Granted as a gaming PC enthusiast this is not looking good for me as I was hoping upgrade to ZEN, but as of now, it seems that there will not be upgrade to anyone with OC 4770K or above user.
But I just don't understand why everybody is so negative towards this? It's not like that ZEN is not good at anything because as of now, it will probably not be viable upgrade path for you. Surely there will be some market for MOAR corez with good power efficiency? Rendering? Encoding? Servers?
Besides, AMD is on dire need for high single core IPC product, when you can probably make the changes later for it to get higher clocks even though it will initially be a pretty bleak for your preferences.
Think about consoles, without ZEN there won't be any AMD consoles after NEO and scorpio, but now because of ZEN, AMD has basically secured it's position for the next gen of consoles too. Maybe ARM could have had some change against PUMA cores in the future, but nothing against ZEN at ivy IPC.
Do any of you remember palomino vs throughbred-b core? Not sure was that massive jump in clocks only because the move from 180nm process to 130nm process, but that sure was massive change. Palomino was super hot and clocked low, but with throughbred you got 800-1000MHz more clocks easily. I guess the designs today are so much complex and the process cahange not so massive, that is not possible?