@consolehaven:
--companies always use viral campaigns these days
--and believe it or not
--MS is still using this as a story(here today)
--it is nowhere near the impact they had hoped to stir 3-4 years ago
--but nevertheless
--it does draw attention to the xbox brand
--positive energy(interesting and something to gab about)
--and something unique

--product marketing is not always like selling used tires(get em today 12$ a piece!)
--with long term marketing of a brand
--you have to slowly and steadily lace people's minds with the brand
--until it feels like your friend
--sorta like the geico gecko(such a likable little fella)

@johnholmes:
--you basically agree with my logic
--because how can a console
--that has 'hardly even had time' to be designed~manufactured and primed with launch exclusives
--be coming out in like 1 year?
--it does not make sense friend

--the ONLY way what you are saying makes sense
--is if MS started developing scorpio right around the time xb1 was launching
--xb1 has been out right around 3 years
--was it year 2 of xb1's life cycle that they decided to design an entirely new console?
--or
--was it right around the time that xb1 had failed so hard that they were about to be wiped off the map
--that MS started giving away xb1 bundles
--and talking about the messiah of consoles(coming next year)
--the scorpio

@siarhei:
--but you have to admit
--sony was not planning on having to use ps4pro to compete with scorpio
--and ps4pro and scorpio are not the "same thing"
--which is what sony wants to keep concealing
--by jibber jabbering nonsense

--bottom line is
--Neo was a more powerful console(it may even have been a separate entity~speculation)
--to be released along side PSVR(what else would they have been working on?)
--and now sony is all
--oh no no
--we got the answer to scorpio
--when
--the obvious truth is
--even xbox does not know exactly what scorpio is

@Barighm:

--all i am saying is
--2 months before announcement?
--in video gaming console land?
--that is like sony getting scorpio's specs(and the entire prototype)
--what?
--almost 1/2 a year ago?

@smokerob79:
--2 months before announcement?
--not 2 months before launch
--yes
--sony would definitely pay for that console(almost priceless info)
--i mean
--they probably found one anyway
--but
--if the xb1 console was not available to sony at all
--the prototype would be worth A TON(during that time frame)

--lots of pandering to the audience these days with the new stuff
--why guess and hope
--when you can just give people what they want?

--if you are not gonna make a racing game
--fighting
--FPS/3PS map based PVP(which should be in mostly all great online games~but this is a standard game type by itself)
--strategy~puzzle~indie~retro
--if you wanna make "the game"(the future ~the present~the shit)
--it all starts with 2 things
--AMAZING well developed game-play basics
--and then
--DEEP DEEP DEEP personalized RPG character customization(weapon~vehicle~and home base)
--i mean
--what was the division then? right?
--it was 'almost' all that except
--the gameplay was not AMAZING
--and it CERTAINLY was not well-developed
--but
--you gotta have that DEEP personalizable option in the characters
--that is what gamers want(in this type of game)
--and
--it is what makes games fun
--gtaonline has it down
--but
--gtao gets old(i have not played it but about 500hrs and i quit around a year ago)
--as all games do
--but it is literally the only game 'doing it right'
--more game companies should just copy R*
--that is all the division is
--it is like a VERY small part of gtaO
--the division was basically gtaO's "mission parts"
--and that is sorta all the division is

--when you are trying to make a great game
--a real top tier piece of AAA heaven
--it only really requires a few elements(at it's core)
--one is a developer with a solid vision
--working with a solid team
--on familiar software and hardware
--and 'the right' budget
--but
--even in this perfect atmosphere for creating the best games
--some games are gonna suck(and score all the way down the scale)
--but the best games ALWAYS come from that exact basic formula

--now
--if you want a game to suck
--here is what you do
--get the developers mixed up with the suits
--let the suits have to much say so
--try and make everyone happy(fan service~pandering to the audience)
--paying WAY TOO much attention to lunatics on the web who are usually only 'complaining'
--i guess
--you cannot 'force out' a great game
--it has to be a natural growth

--it is all very simple
--and
--not every game is gonna be platinum
--but every game that ever has been
--they were all built with those aforementioned characteristics in the development process

@smokerob79:
--2 months before xb1 even gets announced?
--to the right person
--that console woulda been worth as much as a million dollars or more
--just call sony
--ya know?

--uhhh
--that is not the truth
--they just did this(back then) to create xb1 news stories(and hype)
--this story obviously never 'got hot' or went viral

--you gotta understand folks
--nothing is what it seems to be(especially with a company as powerful as MS)
--and when something is this ridiculously unlikely???
--if it actually happened
--MS would have seen the console was missing(quickly)
--and when he hooked it to his internet(or when he called them)
--MS would have come to his house
--and over the next few weeks
--secretly exterminated the man's entire bloodline

--this is as likely as
--like ordering a GE washing machine
--and 'somehow a fricking nother'
--GE accidentally shipped you a 'top secret government weapon of war prototype'
--because
--well see
--GE 'apparently' was hiding the top secret stuff
--RIGHT THERE in the regular ole GE shipping departments.... blah blah bloah

--this should be fun
--for about as long as pokemon go was