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naruball said:

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Your attempt to try to turn this into a console war is misguided and unnecessary. 

None of the 8th gen systems deserve to be selling as the PS4 is. Wii U deservedly suffered in its first year due to a lack of games. Now PS4 is committing the same sin, but it somehow gets a free pass cos it's the "cool" console. This tells the industry, "hey, don't bother actually giving us games, just give us an expensive box that plays PS3 games with a marginally cleaner picture and we'll be happy". I for one demand more than that.

I have to disagree. What the the success of the ps4 is telling the industry is:

1. Talk to third parties before making a console

2. Find a good balance between respectable hardware and price.

3. Support your latest console until the end of its cycle

4. Don't take anti-consumer measures

5. Don't force peripherals/expensive media on gamers.

It seems a bit anti-consumer to me to let people run out and get TLOU on PS3 and not tell them it's coming to PS4 a year later. That's tricking people into double dipping to get more cash out of them.