The power gap between Scorpio and Neo is irrelevant for 3rd party developers, because the 3rd parties are required to make their games playable on original 8th gen specs. Sony's not allowing 3rd parties to make games playable only on Neo, and aside from VR MS has also said all games will be forward compatible.
Hence no developer is going to optimise the the upgraded hardware for a long time yet. upwards of 80 million PS4s in homes by the time Scorpio comes out cannot be ignored by 3rd parties, and probably 60 million original spec'd PS4 in homes by the time Neo launches as well. It will be years before the player base on either of the upgraded platforms makes developers see og PS4 and XB one as irrelevant.
With VR, I think MS is looking to bring about a more rapid change to a Scorpio only player base. If VR gets big, I think MS is hoping consumers will drop pre-Scorpio skus like a hot potato. Sony seems to be less concerned about moving the whole player base across to Neo.
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