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Soundwave on 15 June 2016
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Barkley said:
torok said:

RAM is easy to increase. Replacing a CPU or GPU is a no-go close to release. If it is releasing in 2017, the biggest change they can do is to activate ROPs or other parts that they may have disabled to increase yelds or overclock it slightly.

I disagree, it's not exactly close to release. 18 months is more than enough time to change the hardware, or going from when the supposed Neo specs were leaked 20 months. This isn't an entirely new console, this is a PlayStation 4 with much stronger hardware. It probably wasn't even given the greenlight till the end of 2014.

So then what do you do when MS bumps their spec? If Sony can do it on such a short time span, the Scorpio which is about 18 months out could easily probably do the same. 

Sony probably knows this too, I think they'll stick with the Neo as is, but we'll see. 

I think MS has internally made the decision that they cannot have weaker hardware than Sony, and they're probably right.