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MDMAlliance on 14 March 2015
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Kerotan said:
MDMAlliance said:


This isn't really how it works.  No console manufacturer ACTUALLY gives you the best they can to begin with.  Revisions like with the 3DS have more to do with price and feedback.  Nintendo is also not the only one that does redesigns.  Look at the PSP, and the PS Vita even.


I'd argue the ps4 couldn't have been much better to begin with.  The handheld revisions seem to get way more people rebuying than consoles do when they get a revision. 

The PS4 could have been stronger.  It's not impossible for Sony to put more hardware upgrades into the system, but they decided against it in the interest of maintaining lower manufacturing costs and lower sale price.  To think that the PS4 COULDN'T have been better is ignorant at best.  

The handheld revisions ARE in order to get more people to buy the system, including those who will rebuy.  HOWEVER, claiming they could have done it from the beginning and saying they didn't IN ORDER to do this kind of shows that you don't understand how the decisions are made for hardware.  If you want to talk about why the 3DS only had one analog stick, look at the size of the original 3DS.  Some can argue that you could have fit another on there, or made it into the c-stick it is now, but there are quite a few complications that go along with that.  Ergonomics is likely the main reason for not implementing one.  The New 3DS is slightly larger than the regular 3DS by the way (possibly due to the addition of the c-stick). 
As technology gets better and cheaper, new possibilties come up.  That's where the revisions come in.