| Mr Puggsly said: I know a lot of people (primarily Sony fans) are saying games matter more. I get it, now that MS will have the more powerful machine nobody should boast about specs. But lets admit we want powerful consoles balanced with an affordable price. More users on this forum would care about the PS4 Pro if it had the Scorpio's specs. Hopefully Scorpio will only be $399. While power isn't everything, my interest in Scorpio has gone up given its power. I mean it runs Forza 6 at 4K/60 fps while only using like 60% of the GPU? This machine is a beast. |
While there have been plenty of people on both sides whose positions have shifted (the "games matter more" argument was originally an MS one :p), the two situations aren't completely comparable. The PS4's advantage was more significant than it'd normally be because it was effectively free (relative to the X1). As you say, people like power at an affordable price, and the PS4 effectively said "here you go, more power and i won't even charge you for it". In every recent generation, the most powerful of the major consoles has also been the most expensive. The PS4 got incredibly lucky and managed to eat all its cake, and that was worth a lot.
For the Scorpio's gap, which is larger but comparable to the PS4 and X1's, that advantage comes at the cost of a years wait and a likley significantly higher price ($500 in DF's opinion, though i personally think $450). For many you also have to care enough to replace an existing version of that console. It's fantastic for any power conscious gamers who aren't already gaming on high-spec PCs (i really wish Sony had followed a similar strategy), but i can understand why it's seen as less relevant. Hell, i'd say the gap between the standard PS4 and X1 is more significant than the gap between the PS4 and Pro. The latter is orders of magnitudes larger, but it's bogged down by other variables. That makes it less relevant for most.
