In my opinion, Cerny just admitted that the PS4 Pro is a console that is releasing too soon which is what I've been saying all along. My stance has been that Sony should just wait until native 4K/60 FPS is affordable for the console market. Releasing the Pro this holiday season just doesn't make a lot of sense especially when not many people have 4K TVs right now. Sony would have just been better off riding the success of the PS4 until 2018 when they can release a PS5 that would outperform the Scorpio. I don't get why Sony is so anxious to release this new hardware when both the technology and consumer market aren't ready for it.
Why should Sony hold off when they have the opportunity to steal a year-long march on their primary competitor?
Its not just what the Pro sells in the remainder of calendar year 2016, its what it sells over the first 10-11 months of 2017, the period when MS is rarely competitive with its first-party software and when Sony typically is at their strongest. Its an opportunity to gain even more market and mindshare which is critical given that the goal is to get users to buy in to their ecosystem.
As to people reacting to the sales of the PS4 Slim being relatively slow, what do you think is going to happen to the Xbone S when Scorpio is 3 months out from release?
Considering the projected spec difference, who the hell is going to want to buy the current model unless the price difference is really substantial?
Right now, MS banging the drum about Scorpio is mainly to their advantage, but inevitably they are going to find themselves facing the exact same conundrum that Sony is having to deal with: Specifically, how do you evangelize your new sku without tanking the sales of the current one and crucially making damn sure your extant users don't feel like they've wasted their money.
Sony aren't the ones who in 12 months or thereabouts are going to be needing to find ways of saying, "oh yeah that quasi-4K upgrade box we sold you last year isn't really our proper 4K offering, that's this one... > $399.99 please!"