potato_hamster said:
AnthonyW86 said:
You are forgetting the people who will upgrade to PS4K, they will sell their current PS4 off to other people. So every single PS4K sold increases the install base(regardless of already owning a PS4 or not), aside from sales of the original PS4 system wich will likely go down to $299.
This is a mid-gen upgrade, so the PS4 will get software support for years. That means that every PS4 out there is part of the active user base, unlike many PS3's collecting dust shortly after PS4 released. PS4 and PS4K add together to create one large install base. And not just for games, also for PS Plus.
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Or they keep their existing PS4 and just buy a new PS4K.
It's still irrelevant, you haven't tied how the PS4K increases the PS4 userbase even larger than the PS4 would have without it. You can't just simply look at the PS4K numbers sold and think "well there's your answer" because 90-95% of them might have bought or kept their PS4 otherwise, or the people that bought thier used PS4 planned on buying a PS4 anyways and was just waiting for another price drop.
Most third party developers are going to look at the PS4K, and just as they decided with the Sega CD, Sega 32x, N64 expansion pak, PSP hardware revisions, and New 3DS, they're going to think "not worth it", and just make PS4 games.
This is a waste of time and money for everyone involved. This is so astroundingly dumb. I really thought Sony wasn't that stupid.
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More likely PS4.5 becomes the lead PS model from here on out. Given a choice between a 1.8 TFLOP console at $299 versus a 4+ TFLOP console at $399 ... I think most consumers going forward will choose the 4TFLOP one.
The N64 RAM pak actually had fairly decent support, 32X and Sega CD sold very poorly.
