| binary solo said: Why does Nintendo get a free pass with mid-gen hardware upgrades on handhelds that makes early gen units essentially obsolete for most future game releases, when if this was done with any home console the company would be eviscerated by the public and media? And if Sony tried it with PSP they would have been pilloried too. surely the point of a console generation is that units bought on day one of the generation will be able to play last game released. |
I think the upgrade thing for handhelds is different because these things are cheap. You can buy two 3DS systems for the price of one PS4. Also, if you buy an original 3DS, the games that come out for the new 3DS will (for the most part) play the same. If newer games were ONLY playable on the new system? Then you'd see the backlash.
