i was away from the thread for a while...i heard juniors cannot recover from bans, is this true?
I do not think it is a good idea for consumers or for game developers really,
ah okay cool. on a side note, may I ask the origin of your tag?
but it is something that the HW makers really want and badly.
hardware makers? so in this case it's amd would gain the most and want to push for this change?
No, not really. Last gen I had a 360, the new generation came out and it was a FRESH start, so I bought the better hardware for gaming in my view, the Ps4. I kept my 360 so I can still play the old games.
...well, that's you. it's not like you are a reflection of the entire consumer base that buys into video game consoles.
i bought a Ps3 last gen because i just prefer the playstation platform. it wasn't about power. the generation before that I was gifted a Ps2. a friend of mine had an xbox, and at the time I was pretty amazed (and jealous) at how great the graphics were on that system. but i was satisfied with what I had.
this gen again I got a Ps4. because again, I just prefer playstation. the fact that it was a little more powerful than the competition and essentially the most powerful console on the market was a perk that came with it and I guess the icing on the cake.
Is that hard to understand why that was bad for Microsoft ?
yeah it is hard to understand, because my understanding is that what was bad for mS was their marketing and the fact that they pushed kinect as a necessity which made the console more expensive. weaker hardware wasn't the biggest detriment, otherwise the Ps2 wouldn't have been so successful against the xbox and gamecube, or the Ps1 against the nintendo 64.
Now. there is new hardwrae coming out in next year, Nx, Scorpeo and Neo. Neo will play Ps4 games just better, it will ahve the same store front, all the digital games I have I can continue to play on teh better hardware.
Sony keeps me in their ecosystem. If it was a clean slate and new hardware altogether, Ps5 games and Xb2 games, I would judge the hardware and might move again.
Forwards and backwards compatibility keeps consumers. Its not a hard concept.
You say that as if consumers are all drones without minds of their own. I am a consumer, and I have a mindset, which is different from yours. It's not a concept at all, it is a matter of opinion. And I don't like that the market is moving in this way.
EDIT: you edited your post so I'll add my response to what you added
with my same friends list and same digital content.., same saves in the cloud, need I go on
so what? the hardware is different, either more powerful or less. that fact remains when you play the games.
Now, from the devloper perspective, they make a game for 60 million Ps4's - thats a nice market. They dont care if they are Ps4 or Neo, they can add some AA and AF for the Neo, same code, same API's. its a nice consumer base.
Now take Ps5, if it comes out and sells only 5 million in first year, who will make games for it ? RISK, every reset is a RISK until you get a large install base. Again its an easy concept.
It's not a risk...it'd only be a risk if video game consoles were a new thing. But they're not. They've been around for like 30 years and the markets had them sell this way and profit is made.
The negative side is the few people who are upset that someone has a better console than them,
even if it is a few people, it is a vast few amount of people. I can't speak for everyone but for myself it's not about someone else having a better console, it's just knowing that there's a better option out there for the same game that I'd have to spend hundreds of dollars on again to attain.
but as everybody is doing it, and PC has always done it,
yep see, PC has always done, and consoles have never done it. and both have been complementary to each other all this time
they will accept it like everything else in life where someone pays more for something better.
I'm not entirely sure if I accept it, I know it is a reality but I'll have to wait for more official press release info before deciding what to do. For now I'm not liking anything at all.
EDIT: you edited your post again
You can google square enix or take 2 or other developers who actually slowed down going for this gen because of the hard reset and their worry about next gen market size. Games being held back is not what I would call 'good'................................
games were being held back last gen too but they still sold tens of millions and hundreds of millions of consoles were sold. we won't and will never live in a perfect world in this corporeality.