Would you buy a 9th or a 9.5th gen console???

[Scisca]

sergiodaly said:

Scisca said:
That would be awesome for consumers, but probably bad for the manufacturers. People would have a choice, but then again when buying the cheaper version would feel that they are buying something worse, the inferior product. That would probably cause many people to wait with their purchase till a significant price cut to get the better version. I know that's what I'd do

Still, it would be a great idea to have the same game (from the very same disc) running on two different versions of the hardware with different performance, yet sharing multiplayer, etc. This would be a great way to extend the time of a generation. In fact, Sony and MS could do that even this gen. Instead of releasing a simple Slim, make a Slim and a PS4+/Xbone+. I would be all for it, if it finally gave us 1080p/60fps.

Still, I think from the business perspective it's best not to confuse the consumer and keep only one version of hardware. Sadly.

Do you think it will confuse? They could be the same but one bigger than the other, like iphone 6 and 6+ to make things more understandable with visual aid, and better thermal design. 

Maybe you're right. Well, I'm all for it. I'd welcome a PS4+ with my arms wide open Obviously, this premium would have to be sold at a profit from day 1 to make any sense for the manufacturers, that goes without saying. To allow gamers to get the same games with higher resolution, better textures and better framerate - would be awesome. We had add-ons in the past, maybe a console+ would be the new thing?

Nothing else apart from performance and graphics can be different of course, this is supposed to be the same console, share the online enviroment, etc. Just like two different PCs running the same game or similar to N3DS giving a small boost in graphics to 3DS compatible games. Same game, different graphics. I like this idea, especially if they could allow us the 1080p/60fps for $449-499 in a year or so. I think many people would go for it. The increase in price shouldn't really be that big at this point. Stuff gets cheaper over time, you can get much better specs for the same price after two years and these consoles shouldn't be designed to chase the 4k pipedream, but fullfill what we were hoping to get this gen.

PS4 Slim and PS4+ would be an awesome idea.