2016 Will Be Remembered as a "Tipping Point" for Xbox One

[DonFerrari]

Mummelmann said:

I've been saying for a few years that I think Xbox One might "win" NA, been doubting it this year but since fall and until now, it's looking like a real possibility, especially with Scorpio still looming on the horizon and PS4 Slim and Pro not setting the world afire quite as much as many seemed to believe they would.

As for global; just no. Xbox is irrelvant in all of Asia and pretty niche in most of EU, besides the UK. Too many big markets that ignore it.

Win in which aspect? PS4 is still selling more than X1... and considering that Pro haven't been sold a lot it's quite clear people are choosing price over specs which have always been in vg history, so I really don't see Scorpio doing much better being the most expensive of the 4.

Madword said:
I'm not convinced that Scorpio will do it, unless they focus on 1080p and frame rates/graphical fidelity. I think Sony did mess up by not really having a solid plan what the Pro was for, they are obviously aiming for 4K gaming, but really should have made sure that 1080p users were rewarded (I don't have a 4k TV and will unlikely until 2018-2019). I think that'll be the case in 2017, and if they do, then I think the differences between Pro and Scorpio will be minimal and the cost difference considerable.

PS4Pro already offer you a lot of improvements as a 1080p screen owner... but if you are talking about fps, then Scorpio won't probably bring much to you since most expect the same CPU architeture of X1 and we saw that PS4Pro even after going from 1.6 to 2.1 or 2.3Ghz (the limit of the CPU as far as we know) didn't improve much the fps performance.

KBG29 said:

Ka-pi96 said:

It won`t even be close. Windows computers, laptops and tablets will always be more important than home consoles since they can be used for work as well as personal purposes. No company is ever going to start buying Xboxes for their employees to work on.

I have faith that one day these companies and general consumers are going to wake up and stop getting robbed. I work for a very big US company, and they just spent $1000's on PC's that have half the RAM, Half the CPU, and about 1/4 the GPU power of the XBO. These brand new PC's have too little RAM and too little GPU to propperly run the graphics intense software that is vital to our daily operation. They spent over $800 on each unit, and are still running extreamly inefficient. They could have made a deal with Microsoft to run their programs on Xbox One, and bought a fleet of identical devices for everyone in the company, and still spent less in the end.

In addition they would not be having the problems they are having right now with different business units having different PC's which is causing even more problems getting everyone reliable and consistent access to the programs. Instead of wasting time trying to fix the programs to run on multiple and underpowered expensive PC's, they could be streamlining the programs to be more efficient, and driving up productivity and innovation within the company.

You probably work for the company with the worse IT people and lousy controller I ever heard.