During the recently-held E3 2016, Microsoft surprised everyone by announcing not just the Xbox One S, but the tech giant's upcoming monster of a console, a machine known only at this time as project Scorpio. With the specs that have been revealed about the device so far, the Scorpio does seem like the most powerful dedicated gaming console to date. So powerful, in fact, that it might very well be the last console that players would ever need.

Considering the upcoming console's raw power, which features 8 CPU cores and 6 teraflops of processing power, the Scorpio would indeed be a beast of a machine. Just the fact that the console could run 4K games natively and have VR support is enough to persuade most hardcore gamers that Microsoft's next machine is the console to beat in the near future.

Though other specifications of the Xbox Scorpio are unknown at this point, but rumors about its alleged features have been going on for some time. One of them, stating that Microsoft is looking into the prospect of building a console that could be upgraded like a PC, seems to point to the Scorpio. If this is indeed the case, Microsoft might very well end up making a gaming console that would last a very long time in the market.

After all, Microsoft has been pretty open about its initiatives towards unifying console and PC gamers. The tech giant has already been emphasizing compatibility between gaming platforms for some time now, to the point where some players have even complained that titles exclusive to the PC or Xbox were losing their prestige, simply because they could be played on a different platform.

In a recent interview with The Guardian, Xbox exec Mike Ybarra remarked how Microsoft is moving towards a future where games could be played across all platforms, and compatibility would no longer be an issue.

"Compatibility has always been the thing that makes console generations define themselves: when you leave one and got to the next, you give up your games, you usually give up the hardware or throw it in a closet - that's what we want to remove. We're focusing more on how do we deliver gaming in a boundless way to our players," he said.

"We announced three platforms - today's Xbox One, Xbox One S and Scorpio. We're giving gamers the choice to say, 'I want to invest in these particular games and this particular hardware, and I want those to work going forward, I don't want to have to worry about giving that up.'"

With the Scorpio said to feature no exclusive titles at all, the notion of a unified gaming ecosystem, without any worries about compatibility, does seem a lot closer to reality.

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