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RJ_Sizzle on 05 January 2017
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Dark_Feanor said:
RJ_Sizzle said:

I don't know. There's a reason they've been hiding some of the figures they have when they were more transparent last gen and gone stright to figures like MAUs and Zombies killed. And to be honest, going from $299 to $199 in six months isn't really that less drastic than going from $499 to $199 in three years when you look at things parallel. There's a reason that MS is hyping the Scorpio early. It's in line with the MS business strategy of kicking starting a new gen in 4 years when something isn't working out like it should. Scorpio seems less like an iterative console and more like a do over of what happened this gen.

I think the Scorpio will be a success, but I think people should be prepared for them to break away from the prior console to do it. We'll see if "no gamer left behind" holds up if Scorpio takes off.

Well, that is a lot of opinions and no facts. 

You arbitraly draw a line that the Scorpio is another generation, and we should be prepared to leave games behind.

The Scorpio will share the same Cpu, the same OS, the same API and may be the same dev kits.

If MS is willing to announce the Scorpio as early as they are to get people to buy it, at the cost of risking sales to the current platform, you KNOW they want you to buy this thing. They also want to create an uncertainly to prevent people from buying the rival console as well. Why would anything in the Scorpio use anything different regardless of gen since it's a Windows platform device? I'm just saying, there might come a point where MS would encourage a breakaway for devs to to take full advantage of the hardware as opposed to continually releasing versions of games with high and low sliders.

It's quite a leap over PS4 Pro on paper, so I think they'd make moves to push people toward that box eventually since it's poised to take off based on power advantage alone.