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teigaga on 31 August 2016
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CGI-Quality said:
Shadow1980 said:

Yup. Totally without precedent. Well, except for...


Among other possible candidates, especially if you include hardware expansions and add-ons.

The Neo and Scorpio are not something that's never seen before in the industry. Also, they're not going to be part of a new normal, I don't care what some people's crystal balls are telling them. Odds are, they're going to be one-off things, likely brought about by VR and 4K, things that the the base-model PS4 & XBO (which were not as big of a jump in power as previous generations). Console cycles exist for very good reasons, and attempting to disrupt that could have hugely negative effects on the industry. There's no point in radical shifts in the status quo when the status quo is still healthy. Don't fix what isn't broken.

Very glad to have read this. People need to be reminded that history is repeating itself. There's not some "revolutionary thing" happening here. 

So, well said!

I don't think any of those are really comparable, specifically not to the Scorpio. Looking at history we can't ignore that the transition to PS4/X1 saw 2 years worth of cross platform games, that in itself is a new normal. How many GBA games were released alongside a GB Color version. How many PS2 games were released alongside a PS3 version, day and date? The industry has fundementally changed going forward and cross generational games became the norm. In the case of the Scorpio, the 4x difference in power is far more dramatic a change then any of the incremimental hardware updates Shadow1980  referenced. Practically speaking how much more powerful is the X2 going to have to justify excluiding Scorpio hardware support? Prior generations have typically been seperated by a factor of 8x or more.Even if we cut that in half, I don't see Microsoft bring out a 24TFLOP system at the turn of the decade at a $399 price point.