I don't get MS's plan, announcing this early, Scrap NEO? PS5 in 2018?

[Ganoncrotch]

JRPGfan said:

Because they re hopeing to stop people buying PS4 neo's.
Even if it means throwing their own new slim console under the bus.

It's not just the Slim console or the Scorpio that does this though,I was thinking back over it, basically the MS show looked great but if you think about what happened on stage.

 - They revealed the X1 - S really beautiful looking piece of hardware, great design, nice (but chunky) controller remodel and a price that anyone can jump in at.

 - They then went on to show about 1 straight hour of Windows 10 PC games, which would also be compatible with the X1 (clearly everything being shown on stage was PC hardware versions of those games and not the non inferior X1 power) So slightly stabbing the X1S in the back here, but still... at $299 it's a cheap way to get access to PC games on the TV scree.

 - End the show... Okay the X1S gets a bullet in the head in 18 months time, absolutely going to be dead in the water, to even believe that a game designed for a machine with the levels of power in the Scorpio would run in any capacity on the X1 or X1S I mean, you would be looking at running software around the 5-10fps mark if at all with that power gap, it would the the equivilent of buying a new PC game right now and installing it in a Pentium 4, sure... it might start up and get to the menu, but would it be playable or enjoyable, of course not.

So yeah... showed the X1S, great pop from the crowd, then just shot it twice in the back over the next hour, such a shame really when you look at the show as a whole.