BraLoD said:
thismeintiel said:
While I agree it won't match the PS2. Sony has done a couple of smart things to help its legs. For one, by using less custom chips, the price of the PS4 will be able to drop more in line with the PS2. The PS3 didn't drop to $249 til it's 5th year on the market. PS4 will hit that this year, its 4th. He'll, it may even see a cut to $199. A cut that happened so late in the PS3's lifespan, it made little difference. That $199 price came along with the launch of the PS4. When the PS5 comes, the PS4 will most likely be $149, with an actual chance Sony can get it down to $99-$129. That'll do wonders for its legs.
Then, you have the Pro, which uses the same chips as the PS4, only overclocked and doubled up on the GPU. It's going to be enhancing PS4 games til they stop making them and will make it cheaper to make for Sony, allowing for faster price cuts. This year it will definitely be dropping to $349, but there is a possibility Sony gets aggressive and launches a Pro Slim for $299. If so, we're going to see a nice boost in its sales for the coming months. And I imagine once that thing hits $199, it will be making up ~40% of the PS4's sales.
Like I said, I don't expect the PS4 to beat the PS2, but I don't think we need to worry about its legs. Even after the arrival of the PS5. There's going to be a $250-$300 price gap between the two. And probably a $150-$200 gap between it and the Pro.
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I'm not worried about the PS4 lags, PlayStation and lags are basically a given, I'm just poiting him that the PS4 will not have the same lags as the PS2 very likely, which was what the post he quoted was saying.
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Is it hip to say lags, now? 
Anyway, I'm just being on the safe side and saying it won't match the PS2. I'm still thinking 115M-125M. But, who knows. This is the first time we have had a mid-gen upgrade of this kind. It may help sustain sales more than we think when it's $249 when the PS5 launches and most games are cross-gen for the first year or two.
