Why PS4 'Neo' is a natural evolution of the console cycle

[barneystinson69]

Homeroids said:

Volterra_90 said:
As long as they don't make a lot of PS4k exclusives, and the PS4 games perform well enough, not like shit, it's fine. But we have to wait and see if that's right. N3DS has one exclusive (XC) a game which runs like shit in the old 3DS version (HW:Legends) and SNES games locked. Okey, it seems that they won't lock anything, but... I prefer to take a wait and see approach about it.

If you read the Giant Bomb article, devs are not allowed to make anything exclusive to the NEO. The way I read this is that the NEO is a bit like comparing say a PC with a GPU upgrade. You get potential benefit for graphic enhancements and framerate. That's it. It is 100% BC to the PS4 and ALL games that come out after the NEO is released must work on the classic PS4. Sony appears to put heavy restrictions on this.

Further, there is no chance of exclusive features on the NEO like "special" VR support or peripherial support, or exclusive DLC in games.

Then what's the point of it? Splitting the developer and userbase just seems stupid, especially with how popular the PS4 is.