What would make you buy a Scorpio at launch?

[tripenfall]

Pemalite said:

tripenfall said:
The Scorpio specs look brilliant - a real generational leap but if the software doesn't improve and the price is over $499 US they will have a big flop on their hands.
IMO Microsoft would have been better waiting until 2018/2019, admitting the XBox One is dead and deliver a whole new system....

I wouldn't call it a real generational leap over an Xbox One/Playstation 4...

But it is the kind of performance I would have preffered this console generation to start at.

6 teraflops vs 1.23 teraflops for the base XBone is a 487% upgrade to the GPU. That's a generational leap IMO. Admittedly the CPU improvement is far more modest but the difference is massive. Remember the jump from the XBox 360 to the XBone represented a 512% increase in GPU power (.24 tflops vs 1.23 tflops) so the difference is nearly the same and the 360's lifespan was looooooooong and the hardware was grossly obsolete by the time XBone was released.