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Ori and the Blind Forest developer Thomas Mahler has offered some real hot takes on Project Scorpio, posting on NeoGAF claiming the console is much more than a simple upgrade.
“All consoles now are x86 PCs and the architecture will remain the same, that’s why Sony was able to quickly iterate on the PS4 and make a beefier version of it,” he explained.
“Scorpio is a next-gen machine with the added benefit that all your old games will still be compatible. From this point on, similar to PCs, you’ll not lose your library when you buy a next-gen system.”
And here’s the juicy bit: “I guess since NeoGAF is confused, Microsoft will need to do a little work to make it clear to everyone that Scorpio isn’t just a half-assed upgrade (which the PS4 Pro kinda is…), but a full blown next-gen machine that’s just backwards-compatible to your current library.”
Shots fired.
The post came before the Scorpio white paper was revealed by Digital Foundry, though there is very little in the paper to argue against what Mahler says.
Source: NeoGAF
