Xbox Project Scorpio Release Date, Price & Updates: Microsoft's High-End Console To Have High Price Tag?

Xbox Project Scorpio is one of the most anticipated powerful console rumored to come out next year. Microsoft's latest innovation could be one expensive luxury item.

An article in Game Rant discussed the possible price of Xbox Project Scorpio, an excerpt from the article states that "Scorpio will be a premium console. It will cost more than S, obviously, that's how we are building it. We have not announced the pricing yet, but I want to make sure that the investment we are putting into the product of Scorpio meets the demands of the higher-end consumer and that will be a higher price." Which means that Xbox Project Scorpio could be more powerful and more expensive than the PS4 Pro.

The Xbox One S carries a $350 price tag, the PS4 Pro costs $399.00. Microsoft's Premium Console could go as high as $500. Project Scorpio is said to end the console generations. Ending console generations would mean that Xbox Project Scorpio is going to be the last console a gamer would ever need. Microsoft's Project Scorpio hardware boasts an 8-core CPU and a graphics card with 6TFLOPs (trillion floating point operations per second) of power which is comparable to mid-range PC's by the time of its launch and it's obviously VR capable, according to Trusted Reviews.

Xbox Project Scorpio is described as a powerful device that comes at an extraordinary price for a gaming console. For Microsoft's new console to succeed, it needs to have the approval of the consumers. The capability of the current next-gen may not have been fully utilized yet.

The goal of Microsoft's Project Scorpio is to end the console generation is a good concept. However, there's always a catch for these type of selling points and that is Project Scorpio's biggest secret is yet to be revealed. Microsoft's high-end console is set for release next year.