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Lawlight on 21 August 2018
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Soundwave said:
Lawlight said:

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The whole "we make only one system and that's it barring just minor changes for 5-6 years" is outdated 1980s/1990s thinking today.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. 

You know how I know that the 1 hardware per generation is still valid and not outdated? Because the PS4 is still cruising. It works for phones because it gets subsidised with phone plans. And they don’t have to maintain compatibility like consoles do. Have a console manufacturer try and do that with a console and see how that works out. Nintendo do it because they have no choice as they would sell way less hardware without revisions.

The 3DS revisions play games that the original 3DS cannot. That’s a major difference compared to the PS4 Pro and base PS4.