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LivingMetal on 12 September 2016
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thismeintiel said:
whatever said:
MS shows they have not learned anything from the XB1 release. I guess they've convinced themselves that the PS4 outsold the XB1 because it was more powerful. Where it was their terrible reveal and the $100 price difference that was the real issue.

If Scorpio comes in at $499, and the PSPro is, by then, $299, the power difference will be irrelevant.

I fully expect the Scorpio to come in at $499, at best $449, but the Pro won't be $299.  I think Sony will cut the Slim to $249 and the Pro to $349.  Still that'll be a $100 price difference at best, but more likely will end up being $150 difference.  The power difference isn't going to mean much when you count the price difference PLUS the fact that Xbox no longer has exclusives, the reason to get a Scorpio diminishes quite a bit. 

MS made a mistake launching the Scorpio so late in the gen.  I know they want to go "generationless," but that doesn't mean anything when Sony and Nintendo aren't going that way AND the PS5 will most likely be out in 2019, and we'll be hearing rumors about it not too much longer after the Scorpio launches (maybe even leaked by Sony themselves.)  A system that will blast the Scorpio out of the water with 10+ Tflops, 12 GB of RAM, and a much better CPU.  MS will be playing catch up, again.  I doubt they want to or will be ready to announce a console a mere 1-1 1/2 years after the Scorpio launch.

Microsoft knows that if they were to release a next gen console this soon, it would almost all but negate their efforts with the Xbox One and leave developers unprepare for a new console generation.  And they have pretty much been loosing ground to the PS4 as we all know.  Almost every tactic they've used up until recently have hardly helped to successfully compete with the PS4.  In comes the "non-generational" console in an attempt to offer more  to stay revelant competing with the PS4.  But that's another year from now. Who know what will happen by then.  There's nothing substancial we can count on to really compare to.