wow! that's the most interesting news i've read in months. If this should be true... for a while now i've been thinking that like the world can eat up 3 consoles it probably can 4, and by that i mean if the 4th is specifically targeted at the huge russia/asia region... It would have the great advantage of a fixed hardware pc (the reason i moved to consoles is control + not having to constantly upgrade and/or play at low settings/tweak)
However a big problem would be what @welshbloke pointed out Sony/Ms lose big time to have the console prices at the begining of the lifetime. This 'could' be avoided if they keep rereleasing the console every 3 years thus making it less cutting edge expensive... but not only is that a minus but the bigger problem i see: unless they make it *very* easy i don't see how they're going to convince big developers to support it. That becomes an even bigger problem considering they're just starting up and will have low install bases and even lower if they have like I said shorter lifecycles... this could take 5-10 years to start up even if they start it now and are willing to do it at a bit of loss
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for a while now i've been thinking that like the world can eat up 3 consoles it probably can 4, and by that i mean if the 4th is specifically targeted at the huge russia/asia region...
It would have the great advantage of a fixed hardware pc (the reason i moved to consoles is control + not having to constantly upgrade and/or play at low settings/tweak)
However a big problem would be what @welshbloke pointed out Sony/Ms lose big time to have the console prices at the begining of the lifetime. This 'could' be avoided if they keep rereleasing the console every 3 years thus making it less cutting edge expensive... but not only is that a minus but the bigger problem i see: unless they make it *very* easy i don't see how they're going to convince big developers to support it. That becomes an even bigger problem considering they're just starting up and will have low install bases and even lower if they have like I said shorter lifecycles... this could take 5-10 years to start up even if they start it now and are willing to do it at a bit of loss