NeoRatt said:
The car analogy is perfect... Essentially, you are buying something without knowing what quality of product will come later. I wasn't trying to match engines to CPU...
PS2 sold well at the start and throughout its generation. I don't think it was over hyped as it brought people a gaming device with a DVD drive on day one to the table and people at the time were wanting DVD drives for movies... Unlike the PS3 that brought an overpriced gaming device and blu-ray player when people hadn't decided which HD standard they wanted yet.
PS4 has brought absolutely nothing to the table in its first year... It is just bigger and faster of all the same...
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The car analogy was 100% wrong. Both the car and PS4 are machines. However, you're comparing a frame of one to the entire product of another. It's a total non sequitor. If you want to compare the car frame to the PS4, compare it to the PS4's plastic case. When I buy a car, I buy a car. I don't get the frame. I get the engine, tires, brakes, trunk, and all that jazz. Same with the PS4. I buy a PS4, I don't just get a plastic case. I get the CPU/GPU, RAM, Blu-Ray drive, and other features. I can look online to see the specs of both a car and the PS4, too. Looking up the car's horsepower is like looking up how many teraflops the PS4 has. Heck, even demoing is similar. I can go to a dealership to test drive a car I'm interested in just like how I can check out the PS4 at a demo station in Gamestop.
People buy cars as a long term investment, too. They buy certain cars over another because they are certain that this certain car is more reliable, faster, has better safety, and better warranty. The dealership that sells this car probably does a better job keeping the car fine-tuned than other dealerships. Same with the PS4. People buy the PS4 because it's more powerful, has better online and online value, has better features (e.g. share button), a lot more games, and a lot more diversity in those game. This is a better and more correct analogy.