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setsunatenshi on 16 June 2016
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teigaga said:
setsunatenshi said:
it seems too many assumptions are being made here and does it not seem very strange that,

1- MS is giving TFLOP targets 16/18 months before release?

2- Sony is keeping hush hush on details when they supposedly were going to release the Neo this year?

I suspect Sony will be revising which GPU they go for with AMD and which price point they want to reach. If the neo was really going to be out as soon as we previously assumed there would be an announcement made.

MS tipped their hand really early and that gives a huge amount of time for the current hardware leader to chill and mount a battle plan.

Honestly I hope so, the more powerful the console becomes, the better :)

Not necessarily. Hardware revisions are normally announced a month or 2 in advance

Microsoft Announcing Scorpio so early when they didn't even do that for the Xbox One is more confusing. Potentially to avoid consumer backlash from letting people lap up the Xbox One S whilst planning something even bigger the following yera, but maybe also because they know sony is releasing Neo this fall and wants to get the word out there.

It's still a very suspicious move, especially since Andrew House pretty much confirmed the week before to the WSJ that the Neo is real and there will be an upgrade, but then not even teasing it or mentioning anything about it on the conference to me indicates that the specs are not final. One of the initial rumors was that the CPU was not set in stone at the time as Sony was trying to figure out where to price the console.

With MS pretty much going like "fuck it, we'll go this far", all of a sudden gives Sony the idea of how far they can push the price and still have the best perceived value compared to their competitor.

I do think they should go all in and push for the high end, that's the segment of the market that will buy a 2nd console during the generation and is very performance oriented.

In any case I'm ready to drop some cash, now I just need to see at what specs they settle at.