| Lawlight said: That'll be stupid. People buy consoles because they don't need to worry about upgrades. |
Not really. People buy consoles so they don't have to worry about compatibility, because overall accessibility (inclduing price of harware), because they use their PCs ( most specifically laptops since we're in 2016) for most things and games are the least important of the bunch. Also because consoles are just more social/casual, living room friendly devices with huge brand power behind them. Optional upgrades have always been around in the console space, just not usually relating to graphics/performance.
"Upgrades" only become a problem when hardware is not backwards compatible. A time will come when a new games aren't compatible with an older models, but thats just a typical console cycle for you. Similarly there comes a point where old Iphones (iPhone 4 and below) stop being compatible with newer Operating systems and apps. Only on videogame forums are casual consumers seen as too dense to figure out that they need to upate their 6 year old device in order to experience new stuff.
