| thismeintiel said: Nice way to ignore the slighty in my statement to push a false narrative. But, not surprising in the least. I guess you have not been following Scorpio threads, or have selective memory. People have been talking about this thing being a beast. Ryzen CPU AND Vega GPU, with 12GB of RAM, probably DDR4 or HBM. Maybe 6 Tflops is just a lowball. Which, hey, maybe they are right. But, expect this thing to be $549+, which means it can just forget about being more than extremely niche. I don't really how I could have predicted that the 360 would be the last console gen for them, since they did damn good that gen. Though, I do remember saying that the XBO gen could be the last. And they really are making steps toward that being a possibility. Focusing more on Windows, even at E3. Taking all exclusives away from Xbox to help towards that goal. No longer spending the kind of money they used to on advertising deals and 3rd party exclusives. Even Bill Gates has said he would be completely fine with them spinning off Xbox, which would pretty much mean its sale or death. If Scorpio does nothing for the Xbox brand and flounders around after launch, XB2 will become less of a certainty. |
Slightly what? You said you expect upgrades to the CPU, RAM, and GPU. In other words, pretty decked out. No need for a false narrative, it's right there in your own words. If anything, the false narrative would be you talking about what "people think" as if it's a large group or even the majority because maybe a couple people might have maybe said something in this one supposed thread or another. I do follow Scorpio threads.. expectations seem very tapered, and rightfully so as we have no concrete info. Of course there might be a small handful who are predicting God in a box, but those type of people exist for all platforms.
Who said anything about the 360? You have said many times you don't think there would be another Xbox console if the Xbone got outsold badly. It's getting outsold badly, and yet Microsoft is not only about to launch another console, it's the most powerful console ever. Bill Gates said he'd support MS's decision to sell off Xbox if Nadella decided to, answering questions and just showing support for Nadella, nothing more. Either way, that doesn't have anything to do with you constantly predicting the end of Xbox :)
Adding development costs and R&D and marketing costs by adding Windows versions to all their Xbone games, not to mention unifying Xbox with Windows in a bigger fashion than ever before also seems like the last thing a company would do if they were expecting to spin or sell off the division. And we've never had any idea what these companies spend on marketing deals, but MS has snagged plenty this gen. The PS4 is the market leader, it makes sense companies would want to partner with Sony for a marketing deal. That doesn't really speak to how much MS is willing to spend. For all we know it would be costing them more this gen to snag the deals they have gotten given the sales breakdown versus last gen when they dominated the PS3 in the US. We don't know.
