Well, Michael lots of us have 4K TVs now
Michael Pachter, for some reason or another, is considered a go to analyst in the gaming business. He’s often quoted while giving his thoughts on various business decisions the big companies make and, for better or for worse, has been known to be right here and there. Pachter’s latest comments come via The 1099, where he spoke about the upcoming Xbox Scorpio. Launching later this year with a massive 6TFLOPS GPU, the console will debut as the most powerful console ever made. Pachter’s thoughts? An over engineered and over promised debacle in the making, apparently.
‘I’ll wait and see what Scorpio is and what it’s priced but from what I’ve read, it’s probably over engineered. I’ll believe it will run a game at full 4K… except, do we really need that? And I get the PS4 Pro is weaker, but there’s a lot of room between 1080p and 4K. 1080p is 2 million pixels, 4K is 8 million pixels. My understanding is that Oculus runs at 2.6 million pixels, so Oculus isn’t even 4K. So when they say Scorpio will be 4K, if Oculus with a $1500 PC can’t be 4K, do you really believe Scorpio, at $400-$500 can be 4K? I don’t know, I want to wait and see. So it sounds great, and everyone is excited, but… who has a 4KTV?’
The fact is that 4K technology has not only come down significantly in price but it’s also being adopted at a pretty decent rate. Ultimately, these were the same questions raised when we made the jump to HDTVs as well. At some point, the console manufacturers have to make the jump and get ahead of the curve. Sony has done it to a lesser extent with the PS4 Pro and has seen a measure of success so it’s very likely that we’ll see a similar success story to the Xbox Scorpio.
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