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Microsoft has announced it will take the lid off Scorpio at its E3 conference on June 11, four years after the Xbox One got taken apart by Sony during E3 2013. Scorpio, in many ways, is Microsoft’s first real chance to clean up the Xbox One baggage the company has been dragging around for nearly four years.

Microsoft’s early plans for the Xbox One were vastly different from what Sony offered with the PlayStation 4. Where Sony went simple and focused on the “It plays games,” message, Microsoft went broad. The Xbox One was a multimedia system where you could watch TV and game (despite lacking a DVR). It’s Kinect 2 camera was almost as expensive as the console itself, and Redmond was investing in creative partnerships to create custom Xbox One content, enhanced apps that took advantage of Kinect 2, and a live-action Halo TV series helmed by Steven Spielberg (Microsoft insists this is still happening, but the show is now 18 months behind schedule and Phil Spencer has taken to given single-word updates on it via Twitter).

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