Trust me, I have no envy, as I'm not interested in getting a PS4, or a newer PS34. (If I wanted non-Nintendo modern games, I'd get a good PC.)
whicker wrote:
So new games would still be designed to be tolerable on the slower version console, and then maybe crank things up for the faster version console.
And then they start dropping support...
To me, it just feels like a big scam. There's very little in the way that they can do technology wise in that computing power hasn't increased enough since then to warrant a new machine, especially when it's even difficult to differentiate good PS3 from good PS4 games and that's about an 8 year gap. It's really kind of sad. Since the beginning and to the present, I haven't seen any improvement in graphical quality in the games. Look at early PS3 to late PS3 games (before the PS4 came out). There's sure as hell and improvement there, and even more so with the Xbox 360.
It doesn't (to me) have to do with being the best, like it's some sort of status symbol, it's the fact that say I got a PS4 right before this was announced, I'd be unhappy. I just bought this piece of hardware that's now obsolete, so if I want the cool stuff on this new hardware, I'd have to try and trade in the PS4 (and
maybe just getting 10% back
) and then buying the new system, using way more money that was necessary. I kind of have the same experience in that I got the 3DS when it was $250 (looking back at it, even for 2012 (which wasn't that long ago) I have no clue what would have made it cost so much) and then there was a large price cut, (I think even several) and had I waited a month or whatever, I could have gotten it for a good deal less money. Nintendo thought they were doing you a solid or whatever by giving you some virtual console NES and GBA games but I owned all of them, save about 2. I think it's a cheap way of saying "sorry". They could have given you points toward actually buying something on the online shop.
Case and point, it's a large amount for a small benefit, something that would have been a proportional amount of money for a small benefit if you were upgrading parts in a PC. I've always been tired of hearing the "PC master race" bullcrap, because not everyone has a monster PC, but in the long run, if you can keep the same machine and constantly upgrade it instead of buying the PS4.5 or then the PS4.6 or whatever, you'll save money in the long run and have a more powerful, flexible system. Now that local multiplayer is dead, it seems like the perfect idea. I'm sure most people have their consoles in their bedroom or game room anyway as opposed to the living room.
I will say one point for redemption for Sony, if they do this (if it's even possible). They could create an add on for the PS4 to enhance its capabilities, and that wouldn't be a rip off because you're only paying for what needs to be improved rather than just completely starting over. I think the Xbox One actually has an HDMI in on it, and I could see Microsoft doing something like that here. Doesn't the 32x actually act the same way in that it gets the video from the Genesis somehow? It'd thought it wouldn't work because of analog signal. Of course in this situation, it would be backward in that the attachment is sending data to the console rather than the console sending data to the attachment.