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

[Mr Puggsly]

potato_hamster said:

My apologies, the latest number that i was citing for 148K in sales was just North America. My bad there.

Also, my bad for assuming you wanted a new console every 2-3 years, that's what most people who want a PS4.5 style console are pushing for, and I made a bad assumption.

So you want an upraded console every 5 years when the trend has been to release a brand new console every 4-6 years as it is? You do realize that the PS4 and X1 have only been out for less than 2.5 years right? So you want is for Sony to do things like instead of releaing the PS5, just create a PS4.5? Is that what you're pushing for? If so, why not just push for a PS5 with backwards compatibility? Wouldn't that do more or less the same thing since for the first 2 years of a console's release developers tend to support the previous platform as well? I mean we've only recently reached the point where most AAA multi-platform games are no longer supporting the PS3 and X360.

So how do you imagine this working? Sony releasing the PS4.5 around Novemeber 2018, and then turning around and releasing the PS5 around November 2019 or 2020? Where/when does the PS5 come into play?

Let me just put it this way, if MS or Sony really wan to push a 8-9 console generation. An upgrade somewhere in the middle would be great. But if the plan is only 5-6 years, maybe a new console with BC makes sense.

Assuming they stick with the same arcitecture then a new console with full BC should be easy.