| Turkish said:
1st off: You just assume the Cell cpu has become twice as cheap, it probably hasn't considering the PS3 didn't get much price cut since 2009. The basic version should cost less than 150 euro by now but it's still above 200 euros. And then again, $20 added BoM cost that's eating away from their profit is too much to please an awfully small group of people on the internet begging for BC. BC really isn't the reason people buy new consoles, and they knew they had PS Now coming. Any effort to BC is just wasted. 2nd: glad you didn't design the PS4 because you just continue to make the console more expensive.One thing I agree is that they should've clocked the cpu higher, the gpu is good as it is but it seems to be bottlenecked by the cpu. 3rd: here comes the confusing part. Who the hel in their mind would allow multiplayer in a free subscription when 95% of the people who signed up for PS+ did for multiplayer? Your plan just make it overly complicated and try to persuade people to sign up with far lesser reasons. The vast majority doesnt care about the ads or 10GB cloud storage or having unlimited friends or having 12 accounts. WTF? They care about their multiplayer. PS+ would not have 1/10th the subs it does today. What you just proposed was a really terrible idea and really one of a gamer on a forum mind rather than someone who is running a business.
4th: again, they didnt need to waste 10s of millions of dollars for a better exclusive support. 20M bought the console without the support anyway. You just put all of Sony studios effort in the 1st and 2nd years, congrats, in this age where big AAA games take +3-4 years to make, you have nothing left for 2016 and onwards. On top of that, you assume you have money left and spent that money to get 3rd party games exclusive in a period when 3rd parties where predicting the xbone to win. Back when Titanfall was being conceived EA was betting on Xbox. FFXV went multiplat for a reason, they didnt believe in the PS4, getting those titles exclusive if they were conceived today would've been far more cheaper. SFV is a recent project, Capcom saw PS4s sales, calculated they didnt need a second console for the game to reach its audience and accepted Sony's offer. I agree with you about GT6 however, it has been worked on since GT5s release in 2010, had they continued to work on it for 2 more years and made it PS4 exclusive, it'd come out this holiday.
Wit the 1st and 2nd points Sony might've still greenlit your idea, with the 3rd and 4th points they would fire you in a week. |
1. The Cell processor probably costs almost nothing to manufacturer now. If it was $37 in 2009, it's probably not even half that today. The reason the PS3 still costs so much is profit.
And as I said, if the Cell processor is too expensive then the add-on module would work. Kind of like the power base converter. That would actually have been my more realistic choice for BC.
2. It wouldn't have cost much more to manufacturer.
3. PS+ was optional on the PS3 and still did great. People would get PS+ to get many of those features, plus a far better online multiplayer. The connections for PSN regular users would be weak - think of it like PS2 dial-up online play vs. broadband online play.
4. The PS4 is selling great but could sell even better. The Xbox is making a comeback now. You're thinking short term. If the PS4 wants to be the next PS2 it's gonna need heavy hitters.
Plus you're taking this too seriously. Just have fun with it, pretend you're designing your own console.
