Bandor, please don't jump into our conversation. Aqua man and I are like brothers, but closer.

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1. Well then, it should be easy to explain your logic. Unless you don't have a line of reasoning to back up your claim and are just going on what you want to believe.

2. Will do.

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4. It doesn't. You said so yourself.

"Im not a big rez guy. I just prefer xbox because the controller, xbl and their exclusive games appeal to me more."

You already believe the Xbox One to have the best AAA exclusives, best controller, and best online service. So the difference is just power, and VR. Both bring with them significant cost.

Maybe not me, for a lot of people it does matter. Im somewhat intrested in VR but won't be purchasing one right away until I test it out some more.

Power does not matter that much, unless people are unable to play a game because of that. It was just a excuse  to give a reason for why the PS4 is selling so much,  it seems that having much more games and a much bigger installbase worldwide isn't enought reason for some peoples.

With PSNow on PC and Xbox One selling all their games for the PC, I think that the PC will be the better long term investment, atleast you will be able to play games from this gen(Microsoft) and last gen(Sony). I dislike the idea of Upgradable consoles.

The max effect that the Neo or Scorpio will have(while being just "upgraded versions of ps4 and Xone") is to make sales up on launch and will prevent a early decline in sales. It will not have the same impact as a new console, will be just the same console, but with more power.

1) Current PC games are made to run on a GTX660 or in machines with SLIs of 1080s. It's a way bigger gap.

2) More like 4K @ 30 fps. It can also run on resolutions like 1600p and upscale it and it would look good.

3) Getting a 4K PC isn't exactly easy. It normally demands SLI and that isn't noob-friendly. And MS ports of their games are definitely subpar. The market also showed pretty clearly that people prefer to play on consoles instead of PC because they lack technical knowledge, so we have a segment of people who don't know how to assemble a PC but want to play on 4K. A lot of guys just play CoD, BF or Fifa and still buy consoles, even if those games are on PC. The sales numbers also tell a similar story. Also, current PC experience on a controller + a big 4K TV is subpar. A lot of situations demand that you grab a mouse + KB and if you play online games, people will have M+KB so you're screwed.

4) It will be probably 600 dollars. Maybe less if they want to take a loss. I don't know from where you got that 1000 bucks number. PS3 failed because you could get a X360 for half the price and the graphics were the same. Scorpio is a second high-end options so, unlike the PS3, it is giving something that is worth the price. However, don't expect that Scorpio and Neo will sell any number close to their respective slim models. They are a niche, high-end option.

Only gamers brag about userbase. What matters to companies is how many units and the profit they report in their quarterly reports and on the fiscal year.

Mine still works, bought it used in 2009, it has around 10 years of use. Even if it breaks, a new optical unit is around 15 dollars. On my PS1, the plastic piece that hold the CD broke and I ended up buying the entire optical unit simply because it was 10 bucks, the plastic piece costs 5 and I at least have a second one now.

Also, affirming that ALL PS2 units broke is a bit of a stretch. Most people didn't had problems. The reason why MS got a lot of hate because of the RROD it's because almost half of the units broke. That alone probably avoided that they crushed the PS3 completely, since they ony fixed it with the Jasper units, when Sony also fixed their hugely stupid idea that people would pay 600 bucks on a console that usually ran multiplats worse than the 300 bucks competitor.

I just saw an article today that stated that some XBOne games would need to be emulated for the system. The Scorpio - unless it's a "By Order Only" system, could be a massive failure because of how much of a wrench it is throwing in things simply for VR.

It's unfortunate to have all this issues. But if you are claiming that most of gamers had this issues, it's incorrect. I know a lot of people with PS2s and none of them had problems with the lens. Both this and the YLOD weren't nowhere near as common as the RROD.

I'm pretty sure that if half of the PS2s broke in a few months, it wouldn't have won the gen by such a large margin, people had other options. The RROD clearly affected the sales potential of the 360 and basically saved the PS3 of a larger fiasco. We can say that MS got lucky that Sony was dumb enough to release a 600 bucks console or they would have probably not reached numbers anywhere close to the ones they have.

The drive isn't particularly hard to replace, but even if you are not tech-savy, you can just take it to someone who can fix it. It isn't very expensive, even in Brazil.