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Frogger on 14 June 2017
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Neodegenerate said:
spemanig said:

See, but now you're overanylizing. Obviously every console is competing with each other. Even the 3DS is competing with the XBOX. That's not what he's talking about here.

And he didn't say it had no competition. He said PS4 Pro was more of a competitor to the XBOS then to the XBOX. He's literally just talking about hardware tiers here. Again, people are working way to hard to demonize a harmless comment.

Then I would say that he is being remarkably short-sighted for a guy in charge of a division for a huge company like Microsoft.  The consumers will look at it as PS4 Slim vs XB1S and PS4Pro vs XB1X.  Price points will drive this.  He can have his view all he wants, and he can try to spin it all he wants.  Fact is when a mainstream consumer is looking at the 4 offerings that is how they are gonna pair them and decide on which to buy.  That makes the Pro the X competition, not the S.

He's not spinning anything. XBOS came out last year, was more powerful, could upscale to 4K, could do HDR, etc. This is at around the same time the Pro launched.

XBOX comes out a year later, isolated from everything else, with a completely different price point and message. And again, he's not saying there's no competition. He's saying Pro is more of a XBOS competitor than an XBOX competitor. The Pro is a more mainstream device upgrade while the XBOX is clearly a niche enthusiast piece of hardware.