What if the 9th gen launched with Standard and Premium hardware!

[VAMatt]

DonFerrari said:

StuOhQ said:
I think hardware makers know there is a huge double-dip market when they do upgrades. They really don't want to kill sales by getting everything out of the gate at launch. They would essentially remove all of the second sales from premium buyers at no real gain to them. Plus, half of the reason they do the upgrades is because tech become cheaper as the generations wear on.

HW makers doesn't make money out of the HW (at least Sony and MS, which are the focus here)

VAMatt said:

How does that impact this discussion?  Nobody is talking about eliminating lower-priced Hardware.

You said you don't have numbers, I gave then to you. You said market wanted upgrades instead of multi release (for this one you really wouldn't know since no one ever done it, although customer showed to prefer the better HW on PS4 together with the best price, while on previous gen they preferred the lower price). So how does this no impact the discussion?

Sales of the mid-gen upgrades are strong, relative to expectations.  That means that consumers want those items, at least enough to satisfy the hardware companies.  That's basically the definition of demand justifying supply.