KBG29 said:
Actually, Sony and Microsoft set themselves up to break even or make profit from day one with PS4 and XBO. There are also a good amount of gamers that like consoles but do get dored after 3 or 4 years with the old hardware. By bringing out even a mid cycle power bump they could keep these people putting the money in their pockets instead of poking their head into PC gaming for a year or 2 tell the next console comes.
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Again. no. That's wrong. They don't break even on day 1. The price of the console covers just the individual console but not the more significant costs like marketing or development of games/hardware.
People don't become bored from the hardware. It's the lack of game support some consoles have in their later years that's the cause of boredom in a gen. Releasing new hardware or upgrading hardware won't fix that. More games being made for that part of the gen would fix it. Releasing more games also puts more money in their pockets because of software sales and at their point everything they're doing turns a profit. Releasing an upgraded console mid-gen is completely asinine for any of the big three because they would lose any profit because of development costs of upgraded HW.
