Microsoft Can't Win.

[Machiavellian]

betacon said:

Machiavellian said:

Basically what you are saying that Sony will have to scrap pretty much everything they have done if the rumors are true.  Probably bite billions in contracts, RD, Beta systems and a whole buch of misc stuff that goes along with a hardware cycle, eat all that cost when they are in a recovery period and then go back to the drawing board and do it all over again.  Yeah, thats probably not going to happen.  Even though its a gamer fantasy that these companies can just absord huge lost just because a competitor might have an edge, it really do not work out that way.

What the neo is going to be sold along side the base ps4, they wont have to rip up any deals.

To compete with the Scorpio it would not be a slight change and thus cost exponentially more.  I really do not believe a lot of you know the scale of such a change would cost but you can believe its not minor.  The most probably Sony could do is some overclocks in memory, GPU, CPU and even then probably not a lot.  Its not like they are purchasing retail products but the defects that come off the line that does not have a lot of head room for Overclocking.  Even then they have to be very careful with heat since the system they are looking to put in does not have the same active cooling to handle excess heat.