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setsunatenshi on 03 June 2016
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Azuren said:
setsunatenshi said:

Yes, that's true, plus there has been no indication at all that this new Xbox would be sharing the game library with the Xbox 1, so I tend to think it would actually be a new 'generation' and MS throwing in the towel earlier.

If the supposed 5.5 TFLOPs performance is true then it means they are done with esram completely (good for them, about time) which would mean a complete change in architecture.

The reason why not many seem to care is because afterall only 20M were sold so far and the initial vision has changed so much (mandatory kinect, always online drm, cloud computing processing graphics for games lol,etc) that pretty much everyone is quite jaded by now.

MS was caught with the pants down screwing the maid this generation and no matter what they would do it would still look stupid, probably they realized it's time to reset and get a fresh start. Too little too late? perhaps

The problem with that is prematurely kickstarting 9th Gen will land them even more ire, since Sony will likely not play along. Considering the user base, PS4 will get the majority of exclusives, though maybe not the best console versions. For Scorpio to be successful, it'd have to stoop down to 8th Gen, which would defeat the purpose of such a beefy upgrade.

 

MS stands to split their already smaller userbase and then piss off a lot of people when 99% of their games don't have better engines than their PS4 counterparts. An early 9th Gen would be an early grave for Xbox.

I agree with that as well, added to the fact that 1st party wise Xbox is in a terrible shape, small precence in Europe, nearly invisible presence in Japan (Asia) and starting from 0 all over again. I mean... they probably have some cards to play, like trying to bring a full Windows experience to a unified box, but knowing their modus operandi, they would try to push Live instead of partenering up with Steam and really opening up their library with the already existing PC market. Basically trying to play both sides at the same time.

That's what I can imagine would be a possible strategy, but I don't know if it would be a winning one.