So yesterday Microsoft made some pretty big announcements at their E3 2017 press conference last night, and I must say, they did a great job in delivering their content to the audience. From a reveal of Project Scorpio right through to exclusive gaming titles getting ready for release.

Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox was first to appear on stage to welcome the conference to E3 2017 and to reveal the new Xbox One X console, also known as Project Scorpio. Launching worldwide in November, the Xbox is promising to be the most powerful console on the market, overtaking Sony and their latest Playstation 4 Pro.

They weren’t slow at getting out the specs either. Kareem Choudhry was quick to enter the stage to give us  quick number crunch on what kind of hardware we’re going to see inside the Xbox One X. Six TFLOPS of GPU processing power clocked at 1.172ghz, 12GB of DDR5 RAM Memory and 326mb/s memory bandwidth. It walks all over the Playstation Pro in terms of internal specification, but will it match the popularity needed to put Xbox back on top? They’re also promising 4K image quality.

They’re really listening to Xbox users as feedback suggested that they wanted complete backward compatibility. That means older games and older accessories will work with Xbox One X. They’re even increasing game libraries to look better with “enhanced visual fidelity, anisotropic filtering and faster loading times.” 4K games coming in the future will look even better on a 1080p TV.

The Scorpio name that the Xbox One X lived under for so long relates to the processor that Xbox are using in their new console. In a nutshell it’s a lot faster than other consoles, including other Xboxes on the market. They’ve also implemented watercooling in the form of vapour chambers. All of this is also in a much smaller package physically than the older Xbox One.

Dan Greenawalt, the creative director behind Forza Motorsport followed up by announcing the world debut of Forza 7 and their six year partnership with Porsche. They even unveiled the new 2018 Porsche 911GT2 RS. Shannon McIntosh, a professional Porsche race car driver gave us a demonstration of the car inside Forza 7 on Xbox One X. Verena Mei, another race car driver used a Nissan GT-R. Forza 7 looks absolutely amazing, running at native 4K at 60fps. With dynamic lighting and what looks like a day/night cycle on longer races, Forza 7 feels truly immersive. It’s coming October 3rd 2017 so keep an eye out for that one.

Spencer reappeared to discuss the various titles that are coming to Xbox One X including 22 exclusive titles. Overall there will be 42 titles released with the new console.

First game up was the brand new Metro Exodus. With stunning 4K visuals, and an impressive gameplay demo, the world premiere of the game went down a storm. Games started racking off one by one which included a mixture of exclusive titles and games that were launching multi platform. All of them included some extremely detailed visuals thanks to their new image processors.

One title that stood out was Seas Of Thieves, a multiplayer title that sees you as a type of pirate, a sea explorer of old, searching for treasure, looting enemy strongholds and intense naval battles with canon fire and storming enemy ships. It’s an exclusive title coming to Xbox One X only and its cartoon style art design looks amazing in 4K.

Lastly, Bioware introduced Anthem, which we saw during the EA press conference a couple of days ago, but gameplay footage was saved up for the Xbox One X announcement where as before we only got a sniff of what Anthem was about.

So what did you think of the announcements from Xbox this year? Excited about the Xbox One X console? What about their exclusive game titles? Let us know in the comments what you are looking forward to from Microsoft, and  we will also keep you posted on more news coming from E3 this year.