Rumor: New PS4k/PS4.5 leak via NeoGAF - GPU twice as powerful, dev kits already in developers' hands, $399-$499

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ZahaDoom said:

Imnus said:

I'm the opposite I would love a $1200 console, but since I'm realistic and know that most people won't buy a console that expensive, I would like 2 skus sharing the same architecture so development for both is easy, one at $400 and the other at $1200, 3 times as fast/powerful with both an HDD and an SSD, also both should be available at launch.

I just don't really enjoy playing on PC, there's just too many annoyances, plus the fact I already spend too much time on my PC for work. Consoles are just more practical for gaming IMO.

What I don't like about this rumour is the 2X part, that's too little to even bother doing this.

 Poor man's Console and a Rich man's? Again a console like thus would never get off the ground, there's already an environment like that it's the PC market. 

 A $300-$400 , one spec for all, level playing field, computer, otherwise known as a "console", that people can buy on a 5-6-7 year cycle and know that money gets them as cheap as possible to a leading edge in gaming for a few years with out spending anymore to upgrade, is the lifeblood of the console industry.

 I think a lot people would reject a two tiered console enviroment, and just get into PC gaming then. 

I mean you guys are talking about dismantling the only thing that distinguishes a console from a pc. 

PC gaming is a much different beast than console gaming though. On console everything just works. Every game is built to work in the framework of PSN or XBL. Everything on the consoles in unified, simple, and easy to understand. The process for updates in every aspect is miles easier than on PC.

The PC market is a complete mess right now. Steam brought things together for a few years,  but then other publishers saw what they were doing and decided that they should just do it for themselves. Now you have acoounts galore on PC, and every publishers has its own exclusive store. Along with those stores are propiatory network features and applications that have to be up to date to run their games. This means constant updates, and constant road blocks to playing. This experience is fine for people that put gaming first, but it does not work for those that just want the best expereince, and want it ready to go the handful of times they sit down and play each month. 

This is why this business model of scaleable consoles is going to take over. They are very cheap, very quite, very powerful, and very simple, and they are quickly moving to offering everything that PC does. They are the smartphones of the home computer market. They offer everyday needs like television, video streaming services, and web browsing. They offer occasional needs like Blu-ray playback, and gaming. Plus they offer productivity features like MS office. Consoles a quick and ready to go at all times, and that is just something PC can not achieve with the open enviornment, and that is why Microsoft built a console, and it is why they are turning Xbox One into a full on Windows 10 machine, within a controlled enviornment.