No one is going to mention the OP has nothing to do with "future proofing"?
He is talking durability and quality of products but future proofing is providing features or functions that will allow a device to be useful years down the road. An example we all hear is the PS3 having Blu-ray. That was a future proofing attempt because Blu-rays have larger storage capacity and the industry was expected to start using Blu-rays as the default disc format. It has nothing to do with build quality or how long the physical product will last. If PS3 didn't have Blu-ray from the start it would have been a bad decision to add it later as a measure of modernizing its console. Image if the 360 switched to Blu-ray when the Slim came out, even if it could play DVDs still the old 360s would be obsolete and wouldn't be able to play new games that are on Blu-rays.
Now Blu-ray might not be the greatest example since it is not a necessity that would force current systems to update but future proofing is also used in terms of hardware power for gaming devices. By creating a powerful computer you are able to "future proof" your device to run games that will come out years from your original purchase as opposed to using a computer that runs the current available games.
The same goes with Hard Drive space. The larger the HDD the more future proof it is as games advance and increase in size.
Before the PS3 everyone was nice to me :(
