Profrektius on 21 March 2016
| potato_hamster said: If you think they can model it off of the cell phone industry, you don't understand that the cell phone industry would be radically different if people had to pay the full price of their cell phones up front rather than spreading it over the life of their cell phone contract. If you think they can make their console a platform, like iOS, please let me know how many of the latest graphics intensive iPhone games run on the 5 year old iPhone 3G. The whole ecosystem is designed around people buying new phones every 2-3 years. |
Most places outside of North America don't use the same kind of phone contracts model, and people buy their phones unsubsidized every 2-3 years. Yet the phones still are very profitable. I don't see a reason consoles couldn't do the same.
