Xbox 360 var en uhyre populær platform for udviklere, fordi spillene var relativt lette at få til at virke på maskinen, og det var så sandelig ikke tilfældet på den mere besværelige PlayStation 3. Microsoft fik en masse goodwill, men ifølge Microsofts Corporate VP, Mike Ybarra, så har de tabt nogle af dem med udgivelsen af Xbox One.
I et interview med Digital Foundry forklarer Ybarra, at de netop laver Project Scorpio for at vinde udviklernes tillid tilbage:
"The team looked back at developers and the developer relationship we have. With Xbox 360 we had the absolute best platform for developers, [with Xbox One] we sort of lost that in a two-year time-frame, so we said how do we win the mind-share of those developers back?
"We want the best games running on our box and there are tools, devkits and some arrows like that to win the developers back. So that was a big priority for us as we approached this product."
Desuden pointerer Ybarra, at udviklere lige nu foretrækker PS4 Pro, men at de håber på at kunne vende denne tendens.