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Intrinsic on 10 April 2017
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Mr Puggsly said:

1. You're speculating, we'll have to wait and see. I anticipate Scorpio will be able to handle PS5 and Next X1 content at a lower quality.

2. The X1 achieve 1080p more often than PS4 Pro does 4K. People say X1 is under powered because it doesn't do 1080p often enough, I feel PS4 is underpowered as a 4K device.

3. Nice spin, PS4 Pro a premium console. It plays the same content as a regular PS4 just better and its more expensive. This is a definition of premium, "relating to or denoting a commodity or product of superior quality and therefore a higher price."

You're speculating on prices there. If the Scorpio is going to be $499, then Sony won't be pressured into a price cut. Don't expect $199 consoles yet either.

  1. obviously there is a lot of speculation in what we both are saying. But I am saying what I am saying based on the technology out there now and th trends in technology for the last 20yrs. Scorpio should be able to handle PS5/XB2 content at 1080p or 1440p. As would he PS4 base be able to handle it at even 720p..... but thats only if we are looking at the GPU. 

    Mark Cerny said it himself. The only real indication of a generational shift is when there is generational jump in the CPU. A gams systems are built around its CPU not the GPU.

  2. The PS4pro is NOT a 4k console. Its not designed to run games natively at 4k. Its why at its introduction so much time was spent talking about reconstruction and multiple psuedo techniques. Sony made their position clear, if you or other gamers chose to call it something that its not thats left you.

    So I do not understand how something can be underpowered as a 4k device when its not a 4k device to begin with. Not once did sony make a claim that all games will be runing in native 4k. This is all even more ridiculous when you consider that son'y own customizations to the PS4pro APU is specificaly to allow for hardware based checkerboard rendering. What does that tell you?

  3. Its not spin really.... but ok; premium doesn't always mean what you just said it does. just look at any apple product. But I'll give you that anyways. its still cheaper though... and as such what is expected of it should fall in line. Here is the question then, what is the current cost of native 4k gaming in consoles?
  4.  With regard to the prices? again... we are both speculating here. But look:better drive, more and higher grade ram, more complex APU, more expensive cooling solution; those are all things that the scorpio has over the PS4pro. Those are all things that will make the scorpio cost more than a PS4pro.

    as for the $199 price point... you do realize that right now you can get a PS4 for as little as $250 brand new right? And you really feel that it would be that same price in november/december this year? Even last year when it just dropped in price to $299 in september by november/december you could get them for as little as $220. And twice already this year the PS4 has been sold for $199. 

    Make no mistake, we will have $199 consoles for sale around november/december this year.