Well we wouldn't need a mid gen update if ps4 was 500-600$ at start, because some people don't want to spend that much money, then we have DF counting to few pixels and people arguing how this gen is underpowered, and then pc master elitist's saying then buy a f*** pc, but honestly I don't want a pc I want a capable console, and well that's the answer a mid-gen update

"Microsoft says it will come with a 4K Blu-ray drive" . Since when did Microsoft announce that then? . Another article just dreamed up. Getting really bored of the same crap every day! .

Fanboy drivel is right! This article ignores the very obvious fact that Microsoft follows and does whatever Sony does nowadays.

PS PRO will be the most powerful console when it is released in a months time and will remain so for a year or more until (and if) Scorpio gets released. There is nothing that Microsoft has that can compete until then. X-Box One S is far less powerful and should not be even compared with the PS PRO which is a genuine mid-generation upgrade.

If and when Scorpio is released, Microsoft can shout from the rafters that it has the most powerful console and hopefully shift millions. If and when that happens, one can make the argument that Microsoft has changed the rules. However, I doubt that Microsoft will even catch up with the number of PS PRO sold by then let alone the number of PS4 and PS4 Slim consoles for one reason alone - Sony and the Playstation will always have more games and gamers want to play the games that Sony is bringing out.

I have no quarrels with them breaking Rules or changing them , beside if events like this do not occur everything just tends to remain the same and that can become very mundane . So I say let them forge ahead and change all rules as they go .

On that topic of "Microsoft changing the rules" I think this interview with Phil is interesting:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/20...

It clearly shows Xbox Division is evolving alongside the Microsoft core services:
Xbox Live as service on multiple devices. You choose where you game. The console is the easiest plug&play device that enables you to game.

Some refernces of the article:

"To be clear, the console market operates at low margins. Quite often those margins don’t exist. More often than not there’s a clear operating loss."
“Consoles are an enabler to make money with our partners,” explains Phil."
http://www.kotaku.com.au/20...

"Phil is talking about PCs, he’s talking about mobile. It speaks to a secondary Microsoft purpose — the idea of fluidity between devices. The idea that the device disappears and the service itself takes priority. Phil believes this is the philosophy that will push consoles through that glass ceiling, towards those stratospheric mainstream numbers. Then we see the domino effect of that shift. The end result: more video games and better video games.

“Instead of trying to say is there a way for everyone to need a game console — I don’t think that’s true. It’s a large market and it’s a good market, but we can’t turn consoles into something like a cell phone.

“But if we look at the people who are playing games on our service at any point. A lot of them are on consoles, a lot are on windows. More and more are coming from phone. That’s when we start to look at numbers like 200 million, 300 million.

Is this a world where the console, as a fetishised product we purchase and worship, is dead?

Not exactly, says Phil.

“The device becomes the ‘on ramp’ to where I play,” says Phil. “I want there to be multiple on ramps.”

Gaming without boundaries. That’s the tagline. That’s the marketing schtick. It’s also the end goal."
http://www.kotaku.com.au/20...

The author needs to study business.
Microsoft is and has been a reactionary business since they wanted more than just a operating system.
Their heavy push in marketing and advertising has them scrambling to try figure out how to capture people to buy their products and become the leader in marketing and advertising outlets.
Examples, their phone division was about ten years too late and failed. Their tablet business was about 4 years behind the curve and does not shine in the market. Their zune never found a footing for being behind.

So Microsoft started depending on "future" talk of which has put them in the situation they are in.
Cloud computing, hololens, and Scorpio are all examples of reactionary promises.
At e3 they run out on stage and say 6tflops and the fanbase uses it as some sort of guide for midrange consoles yet make fun of Sony for showing off actual gameplay of games to come over the next year giving reasons to invest in their vision as a gamer. They create a war cry saying Microsoft showed off games that are releasing... but praise a 6tflops promise from a company that has not made a new AAA game in over 6 years?
The last 6 years of Microsoft has been over promising and people are putting beliefs into "6tflops"?
The cloud was used to try to convince people that their console will be more powerful, Hololens was their "creative" answer to vr but is at least two years from actually releasing and now, the fanbase is beating their chest about "6tflops" but yet can not list any games for the next year except for three delayed games shown off last year and another halo and another forza because, well....

When will people realize that power is not microsofts issue?
This E3, Microsoft will need more than power to entice gaming consumers outside of their diehard fans. They will have to show games coming out and games that are in the works(going against the showing games coming out war cry of last e3).
Their biggest push in the business was with the year head start with the 360 and third party games that were exclusive to the new gen of which made it appear that they had tons of exclusives.
So, either Microsoft will either actually have to start making games or they will push heavily with third party deals creating a monopoly and thus absolutely leading it nowhere near to "Microsoft changing the rules". More like, they are trying to figure out the rules.

Same Sony trolls on every Scorpio article saying 6tflops & it doesn't exist, yet keep screaming about a PS5 coming out in 2 or 3 years when nobody even mentions it...LOL Trolls gonna be trolls

I've always said MS needs to do what best for MS , if that mean breaking , changing or re-writing them so be it enough with the kid gloves BS.

Please guys stop talking about what might happen and what rules will be changing from over a year from now lol.