It must be nice. The idea of conceptually lining up like good little soldiers in trench warfare on behalf of the XBox and its promises again and again and again. I don't know how some of you do it, but you do it brilliantly. Even better, no one even blames you for it, really. At first, as a newbie to System Wars, it seemed utterly bizarre and perplexing at good times and truly maddening at the worst of times.
But the joke was always on me. Butthurt was dished out and the lols were had, and that's probably what is important. Now, we here 'fam! The PS4 Pro is now a very real thing with all of its faults and realities. It is a tangible box that you can spend real money on and get a real box with plastic bits and bobs delivered to you in early November. It looks like a McDonald's Big Mac and an SR-71 had a love child. The new controller has a little sliver of light up at the top so that way you don't have to hold up the controller to know what its status is. All very very real stuff. Yet, miraculously, there is a shadow looming over the System Wars. At least according to one faction here, all is not well in the Land of System Wars. Off in the distance, a Scorpio thunders. It's "obviously" the most powerful power box that ever powered from a power outlet. The powers of its power will power through the most powerful of foes that bend to it's power with powerful authority. Yet, for everyone here that had a good laugh at my thread with the sketches of the "Neo", the truth of the matter is that the Scorpio is even less than that.
It just makes me wonder.. From an engineering aspect, there's a lot that can be accomplished with the right calculations and a pen with paper. When it comes to Microsoft, we have seen almost innumerable times their ability to dream up a vision for a product but their equal inability to actually deliver said product. Hell, their inability to deliver on their promises repeatedly with the same product in the specific case of the Xbox One. You need only look at the title of this thread. I won't pretend to understand the mentality that it is better to cheer a paper tiger than a real tangible thing you can have and hold. Nevermind that it is on this promise you hinge the hopes and dreams of every waking day from now until over a year from now on this. As far as I, personally am concerned, it is much more likely that when E3 2017 rolls around Microsoft will announce some SUPER ULTRA MEGA tantalizing feature they are adding to the XBox One and then try to run XBox Scorpio's final specifications like the small print at the end of the credits of a big budget movie.
And you will eat that shit up. Like you always do. It would be .4 TFlops faster than the PS4 Pro in reality, but since that paper tiger was put on a pedestal for so long it will be the sweetest most high quality .4 TFlops that ever graced a videogame. ...and then you will spend the next year hyping thread after thread after thread about the new thing that is supposed to make you forget about the old thing that was promised. Or, maybe something really crazy will happen like they start delivering on a really really old thing that was promised and you will have infinite Cloud Power? How is Crackdown, anyway?
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