| Arkaign said: snip |
The only discrepancy I see here is that unless something has changed internally, there was a pretty big leak from a bish-verified GAF insider (and I believe Kotaku also did an article as well from a separate source), and they said that the NEO is expected to be $100 more, and possibly $200 more if they do the possible CPU upgrade which was still undecided at the time. This is what caused such an outcry; the price remains the same and people view it as a slim, the price goes up, people feel segregated and as if they have an inferior box and as if the console market is undergoing such rapid changes that they aren't comfortable with.
The fact that Sony's handling of this has been rather muted makes me think this is not a calculated move, but rather a reactionary one to the changes at AMD regarding the nodes. However, now that Xbox is following suit (for different reasons imo), I think it becomes a sort of console power arms race where consumers lose, and it may force Sony's hand into continuing with this iterative console nonsense which I am not a fan of at all.
Will have to wait and see how things turn out, but I think all this hardware nonsense when the software output this gen has been quite underwhelming will cause many console owners to become disgruntled and seek alternatives. However, I think this is very dependent on how Sony (and MS) go about introducing these products to the market; it is a very delicate process.
