zarx said:
but if you do that you might as well release a nextgen console as everyone would need to buy a new console to get the improvements so all the existing owners would be annoyed and the developers wouldn't bother with it because only a small fraction of the userbase would have it. any change of the base components (RAM, CPU, GPU etc) would mean new games would have to be developed for it so you just get stuck with the old problems a pissed off userbase and make no difference to the majority of games. |
A new order of parts would be a lot cheaper than developing an entirely new console from scratch. It'd take a whole lot less time as well.
Thinking from the standpoint that Nintendo's really the only one that can take the large hits from the R&D of a brand new console (if done right).
