analysis: The Scorpio and Neo are a betrayal of trust that might come back to bite Microsoft and Sony

By Jon Porter

Every console generation starts with a chicken and egg dilemma. The shiny new hardware that emerges into the wild might have high hopes and higher price tags, but it inevitably launches with a games library that’s a mere shadow of the consoles it hopes to replace.

For awhile the trickle of games is slow. Developers don’t want to spend too much money developing for a console that not enough people own, and yet those same people won’t take the plunge until enough games exist on the system.

This situation arises every six years or so, and yet every time the new consoles manage to slowly but surely take off despite this seemingly impossible paradox.

So why do consumers chose to buy a console with no games on it? And why do developers make games for machines that nobody owns?

The answer to both has a little to do with confidence, and a little to do with trust.

And it’s this trust that the PlayStation Neo and Project Scorpio might just break.

A pact made in plastic

It seems like an obvious answer, but people buy consoles not for the games that are already out, but because …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming