Probably not because Scorpio will be eating their lunch from release (it already is pre-release in hype).
What? But how, in what way? No gamer would jump PS, they've got the biggest and the best thing they care about, MS won't be eating any more lunch than they do now, that's for sure(If we knew final PS4 specs in June of 2012 they hype would have been even bigger, that doesn't say a lot, really).
It's such a mess now with this iterative stuff.
Such is the mess of iterative consoles. A real mess...
Nothing iterative is happening so far, not really.
Sony will have to respond to Scorpio, and in at a somewhat timely manner, so what, PS5 in (no earlier possible IMO with tech lead times) PS5 in 2019? Just leaving in the dust million of PS4 and worse expensive, brand new, PS4 Neo owners?
Sony
doesn't have to. Why, oh why, do everyone expect Sony to undercut MS at every turn, yet, don't expect this from MS? I even saw topic about Sony facing MS on PC on NeoGAF, like, WUT? MS is going somewhere else with Scorpio, Sony doesn't have to go the same way. NewPS4 can act as a response anyway, even the one with the leaked and likeliest specs.
It's possible consoles are dying anyway, I think this could hasten it. Or maybe make it more healthy if it works but...more likely the former IMO.
This makes sense less than "PC gaming is dying". The №1 reason of why all of this is happening is the cost of it, something like this wasn't possible during the 7th generation, but it is now.
One idea might be make Neo the new baseline PS4 when PS5 hits. Old PS4 left by wayside. PS5 titles run on PS4 Neo with no AA, worse textures, 20-30 FPS, etc but at least run. Ms can also do this with Xbox Two/Scorpio.
That's assuming there is a "PS5" and not just forever iterations.
Exactly my last post:
They are not switching model in the first place, these(New PS4, at least, we don't know full NewBox specs yet) are not upgrade(=replacement) consoles, they are just premium offers over standart ones, coexisting with each other(even longer lifecycle for the original console, if anything), happening only because it's super cheap(compared to previous gen) and AMD has managed to push this idea through to make some money.
Even if they fly, we still should have proper next-gen(with New PS4 being not much closer to PS5 than original PS4, so NO PS4-PS4.5-PS5 mobile-like kind of logic) with another mid-gen premium consoles coming out after node shrink "now offering 2160p+ only"(like New PS4 will offer 1080p+ only), that's about it.
That is if we go by the leaked(DF) specs.
MS may do that, otherwise Scorpio won't live long.
I think people have overblown the whole thing. Scorpio is not Xbox 360, PS4 is not PS2.
Here is a perspective for you, Scorpio is not going to be able to run games at 60 fps with the gfx NewPS4 would be able to produce at 30(CPU-limited, DF specs), not just *not better gfx*, not even the same, the difference is not generational, hell, even if you compare it to original PS4, it's not.
Look, here's the thing, even if Sony releases the most fantastic, theoretically impossible, PS5 next year, total reset won't happen anyway until the next decade starts(and by that time shining 7nm(it's should look way better than 14nm hardware does now, especially for -) consoles become a reality, rendering 14nm PS5(Scorpio?) redundant and even harmful financially), and that's even with Sony actively pushing it, that's why i say, that it's ultimately up to them, gaming industry(EA, Ubisoft, T2) welcomes NewPS4 and Scorpio exactly because they don't do reset(even if the latter might be capable for it), Rockstar is working to bring RD3, GTA6 and other projects on PS4, X1 and similarly powered machines, it's not going abandon them any time soon either way, just like vast majority of the industry in any case.
TL;DR Sony is not going to lose anything by allowing Scorpio to be "the most powerful" console for 3(+) years.
