Why is there no such thing as luxury gaming?

[KBG29]

VGPolyglot said:

KBG29 said:

This would be for the people that have $20K or more home theaters. The art is already created for much higher resolutions and textures than even the best PC can handle. 

Just like any high end electronic, it would just be for the people willing to pay unreasonable prices for the absolute best quality experience possible on current technology. It is a small market, but it is the most profitable segment in electronics.

How? It'd be enormously expensive to make games on the exteme end, with a much more limited market.

There would be very little additional cost in game development. The games would be identical to the base model consoles, but they would be able to run at higher resolution and higher frame rates, with better post processing effects.

Games are built with much higher quality assets and effects than we see in the end game. The develolers spend a lot of time tuning back effects to meet performance requirements. With a luxury level console, it would have the brute force to produce results much closer to the reference material, and perform much higher levels of post.

On the Hardware side, they can sell at a massive profit per unit, just like we see with other premium devices. With everything being built on standard hardware, the R&D cost would be extreamly low. It is basically just a beefier version of whaf is already available, just at lower yeilds, which drives up the cost.