| setsunatenshi said: I was going to bet on a late 2018 date, but looking at how AMD revised Navi for 2019 on their roadmap I'm now more convinced we could really be talking late 2019... 2020 would be way too late to let the Scorpio on the wild imho |
I think people are attaching too much relevance to the scorpio and not really looking at the big picture.
As is, outside great deals at the end of the year the PS4 is handily dominating the XB1. The scorpio adds a problem for MS too, it doesn't just say this is the best and most powerful console to buy it also says that if you are going to buy an XB1 this is the only version of it with getting. Because if you don't want to spend as much for the scorpio then you could as well buy any other PS4. Be it a cheaper PS4pro or an even cheaper PS4s. Which are both better options than the XB1s.
The problem with that is that the scorpio will also be the most expensive console on the market, while sharing 100% of its library with cheaper alternatives. Meaning its ONLY differentiating factor will be higher resolutions, higher framerates and better image IQ. All of which would be even harder to dicern when compared against the PS4pro. And don't forget, all its software is designed to run primarily on 2013 hardware.
If anything, the scorpio coming in 2017, pretty much means MS will not release another console before 2019. Not a chance, that gives sony leeway to take their time with the PS5 and release no sooner than 2020.
People seem to thik that the scorpio (a $400+) console, will suddenly set the world alight and sell gangbusters. No. it won't, that kinda shit only is relevant on forums. If the PS4pro sells an average of 300k consoles per month, the scorpio would at BEST (and this is assuming is more successful than the cheaper PS4pro) sell around 400-500k/month. Thats nothing when you consider that in turn the PS4s would go onto sell around 1M/month and the XB1s would manage probably less than half that every month. In the grand scheme of things, it just doesn't matter. Its on MS to make everyone think it does though.
