@SolidTy said:
@NeonicTrash: The 360 comparison doesn't fly because those games are different skus and a different entire library than the Xbone. They were different generations with their own games. The 360 released in 2005, the Xbone in 2013, and they play different games. Different games for consumers to buy off the wall of the game/retail store. The Xbone Scorpio plays Xbone games off the shelf, it is an Xbone designed for 4K and plays the Xbone games available today.
Whether Xbox execs and Phil Spencer are lying about the future of the Scorpio is one thing you are free to believe, but what we do know is that day one the Xbone Scorpio will only play the exact same Xbone games on the shelf for people to buy, much like the PS4 Pro plays PS4 games.
It's an Xbone.5 and it's library will be the exact same Xbone games we play today...with enhancements. I'll just save tons of money $$$ and continue to play my Xbone until a new Xbox comes out with a new generation of exclusive games that I can't play on my Xbone.
Different SKUs, but the caveat to that is they had to be cause the 360 was a Power PC and X1 is X86 architecture which presumably all future Xboxes will continue to be, to maintain backwards compatibility/game scaling features. Had the 360 and X1 been more similar, and had it not taken awhile for BC to come to X1, we may have actually seen games continue to come out labeled only as 360, that when put into a 1 would simply scale up in visuals and performance. Since that's exactly what we're about to see, with games only sporting the branding of the older, X1 console, but put into the new Scorpio, they are running better.
I never said anything about Spencer or Xbox execs LYING. I'm speculating and making predictions on what their long term plans are. Long term plans that've yet to be made public. Corporations, like politicians can and do change their mind and stances all the time. It's also possible that presently they have no plans to actually ever have Scorpio exclusive games but that could change AT ANY POINT, when they will simply announce a change in policy.
You say your saving tons of $ sitting out on the Scorpio, but then say you'd buy the next Xbox after that. With your lack of enthusiasm for Scorpio I'd presume you haven't upgraded to a 4k TV yet. For those of us who have, we want to game in 4k NOW. We want to see our already released X1 (and even 360 games) looking and performing the best they can THIS YEAR. We don't want to wait another 3-5 years for that experience. So that means you still have to get that, and then the new Xbox (whose primary feature I'd imagine is native 4k 60fps across the board for all titles from day 1)...so really, you are spending about the same as me in the long term. Got my 4k TV awhile back, getting the Scorpio this fall. And then I don't expect the next Xbox till maybe 4 or more years from this year? A long time to wait to upgrade your console.
If a major dev comes to MS and wants to make them an exclusive, but it can ONLY run on Scorpio, and we're talking let's say 1-3 years from now, and it'd be a great money making game for MS, you really think MS is gonna be like no, sorry, we said some things in 2016 we can never go back on no matter what. I just don't see that happening.
Also I'm sticking with my theory till proven otherwise that the games that come out for the Xbox after Scorpio may still be playable on a Scorpio, just at lower settings, thereby extending the lifespan of the console and giving more value to my planned Scorpio investment. MS is not just going to abandon support for Scorpio within 3-4 years after release at the same time it drops support for the original X1. It's specs will still be viable enough to be receiving new games, even if they are downgraded from what's running on the newest Xbox.
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