| tsogud said: No mid-gen upgrade to date has fractured their userbase with exclusives, so your irrational fear of that happening holds no water. And I'll include New 3ds in that bunch even though it wasn't much of a leap in power to the OG model comparatively to other mid-gen upgrades to their OG models. |
No modern one did, that's true. But historically, that's much less true.
Remember the Atari 5200? The SupergGrafx? The 32X? Those were all upgrades where the base console (So the Atari 2600, the TurboGrafX 16 and the Megadrive/Genesis) could not play those games for the upgraded hardware. Heck, even Nintendo consoles in Japan with the Disc Drive could apply here to some degree. However, they did not get the chance to split the userbase by much because all of them flopped.
The Nintendo eShop rating Thread: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=237454 List as Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aW2hXQT1TheElVS7z-F3pP-7nbqdrDqWNTxl6JoJWBY/edit?usp=sharing
The Steam/GOG key gifting thread: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/242024/the-steamgog-key-gifting-thread/1/
Free Pc Games thread: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/248138/free-pc-games/1/
