S.T.A.G.E. said:
Microsoft is making the Scorpio because Sony is doing it. Its as simple as that. As soon as they heard about Neo, they announced the Scorpio at E3 because they were embarassed about having a weaker platform to Sony. They were so embarassed, they literally raced to raise the clock speed of the XBox One before launch. Thats primarily what this is about. As time goes on they will find other good reasons, but the timing is right for this sort of thing now because of middle generation iterations before the next generation in cellphones. |
This really does not pan out since the document from MS that was leaked before the X1 launch showed a mid system device. You seem to think that every move from MS is a response to Sony but there are a lot of things MS does based on their own gameplan from 5 years or better. If anything, the Scorpio is a console to stablize the ecosystem of the Xbox family. Its a teired system with a low end and a high end. MS probably first want to get back as much as possible all the 360 gen users who love their games, products and services to move back to their console, then they want to continue to establish a base line and high end line to cover all user base.
