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

[Mr Puggsly]

potato_hamster said:

Mr Puggsly said:

I don't think the New 3DS reception is poor. But I guess we hear what we want to hear. I mean Xenoblade sold considerably better than you presumed. I'm sure people playing Hyrule Warriors and Monster Hunter 4 prefer playing it on New 3DS specs as well.

You speak solely on the business end. However, we are both consumers and I'm saying what I would like as a consumer. A more powerful GPU for more polished games isn't unrealistic request in a future model.

So your idea of good reception is that the people that bought it used it as intended in some cases. Sure people would prefer playing Hyrule Warriors on the new 3DS. That doesn't mean they're happy with their purchase if that's the only game in their library they bought in the last two years that actually uses the hardware. I mean I purchased a PS Tv for $12 new and it worked pretty well for the two games I own that worked on it, but i still think I overpayed by spending $12 on it. The interface is borderline unusable and PS Vita apps don't work on it for literally no reason.  So great, it plays some PS Vita games, but it was not positively recieved by me, or pretty much anyone else. That's why I got the PS TV for 85% off in the first place.

You also think the 3DS reception was positive because Xenoblade Chronicles sales were actually just sort of okay, but not good, instead of horrendously bad. 500K sales on a platform that has over 10 million in sales when games like Mario Maker and Splatoon are each selling 7-8 times that amount on a similar install base is not good.

It's fine and dandy to want to own something, and it's fine dandy to think your request is reasonable because you don't understand what it takes to actually make that request a reality. An upgradable console might seem reasonable to you, but I have demonstrated that from the business and developer perspective that your expectation actually is not reasonable. And you just keep saying "well i still want it, so they should still do it".

This is utterly pointless.

Well a benefit X1 and PS4 have that 3DS lack is lots of notable support. Not even OG 3DS has a lot of support. So if you're gonna complain about lack of games that has less to do with New 3DS and more to do with 3DS support in general. As I pointed out before, not a lot of games take advantage of OG 3DS as is.

For a port and the genre, I think Xenoblade did pretty good. Not really fair to compare a game like that to major IPs like Mario Maker and Splatoon. Its not like the original release of Xenoblade did amazing numbers on a large userbase.

Calm down, you're exagerating how big my request is. And I'm only making that request if this is another long generation. Again, you speak as a business man but you're just a consumer.