With Project Scorpio and the PS4 Neo coming, there have been more than a few members of the gaming community worrying about what these consoles mean for the industry. If you were to hone in on Microsoft alone, the company released the Xbox One, then the more powerful Xbox One S, and have already announced their plans for Project Scorpio – an even more powerful console.
The incremental steps up in power from the previous consoles could very well mark the end of console generations as we know it. It appears as though the community has every right to wonder about these consoles, even Microsoft's Head of Xbox Games Marketing, Aaron Greenberg, in an interview with Engadget, said console generations might be a thing of the past:
"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."
Even if the incremental steps up in power are an experiment in Microsoft's mind, it could be something confusing to gamers that have grown accustomed to how consoles have grown in the past. What do you think of eliminating traditional console generations for more frequent step ups in hardware?
