potato_hamster said:
Intrinsic said:
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.
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Under your model, shouldn't the Neo 2 would be introduced at year 6, not year 9, wouldn't it? Why release a new PS4 3 years in and not another one in another 3 years? Why suddenly go back to regular release model after that?
Also, you think developers are going to support three different PS4 skus at once, and 15 years after its release developers will still be supporting the base PS4? Are you out of your mind? That would be like Sony mandating that all new games still support the PS2! Under your model games would be held back even further by older hardware than they are now.
Brilliant. I apologize for giving you too much credit in my first post.
You're idea is completely non-sensical and there is a 0% chance this ever happens.
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I made a slight mistake with my year timing. It was all off cuff so yh.....
You can call my idea nonsensical. Technically it's not even my idea. But the fact is this, it's already happenning. So we'll see.
I'll say again. developers aren't supporting different skus. they are supporting One SKU that just happens to have settings for low, medium, high and ultra settings. Like you know, what's been done in the PC space for like.... forever.
