Well, on the hardware side Microsoft has been pretty locked down. We have to give them credit for that a the very least. All we have so far is what they said in a promo video last E3 and pure conjecture from a widely distributed developer doc from June of 2016. Otherwise we still know nothing about the device (well until Thursday that is.)
As for games. I suspect there will be a surprise of two in June. An no I am not talking Crackdown. Perhaps the Xbox will have it ow...
Doubt it. This is a tech reveal by a third party. OK we might get a peek at Forza 7 video (that is probably a big maybe). More likely if any gameplay is shown it will be current games updated for Scorpio like Horizon 3 or Gears 4. Games will be for E3 not Thursday. I am getting the impression people expect this to be some full reveal. It is not. It merely a look at the internals and capabilities (well many of the expected capabilities/features) and then Digital Foundry discussing it. No...
@Rude-ro "Isn't oculus on its last leg stuck in a legal battle that will most likely shut down the rift? "
WTF are you talking about? Oculus is owned by Facebook with oodles and oodles of cash and a CEO 100% behind it. A CEO that over paid for WhatsApp (19 billion) when it was valued at less than $8 billion at the time. The point is Zuckerberg is excited about VR so Oculus is not going anywhere. Facebook has even set aside $500 million just for content fun...
@VideoGameLab Please it is not dead and I am not even a big fan of VR as it stands now. But, it is all about options. The more options the merrier. If VR/AR/MR isn't your thing I am sure there will be plenty of other things to fill the gaming void.
@uptownsoul3h "Price only overshadows the hardware/specs if its a huge, unattractive price tag... "
Not true. Pricing is a relative thing here. What may be unattractive to a general user, even unwilling to plot $399 for Pro, will find the price of the Scorpio high not matter what. Most looking forward to this device have no problem throwing down $499 (my own expectation of the cost). Those that are against the Scorpio from the get go (I wonder who they are) wi...
@spawnwavemedia True their insurance and investments division is not a drain. And yes it contributes a healthy profit (as I mentioned above) but it hasn't been the main contributor to Sony's profits for the last couple of years. For example, the first 2 quarters of 2016 we saw the gaming division average around 70% of the profits. The third quarter (ending Dec 31) saw the companies overall profits drop mainly do to the smaller contribution of gaming but it was still the main drive...
What other divisions keeping them afloat. It is the other way around PS4 & Insurance divisions keeps the rest of the company. They just took 1 billion write off for 2016 for their movie studio. A studio that for the four previous years hardly made any money (80 or so million profit 2015 on 1.2 billion in expenses). Their phone barely turned a profit this last year after that after several years of losses, music income declined over 20% year to year. TVs and other electronics are hover...
Wait! What? I am still not sure what this event is. This tweet does not say it is an official Microsoft reveal. Is this a full all about the device reveal or is based on the specs of developers kit or did Microsoft give them the OK to talk about certain aspects of the device without actually having a machine to show or will Microsoft be involved with the reveal itself as well? I hope this is not another Rachel Maddow moment in the making.
@tyasia0 Destiny is just the same as Halo but, the names have been changed to protect the innocent. It was not this great creative jump that Bungie was complaining they wanted and Microsoft apparently not willing to give. Seriously, buying Bungie, as suggested would, would lead to more eye rolling. They brining nothing to the table It is the same game as several of Xbox's other first party games: future infested alien hordes FPS. It adds no diversity to the Xbox catalog. One trick po...
Really?It sounds more like something from downtown Democrap city.
Point. Don't bring politics into something with the assumption you are on some moral high ground supported by misguided ideologue beliefs. This is especially important where politics are not even remotely related.
@IAmLoki1d The Pro has 9GB not 8GB. There was 1GB of DDR3 memory added for auxiliary purposes.
As for the Scorpio I do hope they have a $450 model. But, IMO they would have to absorb more cost (a true loss leader) than they would want to. I am sure they are going to sell this device as a loss leader or at least getting awfully close to selling it so. But, that elasticity to do so has its limits. Perhaps, as I have said before, they could remove the 4KUHD drive (no disc ...
Phil also said it will be in the range of this generations current console prices. So $499, like the original Xbox One, meets that criteria.
Isn't the PS4 Pro I have a premium device? Sony told us all it was. Were they lying to me? I mean according to you a Premium device like the PS4 Pro could never be $399 (no Premium means much more). But, my Visa bill tells me it was $399. The same price as the original PS4 of three years ago. I expect Premium means the same thing...
I don't know about a price drop for the PS4 Pro this year. Fans seem to think that Sony is not there to make money. They are a business first. You just have to look at their last quarter numbers (Q3 2016). Although they sold more PS4 than ever during that period (ending in Dec 31) the price cut on the PS4 meant that (less per unit profit) ate into the overall profits that even more software sales brought during that same period could not make up. You can look at quarterly's compa...
How is trying to be it's own device? Microsoft from the beginning has said time and time again the same thing as Sony has said about the PS4 Pro. Repeat: Scorpio is part of this Xbox One family. Anything else said about it being a 2.0 device is from others not Microsoft.
As for no exclusives I always laugh when people say exclusives. What does that mean? It will have console exclusives. Sure not as much this year as my PS4 but, it has them and in most cases they wil...
@yomfweeee "1000 times as many users." Where did you get your made up numbers? That is most annoying thing when people do that. Just say their are currently a greater amount of users on Twitch don't make up $hit.
Every Windows 10 PC will soon have Beam built-in as part of the Creators update (April 11th) and every Xbox One will have it as of today. 27+ million Xbox One users and 450+ million Windows 10 users sure beat Twitch total users. Even if we only ...
@Gaming4Life1981 Sorry, $499 may be the most likely price without over pricing the console but, no way in heck will it have any additional hardware at that price. No elite (a $149 controller and $99 Kinect included). I guess they could have another SKU, the Xbox Scorpio Super Stinger edition for $150 more, perhaps doubling the hard drive size (to 2TB) and include one of those things but definitely not at $499.
Because I have friends and like to be social. I don't sit my dark room, in a stained chair playing games on my 27" monitor (non-HDR, non-4K monitor) like 90+% of the Masterbater Race does. Hey, better lock your door your momma might not knock again and boy that wasn't embarrassing for you last time.
Your point? Of course, more people will opt for the S over the Scorpio for general gameplay just like they opt for the cheaper PS4 original over the PS4 Pro. I don't see how that affects either Microsoft's or Sony's intended narrative they have made about these devices from the very beginning. These are premiere consoles for people with more disposable income, mommies and daddies who love them more that other mommies or daddies, or "real" gamers driven to have the bes...
@peewee11016 have ever played Destiny? It is no more online only than Titanfall2 or Halo5. Like those games, it has a single player campaign. Sure you can't play the online MP portion but, that would be the same with any system (PS4, PC, Xbox) when the network is down. You should be able to play the SP.
