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kitler53 on 13 June 2016
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Nautilus said:
vivster said:

Common sense is a great alternative for not knowing exact facts. We are at a point where nothing Sony's competitors do will affect them negatively. They have the current console market on lock for the next years. People will not suddenly buy a Scorpio because the Neo is a teraflops slower. Microsoft does not have the exclusives and NX is targeting a completely different market.

So no, they don't have to hide anything because nothing what competitors do will negatively impact their sales.

You confuse common sense with assumptions.The 360 last generation was selling much better than the PS3, but Sony managed to turn the tides of it, comercially speaking of course.That is an example to show that you can turn the tides of things.But most importanly, Scorpio will be a new generation, by the way Microsoft explained it.They said Scorpio would have backwards compatibility, but never said the other way around would work.And even if it did, then the console would have no appeal at all, since it couldnt use the full potential of the console(or the XOne version would suck to the point that the true version to play is going to be the Scorpio one).By that I mean, Microsoft is going for a new market.And we dont know what the NX is, and we dont know what market it is targeting.

So yeah, if Sony gets cocky because it is winning now, we will have a PS3 situation all over again.

sony turned the tide around on ps3 by investing in first party games to release an steady stream of first party exclusives.

so...

A) having watch this conference it was a year of reshowing the games announced last year and forza horizon 3 (which in itself isn't surprising since it is an annual franchise now).  clearly ms is making no such investment in their first party.

B) ms announced that all their games are coming to pc.  while in theory this is a great thing history has shown that gamers do not like games that are not true exclusives.  their exclusives will now always be viewed as "exclusives" instread of exclusives.

C) ps4 and ps4 neo is stated forwards/backwards compatible.  this means 3rd parties will develop a game targeting scorpio's hardware exclusively.  it doesn't matter that scorpio isn't advertised as BC with xbox one,.. developers don't like making games for small user bases to begin and you saw this with the long tail of support for 360/ps3 heading into this gen.  with playstation is mandating "last gen" support on neo that tail will only last longer.  no 3rd party will do anything substantial with scorpios specs for years unless the game is fully excusive to the platform which would be financial sucide.

 

without 3rd party exclusives,.. with few if any 1st party "exclusives",.. ms is going to have a hard time marketing why the upgrade is needed.