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Intrinsic on 24 April 2016
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potato_hamster said:

So under this model if someone buys a PS4 in 2018, 5 years after the original PS4 came out, they should only expect the latest games to support that hardware model for the next year before they can pretty much give up on any major release coming to their console ever again. Meanwhile if someone bought a PS3 in 2011 (5 years after the original PS3) came out, they knew that since the PS4 wasn't announced they would be playing the latest games before Sony even announces a successor, and probably another 2 years after the launch of the PS4.

So, while the PS3 had a proper 10 year lifecycle, and the PS4 has a hard, firm 6 year lifecycle, and you don't see this as a problem to consumers. All of the people that wait for a console to drop under $250 (that is, the majority of console gamers) to buy one will never ever buy a PS4 because the margins on a PS4 will never be so low to be able to reach that price milestone before becoming literally redundant for new games. So, under your model, Sony loses the most profitable years of a console's life and the majority of its customers by keeping margins low and costs high for the duration of a consoles life.

Great job.

What???????

No. 

With this model, even the PS4 can potentially be supported for 15years. Acrross 5 revisions. 

Year 1-3= PS4(100% support)

yr 4-6= PS4(100%) + Neo (75%)

yr 7-9= PS4(75%) + Neo (100%)

yr 10-12 = PS4(50%) + Neo (100%) + Neo2 (75%)

yr 13-15 = PS4 (25%) + Neo (75%) + Neo2 (100%)

yr 16-18= PS4 (0%) + Neo (50%) + neo 2 (100%) + neo 3 (75%).................etc

support means that whatever games are released can still be played on the SKU. The percentage denotes how much priority is given to the SKU. 

If you read the above scenario well, you will notice that every SKU still gets 6 years of primary support at 100%. meaning that for those years it would be treated as the lead PlayStation hardware by Sony. Difference with this system, is that overall each SKU ends up with around 15yrs of active support. so no. what you are saying doesn't apply at all. 

With this system, you can pretty much wait for the 7th year, buy a PS4 if you can still find one, at least you should be able to getbome used for as little as $100/$150 and at that time you will know you still get support for it for at least another 6-8yrs. But you will also know you are buying into older gen tech and performance. At that time if you want the bleeding edge then you can cough out $300 for the Neo which at the time would have been out for 3yrs. 

Whatever you choose to get, you get support for your console for way more than 10yrs that the previous generational system permitted.