Spencer: Scorpio Isn’t Trying To Compete with High-End Rigs, It’ll Have Console Price Point

[EricHiggin]

celador said:

EricHiggin said:

Balanced implies next gen all around. 8 Core Zen, 12GB GDDR5(x), 6TFlop Vega, $499.

If this is what Scorpio ends up being hardware wise, odds are very good we hear leaks about PS5 late 2017, and legit news early 2018, with a launch fall 2018.

No way PS5 is fall 2018. That's around the time games like Last of Us 2 and Death Stranding will come out. 

Sony doesn't need to rush PS5 just because Scorpio will have a power advantage over it, PS4 will continue to sell great (much more than X1) and have a large install base regardless.

PS5 is fall 2019 at the earliest

That's like saying PS2 was selling like hot cakes (the highest selling console in history by far) so PS didn't need to make an over the top $1000 console and sell it for $599, one year after the 360 launched. If PS3 waited to launch a year later than it did, things would have been even worse for PS. PS4 has a lot of momentum yes, but that momentum is based on its direct competition which is the XB1, not Scorpio.

PS5 launch, The Last Of Us Part II. Sounds like a sure fire way to sell a boat load of new consoles to me.