@Juub1990: This is why the Scorpio's price point is so important. At $399 the Scorpio could be a winner. At $499 it is virtually guaranteed to be a dud.

Well if you did a better job...

SPAM. There is already a Nintendo Switch sales topic on the front page from yesterday:

https://www.gamespot.com/forums/system-wars-314159282/nintendo-switch-tops-npd-with-over-900000-units-so-33387818/#163

For another $100 Nintendo could have added a larger battery, better cooling, and overclock (instead of underclock) the X1 (perhaps even a die shrink).

All this would be for naught: with these advances the NS would still only be about half as powerful as an Xbone (~700 vs 1300 GFLOPS).

I have to solute Sony for having the balls to create the Cell. It was a monster that completely dusted every other CPU in floating point performance.

Unfortunately it exacerbated a huge (and growing) problem in the industry. Game development is already difficult, time consuming, and expensive and the Cell made it more so.

That is a perplexing paradox; the current graphics king is on obsolete hardware.

1)Bloodborne

2)Horizon: Zero Dawn

3)The Witcher 3

Honorable mentions: Dark Souls 3 and Uncharted 4

This has been a really great generation IMO. There are a ton of games that are on the horizon (RDR2, TLoU2, GoW, Prey, Outlast II, etc) and a lot of games that are out that I haven't been able to play yet (Nioh, Zelda:BotW, Nier: Automata, etc). It's a great time to be a gamer.

Who knew obsolescence could be so much fun?

Super Mario Sunshine was shit.

*sinking ship