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Bryank75 on 26 May 2016
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Intrinsic said:
Fei-Hung said:

By now, everyone knows or has heard why Sony or MS can't go slim unless they remove the disc drive. Sony won't remove the drive nor will MS or Sony take up the costs for an expensive 16nm chip since AMD won't. 

 

Sony was clearly planning ahead of MS to release a slim hence they are ready to release their upgrade this year whilst MS like most of this gen has been behind and playing catch up. However, this has allowed them to react to Sonys leaked specs and release a more powerful upgrade at a later date. 

Do you think sony doesnt know the benefits of being the most powerful box on the market? You think they have been living in a bubble this past 2.5yrs? 

Yes, we all know why a "slim" can't theoretically happen. But with the rumored new hardware i think its just unwise to think or assume anything is written in stone now barring any offical announcements. 

Just like with the PS4/XB1, the Neo/Scorpio will be very veey similar being that they sre buying from the exactbsame vendor. I simply do not see how sony will choose to use the same chip that MS is using but clock it lower knowing fully well that will give MS the advanatge they have enjoyed for the past 2+ yrs. Espwcially when thwy are under no pressure from anyone to do so.

We know they are both using Polaris, we know they are both going with somwthing 36CU variant of the GPU chip. if the clock of the chip is all that deteemines if you hsve 4tf/6tf.... why would sony put themselves in a posyion like that? It jist makes no sense to me. 

Sony has bot officially said anything about the neo. Not a single peep. 

Doesn't really matter anymore, if the next xbox is only late 2017, Sony can upgrade again in 2018..... the Neo will already have been out nearly a year by the time Xbox 1.5 comes out and upgrades can be as fast or slow as they want now. 

Xbox also does not have true exclusives anymore.