That makes no sense at all for Sony and probably not for Nintendo either. Phone makers continue shurning out phones on a constant basis because that's where they get their money from. Most of them do not run stores where they get revenue, like Apple and Google do. So they have to do this quick cycle to keep the money flowing. Console holders don't get money from selling hardware, they get it from SW sales (and nowadays from subscriptions). There is no advantage whatsoever to trying to sell different devices on short cycles when the money they give you is tiny compared to the real revenue streams; if anything, it causes userbase problems, hurting those very streams. Why do you think last gen lasted so long; necessity. And after coming from the longest gen ever, why would anyone think we'd suddenly arrive at one of the quickest? The same necessities are still there.

MS is the only one that could either benefit or at least not be hurt from doing something like this by unifying Xbox with W10 because reduction in revenue (for example someone buying a game on Steam instead of Xbox/W10 store) could be compensated through other means, like more XBL subscriptions (if online was still paywalled or if non-Xbox users subscribed for the "free games") or an increase availability of Xbox-specific content to traditionally-PC users. Still risky but much more believable. Sony and Nintendo? No.

And the notion that games could potentially scale across these devices is laughable. Of course they could..at an even more horrifying optimisation than they do now. Remember how several games ran late last gen? It'd be even worse this time around. Nobody would get their money's worth; old device users would be gimped and new device users would not see the device's potential properly used either. Nobody benefits from anything.

This is how Sony wants to make money = SW + Vue + Now + PS+ + Accessories

Nowhere does risky HW revisions factor in here, specially when their current HW is selling so well.

First, lately they're pushing 6-8 years. Second, there's a big difference between buying a new console every half decade+ and having to buy updates or newer models for your console throughout that half decade. At that point it'd be silly not to just go full PC, as you can upgrade far more effectively there on your own time.

This is certainly a poor precedent to set... I really thought old add ons like the sega cd/32x or the N64DD showed this sort of thing was a bad idea.

Lets see, how much time is Final Fantasy XV, and The Division ?, i think that Both are atleast in production since 2012 (Final Fantasy XV, was Re-made, is not like FFXIII Versus, was), and both will release in 2016 (FFXV, i hope that will), so is 4 Years of Production, you mean that we need 4 Upgrades, for Each Console, this would mean 12 Versions of Consoles for developers to work, if you take away Nintendo, is 8 Versions, Plus the PC Version, this would raise the Development Cost, and the Time for the Development, and more Machines would come up, Developers would never finish a game if they plan to support them all.

And a Bad idea does not became a good idea if you continue to spread it around, this is nearly the same thing that Microsoft, did at Launch (and look where they are today), and something like the Developer of the Last Devil May Cry, that gave the Middle finger to the Fans of the franchise.

 Actually, Sony and Microsoft set themselves up to break even or make profit from day one with PS4 and XBO. There are also a good amount of gamers that like consoles but do get dored after 3 or 4 years with the old hardware. By bringing out even a mid cycle power bump they could keep these people putting the money in their pockets instead of poking their head into PC gaming for a year or 2 tell the next console comes.

I don't think PC's are going anywhere. There is way to much business in medical, design, engineering, and many other fields that need high end PC's. PCs are a good thing, and I am not against PC. However, I do think that PC's for your average desk job, or mechanic job are over kill, and they are a massive waste for your avaerage Joe as a hom electronic. 

Closed system boxes like PS4 and XBO are ideal for small business and home use, and having the them grow with tech in a very Smartphone like manner, is absolutly the best way to go for consumers, console makers, game developers, and programmers. 

I mean you don't have to look much further than the future plans for XBO to see MS is truning the Xbox into their in house PC. Xbox will be to PC, what Surface is to Laptops in the next 5 years. That is a great future, and one that will start putting Xbox in millions of more homes at a staggering rate.

That's not the way it is going to work. First not every year will see increase to the GPU/CPU. That kind of thing can only happen once there is a shift to a smaller fab process, and once that process is established enough not to cause an issue in the supply chain. Second, devs are never going to optimize to specific platorms agian, that is just the nature of where we are now. No one is optimizing or even coming close to optimizing PS4 and XBO, they are building games to higher level coding instead of utilizing the low level coding that used to be common in consoles. 

Since devs are building games to more common libraries already, building games that scale based on CPU/GPU/RAM is quite simple, and getting those games to run on a scaled platform comes at almost no extra work. So basically devs have to make a Universal Windows App and a Universal PlayStation App, using Sony and Microsoft's API and the game will run on any device. This adds almost not time to development, but puts the game out to a much greater userbase.

I don't think PC's are going anywhere. There is way to much business in medical, design, engineering, and many other fields that need high end PC's. PCs are a good thing, and I am not against PC. However, I do think that PC's for your average desk job, or mechanic job are over kill, and they are a massive waste for your avaerage Joe as a hom electronic. 

Closed system boxes like PS4 and XBO are ideal for small business and home use, and having the them grow with tech in a very Smartphone like manner, is absolutly the best way to go for consumers, console makers, game developers, and programmers. 

I mean you don't have to look much further than the future plans for XBO to see MS is truning the Xbox into their in house PC. Xbox will be to PC, what Surface is to Laptops in the next 5 years. That is a great future, and one that will start putting Xbox in millions of more homes at a staggering rate.

Ruler said: also give me credit for inventing the Term PS4K, seems Sony did a lot of research from my Thread http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=203451&page=1

Nearly everyone here on Brazil called PS4K, because the console launched for 4000RS$, that was over 2200US$ in 2013- early 2014.