Xbox One Will Last 10 Years - Retrospective

[CosmicSex]

RolStoppable said:

CosmicSex said:

Yes, I have to agree with you there.  I think it was the competition with Sony and basically getting buried that made Microsoft want a reset.  If they could have got by with the Xbox One for 10 years there is no reason to think that they wouldn't.   For the reasons you stated I think it is safe to say that Scorpio is a 9th gen consoles. 

It's wishy-washy. It's more of a 9th gen console that doesn't want to be one. Microsoft doesn't want to start from 0 again, so it's not a true reset. But they obviously expect to reset the mindshare and as a result to see momentum shift in their favor.

The conventional concept of generations doesn't work for something like the Scorpio because it avoids the reset of the installed base to 0. But it's undeniably a reaction to Xbox One sales that trail far behind Microsoft's expectations. For the consumer, this altered concept of generations means shorter intervalls of owning the latest and greatest of console hardware from a specific manufacturer. Sony is moving in the same direction and both companies have already said that Scorpio/Neo versions of games could have notable improvements on a regular basis, i.e. the majority of future game releases.

In a way, it resembles the PC graphics card market where new hardware comes more frequently but compatibilty is (allegedly) still there