As the title says, I am only playing the first time for story. The second time will be later on in 2017 when the Scorpio drops. True 4k with HDR is the version i'll play with more exploration and time to take in the scenery. The first go-round will definitely be more story driven, than exploration based. I should have the pro next year, but i'll use that for exclusives, whilst everything else goes on my Xbox Scorpio. Multiplats are a must.

What do you think?

I think that I'd never play a game like Final Fantasy XV twice. There's far too many games to keep up with. But I certainly couldn't bring myself to not explore and do everything in an RPG either.

I can't treat a first playthrough as a "gimped" playthrough, if I'm going to play the game, then I'm gonna play it.

I played the Witcher 3 on hard and then the difficulty afterwards on the second playthrough once the expansions dropped. I scowered the map with a fine tooth comb but I missed out on a lot of other games in the even of that occurance. It was worth it, playing everything together. I just ran through the game the first time and played a couple side missions. The second playthrough without any blockages between the expansion, was more entertaining. I plan on doing the same thing with Dragon Age on my second playthrough. The problem with these companies is that they always leave some extra DLC or expansion for later. I think final fantasy will be worth playing twice, but at two totally different times. I didnt play the Witcher 3 in the same year.

Just making conversation. If I spoke to myself a couple years go about this current decision, I probbaly wouldn't have agreed. With that said,  both brands will have their strengths and weaknesses, I think it could make for some good conversation between the Xbox Scorpio and the Pro. This will change- up the strategy for both companies opposed to what you've seen as of late. I dont necessarily think most people thought ahead that Microsoft would've worked out a deal to get a 4k version of the game like Sony.

Well, you could also buy and play the best version now (PS4 Pro version) and sell it after finishing the game... or rent it.

If you play it again in one or two years, you buy the Xbox-version (or the PC-version) cheap from the bargain bin and play it in "True 4k with HDR".

This way you get both times the best possible version to that time point, you get both trophies and achievements and you probably even save some money on the game.

Sorry to break it to you but FFXV won't be 4k on the Scorpio or any other console, unless you want to wait for some kind of PS5 remaster

Never played a FF and my friend is trying to convince me to get it. Xbox of course

I think I might get a GTX 1080 and hope it comes to PC, I think it probably will as Final Fantasy games have been recently. I'd rather build my own scorpio, and have more power while I'm at it!

It won't be a native 2160P(4K) at all times, it might not even hit 2160P at all on Scorpio as it looks to be a very demanding game. It will probably support a higher resolution than its Pro counter-part(that's if Square even patch it 12 months later for Scorpio which I somewhat doubt) but a native 4K resolution would compromise other visual elements and frame rate heavily.

Didn't even think about that... yeah OP's plan is already flawed then... there's a good chance FFXV won't even get scorpio support.