nanarchy on 15 June 2016
| thismeintiel said: There's a big problem with the Scorpio that Xbox fans probably don't want to admit. It is basically the end of Xbox HW. Mark my words, the Scorpio will be mostly sold as a Windows 10 box by Holiday 2017. MS is going to try and go up against Steam and the Steam boxes, hence why all XBO games will be launching on PC. If it fails, you will be most likely saying goodbye to MS in the console biz. And really, I can't tell who the Scorpio is for. Why spend $499 (my guess on the price) on an entire system that no longer has exclusives, when you can spend $199 and get a 5.5 Tflops GPU for your PC and play any MS Studios game you want? As for the Neo, I'm sure Sony is going to get it to 5 Tflops-5.5 Tflops. It will also be the best place to play all of the PS4's many exclusives. So, I can see that actually having a market, while Xbox's fortunes will not be turned around. |
Steam Boxes? do they even exist anymore, I thought after repeated disasterous delays and bad sales they were DOA? I would actually think it is 50/50 if there will be ANY consoles post the next gen. We are simply getting to the point where computing has evolved beyond the need for dedicated console hardware. I would see MS/Sony/Nintendo providing gaming as a service as the future post 2020 -2025 and MS seem to be looking that way too as do Sony.
Edit: a good current story for you on how bad Steam machines are doing. Pretty much how most people without some sort of steam bias expected this to go. http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/229500-steam-machine-sales-are-abysmal-steamos-may-be-dead-in-the-water
