| ExplodingBlock said:
Guess it is a thing of the past :/ |
Really its a terrible decision, for everyone involved.
PS3 hardware in the PS4 which is the cheapest route outside of streaming will cost at least 200$.
Sony can take the loss and accumulate about 2 billion in losses from this alone i.e 8.4 mill * 200 = 1.6 billion.
Sell the PS4 at 600$, get destroyed by the competition in exactly the same way as the PS3, and consumers have to pay more for the system.
Or they can weaken the PS4 by using the cell in it, effectively making a console that cost 200$ that would probably be at parity with Wii U in performance at best, much below it at worse. I.E a 400$ console, competing with a much more powerful 500$ console and an at parity 300$ console.
Every scenario is bad, its really an issue of purposely using exotic architectures in the past.
In other words, Backwards compatibility would have made the PS4 an instant flop.
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