation 4 Pro features eight overclocked Jaguar core CPUs running at 2.1GHz while Project Scorpio will feature eight custom x86 core CPUs running at 2.3 GHz. Project Scorpio will also feature 40 customized GPU compute units running in at 1172 MHz while the PlayStation 4 Pro only has 36 improved GPU compute units that run at 911 MHz. This is also a major upgrade from the Original Xbox One as it only had 12 GPU compute units running at 853 MHz. The RAM that is under the hood is where Project Scorpio really shadows all other gaming consoles. This is because Project Scorpio will feature 12 Gigabytes of GDDR5 RAM will the PlayStation 4 Pro only featured 8 Gigabytes of GDDR5 RAM. The original Xbox One only had 8 Gigabytes of GDDR3 RAM, which was always seen as outdated technology. Project Scorpio will also muscle the PlayStation 4 Pro in the fact that Project Scorpio will have a Memory Bandwidth of 326 GB/s while the PlayStation 4 Pro 218 GB/s.

Possibly the most controversial difference between Project Scorpio and the PlayStation 4 Pro is the fact that Project Scorpio will have the ability to play 4k Ultra HD Blue-ray discs. The PlayStation 4 Pro only has the ability to Playback regular Blue-ray discs, which has left the gaming industry confused sine Sony owns the Blue-ray technology.

The only area in which Project Scorpio and the PlayStation 4 Pro share similarities is the fact that they are both being shipped with 2.5 inch hard drive with a capacity of 1 terabyte, however it is unclear whether consumers will have the ability to upgrade the hard drive to a larger capacity hard drive.

Despite all the information provided by Digital Foundry, gamers are still curious as to what Microsoft will name Project Scorpio and more importantly the price that Microsoft will be charging for what they call a “premium product”. With all the time and money that has been put into the development of Project Scorpio and the PlayStation 4 Pro, gamers can't help but ask why these weren’t the consoles that launched this generation of console gaming 3 years ago.