So the Scorpio....

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Guitarguy said:

From a recent interview with Aaron Greenberg, he stated that the Xbox Scorpio will be a very high end product and that it is targetting 4k gaming. But here there are several elements here that confuse me:

1) The Xbox Scorpio will supposedly have no non-VR exclusive games which will either force much more work on the developers or severely gimp the Scorpio version of the game. Games that run on Scorpio have to run on OG Xbox One(unless I'm mistaken). This will diminish the graphical fidelity of the Scorpio variant games.

2) Even the best current PC GPU cannot handle all 4k games at 60 frames per second and that card alone is worth more than the PS3 was when it first came out(which has other components inside which further inflates the cost of the console)

3) With MS putting alot of their exclusive titles on PC and implementing Xbox Play Anywhere, there is less incentive for PC gamers to get a Scorpio and consumers will have another option to play Xbox games in 4k via PC.

4) Given the cost of the console will probably be close to $1000US, how can it possibly succeed when the PS3 at $599US was simply too much for consumers? That was also considered premium at the time(blu ray drive, 4 USB ports, native PS2 backwards compatibility etc)?

Does anyone else think this all doesn't add up? Am I wrong in my skepticism?

1) There is no problem in having 2 versions of the same game. The better version will not be bogged down by low fidelity one. That's how graphic sliders work.

2) You will see some 4k games on 30fps, Developers don't feel obligated to release 1080p games in 60fps so they won't feel obligated to do this for games in 4k. You will however see a lot of games that run 1080p60 which would otherwise only run at 30fps on the weaker console.

3)Scorpio targets people who already own an X1 or always wanted to have one but haven't bought it yet, no one else and least PC players.

4) you won't see the Scorpio being more expensive than 699. Which doesn't matter though since it wouldn't see much more success even if it was sold for half of that.

You ask me why I think the scorpio will be a flop? See point 3.