They agree on one thing, they can't keep selling the same hardware for the same price for the rest of the gen. The current designs can not be made cheaper as 20nm planar dies turned out to be a bust. Both have no choice but to turn to 14nm finfet designs. Since that means starting out at a high price point again, might as well beef up the specs to sweeten the deal.
I wonder what's in the XBox One S, yet since it's still bigger than a ps4 and is basically the same price with not even a bigger hdd at that price point, I suspect it's still a 28nm design. Sure it has 4k blu-ray playback and hdmi 2.0 yet those are minor upgrades that are only possible now since the specs weren't finalized yet at release. (It's just a bdxl reader with aacs 2.0 drm)
Nothing so far indicates a new post generational mobile phone like console model. Ofcourse if the premium versions turn out to be a hit with consumers and developers, it might go that way. I hope not. Nothing as bland as buying a new iPad iteration with everything only going a little bit faster with a few more pixels.
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