Is the Xbox Scorpio coming too late? Or is MS trying to reinvent console gens?

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teigaga said:

GribbleGrunger said:
I think you'll find it's Sony who are re-inventing the console cycle and MS who are having to do the same at a later date.

Kind of this.

But MS did speak on it publicly before the PS4k Rumours started...

I hope for Microsoft sake that this is them getting rid of the console cycle and this is more or less their "next gen" system which will slowly start to get its on exclusives and be forward compatible with whatever they release in the 2020s. 

For sony at least it definitely appears from the rumours like Neo is just a mid-gen upgraded SKU ala N3DS. Nothing intending to replace thePS4.

For mid gen cycles or shorter gen cycles to work there must be complete forward and BC. And everything MS is doing with UWP shows that they are already very well invested in that concept. 

As for new consoles and/or slightly upgraded skus, call it what you want but i think they are both going to be even more similar this time around than they were when the PS4/XB1 first launched. They are getting their chips from the same place after all and they know more about what eachother is doimg than we would ever know.

On another note, an intersting thing that occured to me is that if they are both using polaris, we are all here talking about the 36CU variant of the chip, they could also put in similarly specced variant of the chip to what is already in the consoles now, so a 14/16/18CU variant of it clocked higher and put in a smaller box and sell that as their slim consoles while having the higher end chips be their premium consoles.