Edit : nvm

Better close this thread, even if it's the article title, this is not the reality.

It's more like every 4 years, you can't really compare this to the phone market. Both Sony and Microsoft at the time knew that they wanted their consoles to achieve 4k but in reality both consoles more so for Xbox one would later prove even 1080p was going to be hard to achieve. Sony have yet to announce final specs and a release date, we will see how they responds to Microsoft soon enough. Regardless, this mid-gen upgrade is to welcome 4K gaming to console. 

Don't be so harsh, MS doesn't tell lies, just 50 shades of truth!   

I guess you still didn't figure out that the article in the op was posted to spark discussion and rather you turn on me. Anyway, here:

1- They didn't give up on their handhelds like some did after a year on one and two years on the next. There is still a space for Windows Phone and that's the reason MS didn't drop it and GO™.

2- MS invested on Kinect early on like they believe in what they say but consumers voted with their wallet. What do you want them to do?

3- Again if the customers don't want something doesn't matter what it is and the cloud gives Xbox One the power of 2000 PCs, get your math right.

Right, but what happens when a console has NO exclusives? Well, I can either get a PC and a PS4 to get roughly 90% of the games released within 8th Gen, or I can get a PC and an XB1 and have a fairly redundant library. It's an even more extreme scenerio of PS3 vs XB360; most of their libraries were shared to the point that unless you just HAD to have Halo and God of War it was almost a bad decision to buy both.

The only way I can see the crossbuy thing working out in the end is if you have an XB1 and a Gaming Laptop, allowing you to take your games on the go. And even then: why not just get a laptop $300 more powerful instead?

A $300 laptop to play Gears? Gears Gauntlet?

Bolded because you're picking and choosing words and because I may have worded it vaguely. The scenerio is you can get a gaming laptop and an Xbox One, or spend that $300 you spent on an XB1 to get more out of your laptop.

Well your punctuation wasn't the best. So there is where the confusion was.

So MS just announces new powerful hardware for 18 months time and you are so sure that it won't be an Xbox branded machine and that they just suddenly decide to abandon a well known brand and start from scratch. Sorry but you must be dreaming things up in this instance. These like minded predictions have been going on for years (MS abandoning Xbox etc..). And you guys just get proven wrong every year. I do get though that some people are upset with this announcement. Hey they can easily jump on boad and get this truly powerful upgrade as well. I know ill be getting the Scorpio 😃. You can too!

My guess is that Sony will release the APU-only Neo without changes this year and come up with a GPU-enhanced Neo 2 in 2017. They need to, because Scorpio will blow the PS4 Neo away.