A203D said:
This is going to be the longest generation and it will be a 'seige' so to speak. Nintendo is perhaps the best performing hardware on the market right now, alongside being the best competitive in pricing. If I was on the board of Sony or Microsoft the aim of the game for me would be to force Nintendo into a protracted cycle where their hardware becomes obsolete, which happened to Nintendo in previous cycles. |
Are you saying you want this gen to be really long or you just think it will be?
To me, if Sony (MS seems to be going out of their way to be quite friendly to Nin) wanted to make things harder on Nin in terms of (Switch 2) hardware, then they should take any money that would be going into Pro and invest it into Slim. Even if that meant subsidizing Slim (more) to make it even cheaper, assuming they could keep up with the demand.
Then Sony should launch PS6 in 2026, again, using practically the newest most advanced tech like the PS5 did. By extending this gen, Sony isn't going to want to make Pro any more than $500-$600 because that makes the next gen step to PS6 look that much weaker, unless they wait until like 2030. If Sony planned on an 8 year gen, then PS5 Pro has to follow a similar path like PS4 Pro did, which basically just extends the same or similar tech for longer, which would help Nin with their third party (Switch 2) lineup.