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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."
The new Appbox Scorpio only apps APPS, NOT LUDDITE games like the LUDDITE Xbox One, and modern app appers ONLY app apps! Apps!
...they can have my money for another console if and when they abandon this incredibly toxic and annoying "cloud"-based approach to gaming. I am NOT going to spend money on a console that inherits the unacceptable shortcomings of the XB One. Put the games on disk, sell the disc, let me stick the disc in the machine. it should work. It should NOT go into a paroxysm of download after download at the game and system and add-on level. I have literally watched a NEW game take HOURS to become usable on the XB One. Wrong direction, Microsoft (and Sony, and whoever.) I pay, I stick it in the console, and it works. Otherwise, no thanks. My time is worth more than your bleeding cloud-mania.
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I've suspected this for a while now. I think in the future we'll see Xbox and Playstation branded PCs with Live and PSN as Steam alternatives.
The reason I dare say most people buy a console for games is they know any game they buy for that console will just-simply-work (unless it's from EA). If you don't mind the upgrade / incompatibility issues, you're probably already bought a PC and play your games there. Why do we need to turn console gaming into yet another version of PC gaming exactly? (other than the obvious - because we want more money)
If nothing else, they're already late to the game in the arena of merging PC and console gaming: Steam BigPicture anyone?
Take that away and what exactly would differentiate Scorpio from a gaming PC?
My guess is: cost
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The whole POINT of a console over a PC is a known quantity for software makers.
I thought the point was to get gamers continually re-buy their game library and gaming accessories every few years by breaking all compatibility and discontinuing support for the old system.
Who cares if the XB1 can play Sagittarius games? The import thing will be that the Sagittarius can play XB1 games, and Scorpio games. And that the Taurus can play XB1 games, and Scorpio, and Sagittarius. And so on.
Look at how excited everybody got when Red Dead Redemption was finally announced for XB1 backwards compat.
People expect that their old rig can't play Witcher 3, but people also expect that their brand new, top-of-the-line rig can play the old games, perhaps with dosbox or some other emulation. But gog.com is absolutely a thing that proves that concept.
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The 360's memory and CPU were so limited, it just couldnt make big worlds.
Didn't games like TES: Skyrim, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas and Just Cause 2 come out for Xbox 360? Just how large does a game world have to be before you consider it to be "big"?
IMO best combination is PC plus whatever Nintendo console is out at the time. Obviously Nintendo games are never going to come out on another platform, so you need that console for your Marios and your Zeldas etc. But most (maybe 75-80%) of games that come out for one or both of the other two consoles tend to come out on PC as well. So I think if you are restricting yourself to two devices total, PC+Nintendo casts the widest net in terms of 'having the most games available to me'.