| GribbleGrunger said: This statement is a chess move. The Scorpio is more powerful and as such could be seen as a new generation. By saying this now it puts the ball in Miscrosoft's court and forces them to consider how they approach the marketing carefully. They had more leeway before this statement and gave Sony the headache. This redresses the balance a little. As it stood, MS could change the messaging based on how things stood nearer to the launch. They could adjust it from 'iterative' to 'new cycle' and no one would have thought twice about it. By promising the Neo won't shorten the lifecycle, Sony have subliminally planted the idea that a shorter life cycle is a bad thing. Now it's more likely that MS will go with 'iterative' to avoid a possible backlash. Sony will be hoping that this will be discussed in the media to help cement the negatives of a shorter lifecycle. I love this shit. I'm already starting to see Sony adjusting their messaging from power to games. They had both before but they know they won't have both come the release of the Scorpio. |
Exactly, and sony hasn't even started yet. The biggest issue with the scorpio is actually its biggest strenght too. Its just too differemt from the OGXB1.
Now typically being more powerful can always be a good thing, but things really start to go bad the second you can plug in a rift or vive into the scorpio and play a gamewhich means the 20M+ people tjat supported the XB1 (probably 30M+ by the time the scorpio is released) are going to be left behind.
Then sony will just say, every PS4 is the same. Eveeything you can do on one you can do on the other. Only difference is that one supports 4k output and the other doesnt. So its simple, neo is PS4 but better.
