| Ljink96 said: Scorpio was shown prematurely and unnecessarily. All we got from it was 6 Terraflops. They jumped the gun with Scorpio. They should have just let the One S take the spotlight for the rest of the year. |
Completely agree. I mean, I understand why they did it, since Neo is supposed to come out this year. They didn't want the Neo to launch with no challenger, they basically wanted to jump around and be like, "Hey, guys, don't forget about us, we have an upgraded console (coming next year), too." That and maybe say 6 Tflops, so if Sony announces a 5.5 Tflops Neo, MS can boast about having the more powerful console. Granted it won't have any actual exclusives like the PS4 family, but it's something.
However, announcing this early, not only takes some of the wind out of the Slim's sails, but just makes the wait for the console seem overly long. And if Amazon is anything to go by, there was an instant boost to XBO sales, but after that the Slim started fading. It's only #58 in the hourly bestsellers and #62 in the monthly, currently. And for only $50 more than the OG PS4, but comes with a 2TB HDD, UHD Blu-ray player, and supposedly can upscale games to 4K, it's really a steal. I don't think the Scorpio or no exclusives thing is helping the Slim.
| KLAMarine said: "that you actually demonstrate what a device like Neo is capable of" Isn't it just a more powerful PS4? |
Yes, but they want to actually have a few games supporting Neo mode to show off when they announce it. I'm kinda wondering if the supposed Red Dead 3 that was pulled from E3 was to show off this mode, but it wasn't ready, yet.
