PS4 "FROM DEVELOPERS TO DEVELOPERS"...

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cbarraso09 i get your point. Although i think a lot of the people commenting here completely missed it.

But yeah its a tough decision to make for Sony...do we satisfy devs and go balls to the wall with high end tec. Or do we release something more affordable for consumers. Well, until we get the pricing info we don't really know yet whats Sony's plan. But given the specs i dont think the console will be priced outrageously. I think we looking at prices between 400 and 500. ~400 for base model and 500 for premium model. Which is reasonable i would say. In about a year that price will get cut and probably again in the two years following that. Prices at that point might be at 300 and 400 respectively. Compare that with last gen and i think thats a MUCH better deal for consumers.

But yeah why not make a $300 console from the get go? Hmmm i dunno given sony's position and their lack of innovation when it comes to the so called "gimmicks" or new ways to play, this is their best option. Well i certainly cant think of any other approach to a new console for Sony...and it seems that the team behind ps4 couldn't either. Successful implementation of innovation is truly difficult....you cant just innovate and expect things to go well because you doing things differently. Look at the situation Nintendo find themselves in now. They in no mans land. Not appealing to the Casuals or the broader "hardcore".

Sony said screw that risk, we got a good thing going with the PS3 and the gamer centric focus. Why not satisfy devs on the hardware side and take a simple approach.

I also think sony and AMD have managed wonderful things with the tec inside of the PS4 fitting 18 GCN cores in an APU solution is amazing. And i think to a point they have innovated with the hardware. So yeah there has to be a compromise somewhere and i think sony has taken the right approach for them. I also dont think they've completely ignored the gamer...its actually quite the opposite. And again we dont know price but all signs point to a reasonable one.