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Microsoft Says Upcoming Project Scorpio Might Be the Last Console Generation (engadget.com)
Earlier this year, Xbox chief Phil Spencer expressed desires to see a steady stream of hardware innovation rather than a typical seven-year gap between different console generations, noting smartphone market as inspiration. In an interview with Engadget, Aaron Greenberg, Microsoft's Head of Xbox Games Marketing has hinted that the company's upcoming Project Scorpio is likely going to be the last generation of Xbox console you will ever need to purchase. From the report: I think it is ... For us, we think the future is without console generations, we think that the ability to build a library, a community, to be able to iterate with the hardware, we're making a pretty big bet on that with Project Scorpio. We're basically saying 'this isn't a new generation, everything you have continues forward and it works.' We think of this as a family of devices. But we'll see, we're going to learn from this, we're going to see how that goes. So far I'd say based on the reaction there appears to be a lot of demand and interest around Project Scorpio, and we think it's going to be a pretty big success. If the games and the content deliver, which I think they will do, I think it will change the way we think about the future of console gaming."
Exactly. What Microsoft has just done is ensure I won't be buying the XBone Two (XBone Too?) either, because they've taken away the main thing which makes it preferable to gaming on my desktop PC: The fact that every game runs properly and never crashes, stutters or glitches because my hardware is different to that the devs tested on.
Does the Microsoft console platform I'll never have to buy another of contain all of the 640k RAM that I'll ever need?
It's worse than that: they convinced a lot of device makers to use PlaysForSure then stabbed them in the back by releasing their own device and v2 neither which was compatible with their partners. Then they abandoned v1 and shortly after that their v2 customers.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
http://www.pcgamer.com/tim-sweeney-thinks-microsoft-will-make-steam-progressively-worse-with-windows-10-patches/
Not a steam employee, but a well-known figure in the industry.