If XBX fails, what next?

[Mr Puggsly]

Shadow1980 said:

Mr Puggsly said:

The leaps in specs are slowing down in the console arena. The 8th gen consoles were a big upgrade but that was after about 8 years and no mid gen upgrade. Again, keep your expectations low for 9th gen specs if the X1X is sold at a loss at $499.

Still doesn't change the fact that these mid-gen upgrades are a very small upgrade overall compared to the jump from the 360/PS3 to base PS4/XBO. They're mostly a GPU bump for better resolutions and/or framerates.

The handheld console market is just different and I will continue to ignore it. Its mostly been cheap junk spec wise, while Switch is somewhat cutting edge compared to 240p 3DS.

Special pleading.

You can't necessarily look to history when things are changing and consoles are basically PCs now.

More special pleading.

Even the 7th gen was historically unusal given how long it was, sales were strong throughout the gen,

Sales started off slower and took longer to reach peak sales. Higher launch prices combined with longer gaps in price cuts and proportionally smaller price cuts compared to historical norms is the reason why.

and they're still active platforms. Many 7th gen games still have people playing online.

Relevance? And in any case, people were still playing Halo 2 on the OXbox until MS shut down XBL support for the system. People were still buying and playing PS2 games well after the 360 & PS3 launched. People still play vintage consoles to this day. Not only was your comment irrelevant, it doesn't tell us anything we already knew. People still play older games on older systems. Who'd have thunk it?

The X1X is a much more significant upgrade over the Pro. The GPU is getting the most attention, but here is also much more RAM for games, and a custom CPU that should be more efficient. That will go a long way if the plan is to keep X1X around in the 9th gen.

50% more RAM and 43% more GPU flops than the Pro is not proportionally significant. You're overstating the power of the X1X.

The X1X's GPU may actually be comparable to the last gen leap. RAM and CPU are not.

Good, any claims of pleading I can ignore.

Yep, 7th gen broke some historical trends and remained relevant longer. Its almost like things are changing.

If developers want to put 9th gen content on X1X, that extra power youre downplaying will be useful. Its funny how much youre understating. Anyhow, you seem to be a bored contrarian, I'm done talking.