SvennoJ said:
So basically buying psvr in October is a bad idea, as most likely a 1440p neo psvr headset will follow in a year or 2 to take advantage of the extra resolution the neo can provide. And the original one will be cheap second hand. Certainly not worth 399 now anymore. |
Basically yes and no.
If things pan out how I suspect they will, and we start having hardware reiterations every 3-4yrs that still maintains some level of support for all the previous hardware.... then that creates a new kinda console dynamic.
There are those that will always be willing to cough out money for the cutting edge hardware. Be it that that hardware is $399/$499. They will be willing to do that every 3-4yrs.
There are those that will not and will want you get it when it's comes down in price to $200/$300.
The thing though is that when an upgrade is a certainty at a fixed price point, it makes the waiti g game useless. Cause if you choose to wait, you will wait forever cause there will always be something better coming out.
So what happens will become something like this. we end up with 3 types of people.
A: buy the next best thing every 3-4yrs and trade in/sell the last one they bought for around $200. so technically they are spending only $200 on every new hardware jump. The value of the outgoing hardware holds cause it's still fully capable of playing the games.
B: is more conservative and doesn't care about selling consoles. Buys every other hardware iteration, so every 6 years.
C: is cheap and will only buy when hardware can be gotten for $200 or less. Is most likely going to be buying off those just about to upgrade.
For Sony (and this is where I think they are going with this) 12 years from now we can very well be on PS4ver.D, but to them... it's the same as having an install base of 200M PS4s cause games made are sold to all 200M console holders. I've called this out before. months before any of this PS4k stories started.
