Intrinsic said:
Yes that would be a dumb idea. Good thing thats not whats happenning. This is all sounding more and more like people just refusing to look at the facts simply cause they don't like the "idea" of something. Yet in so doong they are making their assumptions from a position of stubborn ignorance. You and many others talk as if things like the Neo/Scorpio are here to replace everything. They aren't. they are here to give another option. Albeit a more expensive one. By definition, the phrase prohibitively expensive means you are walking off customers due to price. That's only true if come the Neo/scorpio launch you simply can't just walk into a store and walk out with a PS4/XB1s respectively. Look at it this way. If you want a more powerful version of the PS4/XB1 then you pay more for it. If you want 4k you pay more for it. If you can't afford to pay more for it then you probably also can't afford to buy a 4k tv anyways and still use a 1080p TV and in that case, the cheaper 1080p version of those consoles are still there sitting on shelves for you to buy. Simple as that. It's like going into buy a TV. they all will play Suicide squad just the same. The exact same movie. However, you have a choice of paying $400 for a 1080p Tv or $1000 for a 4k tv. Sony can afford to charge more for 4k cause they aren't planning to nor do they expect to sell that box to everyone. But they know there are those that want that box to go with their 4k TVs. By the time 4k TVs become as accessible as 1080p sets are, those consoles would also be cheaper. Please, what exactly is wrong with all of this? |
This isn't the same way as other markets. Tell me a market where you purchase a machine with content that need 3-4 years of development cycle, exclusively for some plataforms, and that have yearly updates ? None.
Your machine would become useless before the development of the game is finished, this isn't fair for the consumer this shift of focus. Isn't like movies or any other kind of midia where there is only a image that only need to be polished, there are several elements in a game that depend on the power of the console and how the developer made the game for that console. If there is just 1 console, they won't have other option, the version will focus on that console, but, if every company have multiple consoles, it will be harder for the developers to work.
