Sony is sureleeeee a strange company. I mean I have a launch day PS4, it works fine but sounds like a jet engine on a harrier jump jet and pumps out a lot of heat. Fine and fair enough, but when Sony launched the terabyte model just over a year later then also change the internal components, made it lighter and made it run quieter, thus I feel a bit screwed over now, considering it wasn't even two years between the two models.
And now they are about to launch a more powerful PS4?
They seem to have taken the games console business model everyone buy's a console for and screwed it up and thrown it out the window.... no wonder Jack Tretton left the company.
And then we have the Playstation Plus service, they did and still do on the PS3 offer some great AAA games for free with that service, yet with the PS4 they have only offered indie games, only a splattering handful of AAA games and even some of those have been indie titles!
To give an example of the market place in play here, Microsoft has launched it's Xbox One and left it alone apart from increasing the hard drive space, they are rumoured to be launching a new slim Xbox One this year 3 years after the original model, but it's not expected to be more powerful, just quieter and cooler and smaller.
And they DO offer big name AAA titles alongside indie titles for free to it's Xbox Live GOLD members, it's version of PSN Plus.
Also because of the Xbox One's backwards compatibility the free monthly games the offer that console on it's Gold service can also be played for free on the Xbox One.
Sony's idea of backwards compatibility is to charge you a monthly fee to stream PS3 games.
And you can get the EA access service on it for a cheap yearly price which gives early access to EA games, discounts on digital copy's and extended test play's.
Sony seem hell bent to stay on a collision course to fail? I mean who's going to buy a console where it gets significantly updated every year and a half by the manufacture? People build PC's to do that, they expect to buy a games console and have the same game features for 5 years.
They obviously are selling tons of PS4's, more then Microsoft are selling, but I don't think making a more powerful console with better features and graphics etc 3 year after the last one, and no doubt charging the same or a higher price will guarantee that momentum of sales. And the competition will be launching a smaller cheaper version that's won't be noticeably and significantly more powerful.
