Watch Xb one sales fall off even more. Why bother buying Xb one now when you can get a far superior machine next year with full backwards compatibility. Will probably be able to play Xb360 games natively too.
If Sony shows Neo now, without a launch date, then they would get shit for not having a launch date. If they showed Neo now with a launch date that's not later this year, then they negatively affect holiday 2016 sales.
Given Neo is merely supposed to be an intragen upgrade they don't need much lead time between announcement and launch. The timeframe is more like the launch of a slim model rather than a new gen machine. So if they plan to release Neo Q2 of 2017, they could announce the date at PAX in January 2017.
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