The Nintendo Switch might be getting all the attention this end of the year, but come year-end, Microsoft will undoubtedly steal the spotlight with its long-awaited Project Scorpio Console.

Coming part way through the life-cycle of the existing Xbox one, the upgraded console is said to pack some significantly souped-up hardware, with talk of Microsoft introducing a device that users could upgrade themselves, much like a PC.

Now, Xbox boss Phil Spencer has poured cold water on such rumours in a response to a question concerning the whole upgradeable thing on Twitter.

Microsoft has already confirmed E3 2017 will bring a full reveal for Project Scorpio, with the console set to become available in the holiday season of 2017.

It’s said to come with an 8-core CPU and a graphics card with 6TFLOPs (trillion floating point operations per second) of power, putting the console on a par with today’s top-end graphics chips – though, by the time it launches Scorpio will be the equivalent of a mid-range PC.

There’s also the promise of full native 4K on the new device, with lead planner for Xbox, Albert Penello, previously saying: “we were very clear we wanted developers to take their Xbox One engines and render them in native, true 4K.”