BioWare Founder on PS4/Xbox One Upgrades: It'd Be a "Gigantic Pain in the Ass"

[Mr Puggsly]

SvennoJ said:

It released in the second year, then Nintendo had to bundle it with games that only work with it to make it sell.
Does that sound appealing for a X1.5/ps4.5. Exclusives bundled with the upgraded console that don't work on the old one?

Why do you think it will be another 8 years? An 11 year console cycle?

They could get a hardware upgrade by resetting profit margins back to zero and spending extra R&D, marketing, storage for different sku's etc. That will slow down this generation and will lead to a longer generation rather than a real upgrade in 2019 or 2020. Instead of getting new graphics engines etc in 4 years, you'll still be getting games tailored to the base model with the extra hardware mostly unused.

All games should work with the old hardware, I think I stressed that point.

I don't think there is any rush to launch new consoles so it'll be a while. Significantly more powerful devices with little impact on price is appealing.

Hundreds of games could take advantage of the new specs, you really don't know. It just depends how easy they are to take advantage of. You created a scenario where they are difficult and expensive to use.