@elessarGObonzo: I know you're on crack when you propagate that my 4K TV is shit compared your 27" 1440p crap. 4K is 4K, son. Don't matter if I'm playing 720, 1080 game on it, 4K makes everything look better, ever heard of upconverting? Just cause you got 4K don't mean you need every game running native at 4K, even 1080 looks sweet when running on a 4K TV. So don't be BSing me, kid.
I'm a piece of shit, cause I like to save my money and I'm not afraid to admit it. If you call being smart a piece of shit, yeah, that's how I can afford my sweet sweet 4K TV. From not spending money on anything that I can get for FREE.
So, explain to me Einstein. Why on Gods green Earth would I pay 60 bucks a game and another 10 bucks a month for PS Plus to play games on an multi-tiered performance system when I can play the same games for FREE without any PS Plus fees on the same multi-tiered PC?
The ONLY, and I repeat ONLY reason I play games on console is due to the unified performance system, you start introducing 2 tiers of games a nerfed version and a elite version, and guess what I'll save my 60 bucks and my 10 a month fee and use that towards my pimped out PC.
You're crazy if you think I'm gonna pay to play nerfed games on Sony's expensive Plus servers when the alternative is FREE.
You can be a saint all you want, but I'm loyal to no one, but my money.
@elessarGObonzo: I don't know what you are talking about.
By releasing two SKUs for PS4 you essentially negate the one thing that separates consoles from PC in terms of gaming, which is that all console games run the same across the board.
As soon as you introduce different SKUs with different Specs you make console gaming the same as PC gaming, in which case its much easier and much more cost efficient to just get a gaming PC and steal all your games via piracy.
If there is nothing separating console gaming from PC gaming, then PC wins everytime because PC gaming is FREE due piracy.
The only way to compete against FREE games is by making consoles unified, so that everyone gets the exact same experience out of every game released. That was how console gaming was able to get such huge market shares to begin with,
What Sony suggests is to make console gaming tiered depending on system specs, sorry but if you do that, there is no reason for me to even stay in console gaming, when I can get all my PC games for FREE. The only reason I play console games is because I know that I will get a unified experience on every single game, that's the only reason. If I wanted a multi-tiered experience depending system specs, I'd be getting all my game for FREE on PC, why spend my hard earned money?
@Zacmaccraken: That's why you don't hire Japanese execs for your company. They always fuckup on interviews. Keep your Japanese CEOs in the board room where they belong and hire a savvy western CEO to handle the public relations.
The Japanese will never learn. As soon as you let a Japanese Exec speak to the press all hell breaks lose, cause they always say shit that hurts the company.
I blame it the Japanese lack of EQ over IQ. They really gotta hide their execs from the press.
@justerthought: It would make consoles the same as PCs, and kill the console industry if they released PS4.5.
You remove unified performance on consoles you remove all need for consoles. Just get a PC instead and pirate everything for free. What would be the difference?
Bad idea. Consoles are supposed to have a unified performance standard no game should ever look better on one system over another in the same generation.
That's the whole point of consoles, as soon as you start to create performance gaps between consoles in the same family you lose userbase, because you essentially become a PC, so why would people not just use a PC and steal the games for free.
Consoles have dominated due to one reason, unified performance. You remove unified performance and its all over.
Why would anyone buy a game on a console when they can just pirate it for free on PC? The reason has always been console's unified performance. You remove that and consoles become pointless.
P.S Great job on Sony's exec, he just killed half their holiday sales, now people are gonna hold off on getting a PS4. Dumb move Sony.
@donald10: Umm, no. Consoles are supposed to have a unified performance standard no game should ever look better on one system over another in the same generation.
That's the whole point of consoles, as soon as you start to create performance gaps between consoles in the same family you lose userbase, because you essentially become a PC, so why would people not just use a PC and steal the games for free.
Consoles have dominated due to one reason, unified performance. You remove unified performance and its all over.
PS. MS XB1 1TB model is the same as the other models in terms of performance so I don't know what you are talking about.
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