Sony Won't Release PS4 until 2014 and It Won't Be a Gimped Console.

[greenmedic88]

I'm not counting on the PS4 being any sort of technological beast and frankly, that's not why I'd be buying one in the first place.

As a PC gamer, I'm always going to be able to build a better box for more money, but that's irrelevant because there are only certain games I'm going to playing on PC. A lot of the games I enjoy will never be on Windows, so it wouldn't matter if I was gaming on a hypothetical billion dollar supercomputer that was inexplicably running Windows.

As a console player, I'd rather pay for a $300-400 MSRP box, which I'd gladly replace in 5 years or even less if a replacement became available.

I'm increasingly of the notion that console product cycles should be shorter and made cheaper, not longer by attempting to build "future proof" boxes for more money.

Why? By taking a look at the tablet/smartphone market and the speed at which it's been evolving and hardware is replaced (a yearly basis for major updates, generally 2-3 years for consumer turnover to their next device). Suddenly, grandfathering a proprietary box for 5-7 years seems like a dated and obsolete product model.

Console producing companies should make them cheaper so they can sell them for less or subsidize the lower cost with subscription plans.

I don't really need to pay $500-600 for that.