Console Gaming Was Never About a Premium Experience
The PS4 Pro and the Xbox Scorpio will, at the time of their release, be the most powerful gaming consoles ever made for no other reason than to be the most powerful gaming consoles ever made. Given that technological innovation is not contingent upon the gaming industry, these high-performance consoles will quickly become obsolete, defeating the purpose of their existence. PC gaming will always be several steps ahead, and when corporations are now trying to sell us on that technological performance, they will end up in an escalating trap—because what happens when the Pro and Scorpio are obsolete in three to four years? Do we need a Scorpio 2? A Pro Plus? No. What we need is to be content with consoles for what they are, what they always have been—which has never been to deliver a technologically premium experience; they’ve been about great games and nothing, nothing else.
