| Mr Puggsly said: It seems all this talk about about Scorpio has people wondering about PS5. I mean I never heard so much talk about PS5 until Scorpio specs were made official. I think Sony is going to try to hit the sweet spot of $399 again, it clearly works for them. If so though, can it be signfiicantly more powerful than Scorpio? The general concensus is Scorpio can't be $399, it just too much power in a box to acheive that price. The best you can apparently do at that price is PS4 Pro. So if the PS5 is about 3 years away... what could it possibly offer at that price? Can it be a device that makes the Scorpio look like a dated piece of crap?!?! Any chance it will have games too demanding for the Scorpio to handle? I'm doubting it. |
They still have 2 or 3 years before the PS5/X2, so they will manage to outmuscle both Pro and Scorpio significantly. Scorpio and Pro are also partially held back by the base models, games are designed to work in the weaker units. The beefier consoles will get what PC gets: basically some extra graphical settings and more resolution/fps. If we look at PC games during the last and the current gen, they had a jump in graphical quality after PS4 and X1, simply because the games were now being made for newer consoles.
Games are develped for the platform where they sell more. Base PS4 and X1 far outnumber people on high-end hardware (Scorpio, Pro, PC), so games are developed for them. People usually say that weaker platforms are "helding back" development, but they usually forget that if they weren't here to guarantee the bulk of sales, games wouldn't be developed at all.
