I do find it a little funny that a 4 TFLOP PS4 in a few months for $399 is totally believable, but a 6 TFLOP XBox a full year later would be some how impossible, probably be $600, etc. etc. etc. lol.
No chance the XBox Scorpio is not a good deal more powerful than the Neo, I don't care what RAM they use. MS knows not having parity/superiority on third party multiplats hurt them and the XBOne's underpowered spec hurts them on VR also, Scorpio will address those issues.
Scorpio will be the most powerful console spec on the market when it launches probably by a good amount and will be upgradable from that point onwards too. 6 TFLOP for MS is about what I'd expect if Sony can do 4+ this year.
I don't see that number as terribly shocking or surprising, they're not going to release something a year later that was only going to be on par with the PS4 Neo, c'mon. It's not going to be like $500 or anything either I'd bet, the year gap will allow them to get a considerably better chip than whatever Sony will have.
To be honest I don't think MS is as beholden to gauruntee "parity" with old XOne models either. By 2017 they'll have given the XOne a full four years of support and it'll be gaurunteed to get at least another year of releases from that point on, which would be five full years of support. It's not like XOne is the market leader or anything, they're not beholden to support it forever, 4 years of primary support + 1 year of secondary/solid support would be decent, then they could transition more over to this newer XBox2 model or whatever it's called.
