- 1 year advantage.

- $100 advantage.

- Momentum.

- ICE Team 'coding to the metal', making Sony's games look and run the same as Scorpio, despite the power difference. (Or at least very close)

- Better and more diverse software line-up.

- Exclusive games.



You guys made me change my mind. !

Please release Neo this fall.

This whole 'Scorpio is more powerful, caught Sony off guard' thing is tiresome. Firstly, the idea that companies like Sony or MS find out about each other plans through E3 announcements is laughably naive, these are massive multinational companies with dozens of interrelated supplier relationships that no number of NDA's can prevent the leaking of product plans and details.

Secondly, the initial PS4 rumours pointed to a 36CU GPS at 911MHz, from which 4.5teraflops was calculated. What we know of Scorpio is it has a 6 teraflops, 2304SP GPU. The thing is, the Radeon RX480 is a 2304SP, 36CU GPU estimated to run at 5.5teraflops. Is it a coincident that the PS4 Neo has the same number of CU's as the RX480 whilst Scorpio has the same number of SP's as the RX480? A GPU that's about to be released at $199?

I don't think so, especially given AMD's somewhat limited engineering capacity these days. It's far more likely that Scorpio and Neo are running the same silicon given the similar core specs, and likely differ in clockspeed only. Run Neo's GPU at 1.2GHz and you have 6 teraflops. Will that generate more heat? Sure, but that's not insurmountable, especially given we have no idea what Neo will look like, whether it will be bigger or the same size as the current PS4.

Would such a chance affect developer much? Again, probably not, especially since any change is a change for more processing power not less. At worst, the first games released won't be optimized to use the additional power, which wouldn't be an issue if it releases ahead of Scorpio.

Until Sony announce the actual specs, no one can say how the two will compare. What we can say is that MS has introduced two powerful incentives to hold off buying a XB1 right now, with the abandonment of Xb1 exclusive titles and the knowledge that its effective replacement is 18months away. The Slim will help that to a degree, and you'll get a lot of existing XB1 owners updating to get the smaller size and larger storage, but I feel it won't be enough to offset the negative affect over the next 12months