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Soundwave on 21 August 2018
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Lawlight said:
Soundwave said:

Sony and MS are both getting boosts from have two SKUs and none of that "cosmetic upgrade only" bullshit, PS4 Pro and XBX1 are both huge upgrades and are buoying the "senior" years of these consoles. It's basically a sales fountain of youth. 

Mid-gen refreshes are the way of the future, Nintendo likely will follow suit with Switch, DSi and New 3DS already were going in that direction.

The PS4 Pro plays 0 game that the base PS4 cannot play, unlike the 3DS. You say mid-gen refresh is the future - Nintendo has been doing that for generations now and by releasing systems with exclusives as well. And of course Nintendo will do that with the Switch, how else would they prolong the life of the system? It’s what they’ve been doing for a long time now. The other thing is that the PS4 Pro is still way above mass market price and makes up a fraction of the PS4 sales and is not intended as a replacement for the regular PS4.

More product lines is simply going to become the norm. Apple would sell far less iPhones if they only had one damn iPhone. Same with Samsung and so on. 

The whole "we make only one system and that's it barring just minor changes for 5-6 years" is outdated 1980s/1990s thinking today. Every hardware line is going to embrace multiple product SKUs with differing specs, in large extremes at that. Switch Pro is coming. 

PS4 Pro makes Sony more money than the regular PS4, those higher price points are more lucrative and reap console makers more money, that is probably true of XBox One X too. You can keep the premium price but as time goes on the price of those components drops, so you eventually you start making real nice money from that high end model. 

Switch Pro will be different from the DSi and New 3DS IMO which were minor upgrades, I think you will see a full on 2x-3x performance increase all across the board, just like PS4 Pro and XBox One X. 

Last edited by Soundwave - on 21 August 2018