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thismeintiel on 04 January 2017
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hudsoniscool said:
thismeintiel said:
Probably. Will it matter as far as sales go? Nope. Not only is the Pro going to be getting a price cut, so will have an advantage there, but it is obvious that the OG PS4 and XBO are still going to be outselling their upgrades. Maybe when the Pro and Scorpio drop to $249 that will change, but that won't happen any time soon. In addition, the Scorpio no longer has any exclusives to help push the system, as they can all be played on the PC.

And probably more importantly, we are going to be getting rumors about the PS5 in mid-2018 at the latest. Personally, I see us getting them late this year. Maybe controlled leaks from Sony. Rumblings of a new gen, with a 9-10 Tflops PS5, with a much better CPU and that will most likely be B/C, is definitely going to impact sales of these upgrades. Scorpio is just arriving too late to the party to really change anything.

Being a Xbox fan not wanting the ps5 to dramatically overpower Scorpio I would be very happy with PS5 being 9-10 teraflops in late 2019. Then Scorpio 2 should come out a year after that. And at that point I don't see the need  for more consoles. They will be so powerful that going from 10 teraflops to 20 would show very little improvement I think.

Let's wait to actually see Scorpio's sales before we start talking about Scorpio 2.  If the Scorpio sells poorly, I think MS is going to either drop out of the console biz, or abandon their generationless talk and come out with a XB2 in 2019-2020.

And there will always be a need for more powerful HW.  I know some wish to see it end because their console of choice isn't doing so hot, but it will continue to go on until the top console drops below 20M-25M.  There will always be room to improve when graphics are being talked about.