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greenmedic88 on 22 April 2016
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potato_hamster said:
greenmedic88 said:
I want to say that the market for PS4 Neo will likely be smaller than that of the PS4 primarily because it really only makes sense to pay the premium for Neo if the user owns or is about purchase a 4K display or is planning on buying PS VR.

This still represents a minority of the PS4 market.

Of course this is assuming SCE maintains sales of the PS4 as a $299 option compared to the $399 PS4 Neo.

I can't see SCE effectively raising the price of the PS4 by only offering a $399 upgraded option, seeing as how the MSRP bar has already been lowered, but we'll see.

Tablet and smart phone producers sell updated products with updated specs and features that run the same software as their predecessors, yet cost the same as when said predecessors were new to market.

The PC market in general works on the same principle where the same money over the next generation of parts buys better performance for the same price (looking at CPUs and video cards in particular).

It would be interesting to see if that's the business model SCE wants to push.

But cell phones are rendered effectively redundant for playing the latest games and apps within 3 years. That's a main reason why cell phones have the turnover rate they do - that and subsidized contracts. Is that something you want for consoles?

I haven't run into problems with a 2012 iPad with regards to incompatible software or games; that's actually one of the problems I suspect Apple has been having with getting users to automatically upgrade them. That wasn't subsidized.

If I recall, MS already dipped their foot into the subsidized console business model with attached services with the XB360. Given that they didn't do the same with the XBO says that A) it wasn't a good deal for consumers. B) it didn't benefit MS to make that option available for consumers either.

Naturally, I don't see consoles as something to be replaced every other year, although I do tend to buy a console once a year due to supporting multiple platforms and hardware redesigns, which still isn't the same thing as buying a new console for the same platform every other year. 

Again, it only becomes a problem if a 3 year old console (I'd even argue 4 year old) is no longer supported by the manufacturer or third parties in terms of software. This is not the case with the PS4 update; all PS4 games will play on the PS4. Until I see examples proving otherwise, my opinion on this is not going to change.