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Soundwave on 28 May 2016
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Intrinsic said:
Fei-Hung said:

Officially speaking no one has said anything. Officially speaking we do not know if they will both have the same chip, just that one will have a higher clock speed. If rumours are to be believed, with a whole year difference between the Neo and Scorpio, the Scorpio will have a newer chip so it won't be about up clocking. It is therefore more likely that the Scorpio might actually have that extra 1-2TFs.

 

I don't want that to happen. I don't want a generation where every platform is constantly different moving forward. It sounds expensive and tit for tat. I like the organised way it is done now where you get two similar powered consoles released around the same time so as a consumer I can pick the one I like best. However, it is what it is if rumours are true. 

Yes we seem to be in agreement. My problem is how eveeyone seems to be riding on these rumours. Thr onoy thing that is pretty mivh confirmed right now is that both Sony and MS are going to release new iterative consoles. And that both of them are using a 16/14nm process which is the onoy way such a thing is possoble to begin with.

Specs, release dates and evrything in between are just rumors. But yet we have people here talking like even those are written in stone.

This is what i find most puzzling. Sony has a massive advantage currenlty in this generation. They knowthat the price, the performance edge and their focus is what has got them the win so far. Of the big 3 they are the  one that is under the least amount of pressure to do anything, I mean they have so much of a hold on the console space this gen that if they remained quiet and MS announced they were releasing the XB1.5 next month, all they have to do is say the PS4k is coming 2 months later and it will stall whatever sales rhe XB1.5 could have. 

But for some reason, there are some talking here like these arent rumours and there is some sort of commitment that sony and MS has already made that they are locked to and cant do anything about. Especially when no one has even officially announced anything yet.

For me, and i said this before, i don't even see the PS4k coming this year. They alrewdy have PSVr to oush this year, something as big as a semi new console will at yhe veey least need its own year. 

I look at all these rumors rhe same way i looked at those of orbis/durango. They were all kinda in teh same ball park all kinda true and also kinda wrong. There is just not a chance in hell sony would let MS make an upgrade that is almost twice as powerful as their own upgrade when they are all using the same vendor and especially if all it takes is waiting a year. Is there any reason anyone thinks sony won't or can't wait a year? What exactly does sony have to gain by coming a year early? 

I mean come on, the PS4 is probably the onky console in history that took its price back up from $300 to $350 after a holiday season and YOY sales still went up by 10%. Am i missing something here?

Sony is stuck because they don't want this generation to end. You make a 6 TFLOP PS4 and the gap between the machines will get too large for parity. 

MS has no real vested interest in seeing this generation drag on forever so their philosophy is different, they want more of a full next-gen machine rather than just a stop gap.