| Landguy said: If you hadn't deleted my words above what you chose to quote, you would have noticed that I was just making a "what if" scenario. BUT!!!! I doubt people would buy another console every year to get minor upgrades. They would probably get every other version at most. Just look at the ipads/iphones. They do minor upgrades every year and the same apps run on all of them. But, all of this is really irrellevent, as I doubt M$ or Sony would ever do it. |
Clearly. I was just pointing out the flaws in that hypothetical situation and adding reasons why it wouldn't happen.
Smartphones are as poor an analog to Consoles as PCs are.
Their is some overlap in the media they work with and the architecture but thats about it.
Phones/tablets but more so with phones have such rapid dev cycles because of Economies of Scale and how mainstream they are. Smartphones are regarded as such a neccesity that a vast majority will upgrade when they get the chance, but a lot of people will upgrade at different times.
Even Microsoft, which is only one company would be finacially damaged by the R&D and Manufacturing costs of shipping multiple versions of a console. When I say Version, I don't mean SKU which are essentially the same version. Constantly changing the architecture to upgrade the specs would'nt be cost effective, especially if they want to get to high-tier specs which are completly unrealistic for mass production at a reasonable price.
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