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exclusive_console on 19 February 2017
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Snoopy said:
aLkaLiNE said:

That survey is years old though; had resolution been a key factor in console sales, then we would see a sales split closer to what we see in Europe for the US but we don't which implies that resolution is not nearly as important as the Internet makes you believe (considering the Ps4 has had a clear performance advantage for 3 years now). Price and library go much, much farther.

And really? So let's say Scorpio releases this year. Pro released last year. That puts Sony a year ahead on the current cycle. When their next console the Ps5 comes out (~2019) , it will undoubtedly be more powerful than Scorpio. If MS doesn't want to be left behind again then their only option will be to cut Scorpios life short by jumping into the next gen with Sony. So, best case scenario, if Ms wants to keep the console power throne then Scorpio will be relevent for a grand total of 2 years on the market. If they want to recoup more of their R&D into Scorpio, they will have to flesh out its life longer.

There is no more generations with Microsoft. They will release a new console every 2-3 years and they have the money/resource to do that easily since they have the whole surface team behind them, similar to how what they do with tablets.  Price does play a role and that is part of the reason why Microsoft is doing this. You can probably play PS5 games and xbox scorpio 2 games on the regular xbox scorpio. So if you don't care about graphics, you can stick with the regular xbox scorpio.

 

Finally, exclusives don't hold the some weight as they once did on both sides. That is why the best selling games on ps4 and xbox one are always multiplatform games.  And like I've said before, out of the top 30 games sold on PS4, only one of them is exclusive (uncharted 4). Microsoft is leveraging off their big exclusive games still, but they know power, price,online ,friends and third party games matter a lot.

I'll be back tomorrow to debate some more, but I have some errands to complete.

Wait, who says they will release a console every 2-3yrs ??? This is worse idea than upgrading 500$ gpu every 2-3yrs.

Also PS4 success was not only it was faster than Xbone it was also cheaper and they both were released during same month. When they dropped kinect as well I think the price was same as PS4. Slower ddr3 ram and edram played for their downfall as far as hardware goes more than 12CU vs 18CU of PS4.