Gamers aren’t the only ones excited about the PlayStation 4 Neo and Xbox One Scorpio; publishers and developers are just as excited, but they’re even more so with the this upcoming console generation being more of an upgrade than an outright new console. EA executive vice president Patrick Söderlund told GameInformer at gamescom that they’re likening it to the SEGA CD upgrade in the early 90s, but of course they point out that this is quite bigger.

I believe that it’s an interesting approach. We haven’t seen this whole idea of upgrading since the Mega CD in 1991 or something. At the time, that might not have worked, but this is different. I can only comment to what’s been announced by Microsoft, the whole idea of keeping the ecosystem intact and scaleable is right. If you get in later in the cycle, you can get a Scorpio or you can upgrade to it. It’s an interesting, smart approach, and we’ll see how well it works. It’s something that we as a company are 100 percent behind. I got super excited when I saw what they are working on, and without giving you any information, the same is true of Sony. In general, this is a good thing.
Naturally, he went on to praise how well the Frostbite engine will work across these consoles.

From a technical and developer perspective, it’s actually really straightforward for us. We have an engine in Frostbite that is dynamic and scaleable. It’s an engine that today supports ...