GribbleGrunger said:
To be honest, I think that's what Sony wants. Now we've got the Slim and the Pro in the picture I'm looking at the MS situation slightly differently. I often complained about how MS were devaluing the console business and I think Sony were on it with these two new SKUs. I think Sony left the 4K blu-ray out and cut down on other things because they knew MS were going to go this route towards Christmas. Sony know there is a lot of pressure on the XB1 division to turn a profit (eventually) and they're putting pressure on MS with these prices. They're 'squeezing' them out of this gen. The downside is MS might label Scorpio as a new generation to create a false lead come lauch. |
At this point, I'm almost certain that is exactly what MS will do. I do however feel they also can't do it because the basic premise of their game anywhere initiative is that no Xbox gets left behind. So every game playable on the scorpio will also be playable on the XB1 which means there will no doubt be a PS4 version.
Sony also buiding as big a lead they have built so far means that by the time the scorpio is released there would be at least 70M PS4s out there. There isn't a dev on the planet that would forgo an install base that large and build exclusively for the scorpio. As long as the scorpio doesmt there a number of exclusive games it can't brand itself as a gen 9 platform. It will still be competing with the PS4.
MS hasn't done poorly this gen, the PS4 is just doing a lot better. If MS were smart. they would be positioning themselves to better compete wirh the PS5 by investing in lots of new IPs instead of doubling down on a power war. But it seems the PS2/XB era didn't teach them anything.
