It's very much a good idea to keep traditional console generations at least on the software side since many portions of the 8th gen crowd are still on the first iterations the hardware ...

I guess backwards compatibility is starting to get more value when your main hardware designer (AMD) is churning out similar CPU and GPU microarchitectures supposing that they don't go under ...

YES :) Actually I was about to post in another thread about that in general but also the fact that those speculations about the Xbox One and the Play Station Four being the last "hardware" console.

I would love for there just to be an Xbox and a Playstation. And they upgrade like 1.0, 2.0 etc. And every few years you have an upgraded console, and it's always backward compatible. And you can maybe skip an upgrade and not miss out too much.

It will matter to you as soon as you are ready to splurge on a new console. Enjoy your complete BC and the ability to buy when you want.

They certainly will. Giving choice to people should be rewarded.

Whatever your wallet allows.

My real question is... with a 6TF console, only upscaling games from the Xbox One/Xbox One S would be such a waste of resources since you're not using its full capabilities. I'm wondering if down the line they'll consider to make Scorpio-only games that will take full advantage of the hardware.

Well if Dead Rising 4 is coming for the PS4, Ill just wait for the Scorpio.

Yes.

They don't need AMD to go down to have troubles.

What if, after Polaris and Vega, AMD decides that it can't improve their GCN architecture and design a new one? It's not that hard to imagine. How will Sony and Microsoft react to that?

To me, these new consoles only prove that consoles are becoming more and more like PCs, and that's not necessarily a good thing.

There will be a PS5. What we are seeing is a slight change in the generational game. From now on, we will probably be getting a half generational leap every 3 years, instead of a whole one every 6 years. You don't honestly think Sony or MS is going to demand games that come out 5-6 years from now to be compatible with the OG PS4 and XBO do you? Not going to happen.

Plus, Sony makes a ton of money off of HW. And they'll be making even more now that they have switched to x86 chips that are mostly off the shelf. By 2019, we'll have a PS5 announced, which will probably be ~9-10 Tflops.

Now all we need is for them to agree on allowing PSN and XBL crossplay.