EDD is Microsoft's Apple core? Next gen console implications.

[kitler53]

NiKKoM said:

Squilliam said:

Sega wasn't a multibillion dollar company which is number 1: in PC operating systems and may end up being number 2/3 smartphone OS manufacturer with vast sway over both the consumer industry and the semiconductor industry.

Sega/Microsoft

Apples/Oranges

neh I meant time after time sega proved that consumers don't like that after a time they can't play the same games on their machines.. in sega case with hardware addons.. Genesis Sega CD 32x and Saturn 4MB cartridge FMV cartridge..

A phone cycle is 2 years.. I can see many angry mothers for buying a new console every 2 years case dear johnny wants to play Gears of War Triple Xtreme.. on the iPhone you can't play all the new games on the original iPhone.. but you can make calls and it still texts which is it's core function..

having people upgrade to keep using the core function wont work..

i kind of agree with this but at the same time i kinda agree with squilliam.  there are a lot of people that just haaave to have the newest whatever while many others don't.

the thing that apple does is add a bunch of marginal additions to the casual consumer that the hardcore consumer has to have.  3G, more hardware space, video, ect.

not that there aren't new users buying the slim versions of the ps360 but i think there are also a lot of upgraders.

if they can find a sweetspot between maintaining a core functionality while continually adding key additions there could really milk the consumer for all they are worth. xD

kind of like the DS -> DS lite -> DSi -> DSi XL -> 3DS ...

edit: before i get accused of trolling; i included the 3DS because it is fully BC yet pushing the lifecycle forward much like the iphone XX to the iphone 4 did.