Sadly not many people buy consoles based on the hardware specifications.
MS has a miserably weak lineup of exclusives for the future and not much in the way of 3rd party marketing deals either.
With Sony already having marketing rights and bundles with all the big 3rd party titles such as Resident Evil 7, Mass Effect Andromeda, Destiny 2, Red Dead Redemption 2, Call of Duty, etc. And of course this is mostly due to the fact that all the publishers want to advertise their games with PS4 as that's where the majority of sales come from.
Then Sony has a huge list of exclusive titles both 1st party and 3rd party, while Microsoft's lineup is not only small but also doesn't have anything big, the biggest title they have is Halo Wars 2 which is a spinoff. Crackdown is a very mid tier franchise that can't even compete with something like Ratchet and Clank in terms of popularity. Scalebound, you can say is on the level of a Nier 2, Sea of Thieves looks like a free to play title you can compare to Drawn to Death. Then there's State of Decay 2, and the first one got below average reviews and didn't sell much either, I don't even know why this sequel is getting made.
So how MS plans to advertise the Scorpio is a million dollar question. Unless MS has a dozen odd potential blockbuster titles they're hiding waiting to be revealed at E3 and out the door by year end, Scorpio is going to be dead on arrival.







