I believe Spencer want to make sure of is that people who purchase the Scorpio do not get it in their head they will see significant improvement to those older games.  If the Scorpio is 500 bones while the X1 S is 300 to 250, people might not see a dramitic enough difference to justify the price difference unless they are on a 4K TV where HDR, image resolution and higher frames let the system shine.

A game that is running at 900P now probably would not see no image enhancement and if its funning at 30fps really see no real improvement enough to justify the price for the new console.  Developers do have the option to patch the game but lets be honest, most will not.  Even when the scorpio comes out there is no real reason for developers to do anything more than build for the base level Xbox and probably just have a dynamic res so that the Scorpio can run the game t 1080P/60 all the time which is nice but definitely not that great dependong on scorpio cost.

So the Scorpio was barely announced, releases in +12 months, and you guys not only know its specs, but also the resolution of all of its games? Impressive...

Apparently half of the gaming community has a crystal ball that can predict the future.  

Just considering what it could do based on all that power under the hood, but at times it is getting compared to what that amount of teraflops in a PC GPU would do, which I think wont be the exact same quality when it comes to the X1, Games can be optimized so much more for a closed system like the X1 than on the PC, there wont(shouldn't) be games going onto that system which wont know what hardware they need to interact perfectly with.

Still though, it's fun to imagine what we'll be playing in 2 years :)

and the other half apparently only live in this second and can never anticipate what might come based on past events, May fly gamers must be the new trend!

I'm not sure though, would games need to be patched, if you take the graphics card out of your PC and slot in another better card you don't actually have to go through each and every game you own and say, hey.... you know... there is a new card here so imma need you to not stutter to a single digit of fps when that pile of rocks explodes into a billion particles, games just use the power as it comes, sure you need to change the graphics cards driver, but still you don't need to alter the games to run on the new hardware.

Sure you would need to change settings to alter things like 720/900p up to 1080p since that won't just auto change in games, but still any framerate issues with older X1 titles should be completely eliminated on the new machine.

No, I don't see a contradiction going off of what you've quoted.

I do see what looks like a contradiction in your post: your

implies that the first quote was made before the latter quote but then you state

It's called the wait and see approach. Past events don't predict what might happen, and over half the time, things turn out very different than what people imagined. I.E the last 2 generation of consoles. And yet people continue to act like they know what's going to unfold. 

No, because one statement was about how you don't see the benefit of 4k on a TV not 4k and the other statement was about other possible visual enhancement which you don't need a 4k TV for. 

He said:

"Scorpio is designed as a 4K console, and if you don’t have a 4K TV, the benefit we’ve designed for"

So, he says Scorpio was designed for the benefit of 4k and you obviously don't see 4k if you don't have a 4k TV. But just because Scorpio was desigend for this benefit doesn't mean that devs can't use Scorpio for other stuff. That is just not the main reason why Scorpio was designed and with that, without a 4k TV you won't see the benefit for what the console was designed for which is 4k. 

Pretty logical and as someone who hasn't English as native language I have no idea where people have a problem to differentiate between these statements. 

I have no idea what devs will really do for people who have no 4k screen but that the Scorpio won't bring you 4k to your 1080p screen even if the Scorpio was designed for 4k is nothing surprising...

Why did you write this as if the second quote was made after the first? To be confusing? 

In order this is a complete non story.  Sounds like MS directly responding to a question and clarifying that they are not FORCING devs to release at 4k.  What MS wants and what they are mandating are 2 different things it appears.