I find it unlikely that a new Xbox that's more powerful than the PS4 Pro would be DoA...MS would have to go insane with the pricing for that to happen.
Well, thing is that power alone likely isn't remotely enough to have this thing fly off shelves.
The PS4 Pro, which was priced super reasonably, doesn't really take home a big cut of the total PS4 sales, even though it's over twice as powerful and a big upgrade for people playing on 4K TV's.
I expect the Xbox Scorpio to do the exact same,
if it's actually priced reasonably.
The mass market genuinely isn't going to spend upwards of 500 bucks to play Xbox One games in native 4K or with some sharper looking graphics. They simply won't.
Power might mean everything on these boards or in twitter feuds between rabid fanboys. But in the real world, it's the entry price that matters more.
And Xbox isn't going to be top dog of
anything if they bring out a 500+$ powerhouse that only a niche audience will actually pick up. And besides that, what's the incentive for the developers even putting in work to create Scorpio patches if it's that niche? I don't think creating some 'high-end' console audience works.
Hence why I think they are going with a reasonable jump over the PS4 Pro just to take the crown, but they sure as hell aren't going to burn themselves by pricing themselves out of the market. They have a lot to prove this holiday.
