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teigaga on 30 August 2016
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thismeintiel said:
Darc Requiem said:

A lack of generations prevents a clean break from the previous iteration of hardware. The strength of consoles had always been a unified platform that developers could maximize. In addition, it made it clear to consumers when software was compatible with a platform.

I don't see this change as a good thing. New hardware is going to be limited by software being required to run on older hardware. Which defeats the purpose of having improved hardware. Consoles are becoming too much like PCs and forgetting what made the console model a success.

This is just MS talking out their butt, really. Trying to make waves for "changing how we see consoles." But, Sony is the one who decides how the next gen starts, not MS. And trust me, if MS decides to stick around another gen, you can bet they'll release a XB2, and they sure as hell aren't going to demand devs to continue to support the Scorpio if they don't want to.

The max I see Sony doing that is different from their usual strategy is maybe having the PS5 also support the DS4.

There is an aweful lot of wishful thinking going on amongst people. Many of the current nay sayers were the same who doubted the Neo would exist at all. If Microsoft is producing an entirely new system (New GPU/New CPU), best believe that it is the next iteration of the Xbox brand. They're not producing a bleeding edge 6TFLOP system only then drop support for it 4years down the line when they release the "X2" which won't be much more powerful (12TFLOP). Scorpio will definitely phase out the Xbox One down the road and for a handful of years will be forward compatible with whatever follows it up, just as Xbox One will be forward compatible with Scorpio til decades end.