E3 2016

Spoiler:

Sources: Smaller Xbox One Coming This Year, More Powerful Xbox One In 2017

[UPDATE] Polygon has reported that the performance target for the upgraded Xbox One "Scorpio" is 6 teraflops. If true, this means the "Scorpio" would run at more than four times the power of the regular Xbox One, which is set at 1.32 teraflops. The original story follows:

Microsoft is expected to announce an Xbox One hardware revision and multiple new streaming devices at E3 in June, according to Microsoft blogger and podcaster Brad Sams.

According to Sams, who held a livestream on YouTube discussing information he had received from sources, "the Xbox mini is a real thing."

Although he didn't provide further details on it, The Verge's Tom Warren has said the "new Xbox at E3 will be 40 percent smaller."

Sams' sources have also indicated a more significant hardware revision is planned, but won't be announced at E3 2016. It is more likely for next year, he said.

Shortly after the livestream finished, Kotaku published an article claiming that Microsoft is preparing "at least two new Xbox models for release in the next two years."

According to Kotaku, this year's model is believed to include a 2TB hard drive, while next year's model is codenamed Scorpio and will have a more powerful GPU. It will also be "technically capable of supporting the Oculus Rift." This may have been foreshadowed by the partnership between Microsoft and Oculus, which paved the way for Xbox One controllers to be included with retail bundles of the VR device.