Also, no need for new hardware. It was frustrating to buy 4 pro controllers for Wii U, only to need to buy a whole new chunk for the Switch.

They'll just keep updating, and Sony will too. And in the long run, that will probably be for the best. We don't need to be spending $200 to get enough controllers for 4 players every time a new console comes.

Nintendo Switch. Honestly spent more time on it in 3 weeks than I have with my PS4 in a year (excluding Blurays and Netflix).

Eh, that's kind of stretching it. You'll be using mostly bargain-bin hardware to put together anything for $500 if you're building from scratch. An acceptable GPU alone will be over $200.

It really has. It's actually kind of a nonsensical talking point. You expect a new console to be more powerful than the previous console. That it's their best hardware ever is a given. It's almost like saying "it's powered by ELECTRICITY".

Well it will probably be $400 12 months after release.

Are you seriously saying that a tiny handful of people getting their screens scratched by defective units (which are replaced for free) means they should throw out the entire concept of being able to dock the console to a TV? Because I'm very glad they didn't.

4K is fast becoming the standard for new TVs, it's really not that expensive anymore. My parents bought a Panasonic 4K TV on sale for just €550 and that was over a year ago now. During the lifecycle of this console, 4K will stop being considered any sort of premium feature. It's also much cheaper for VR than the PC…

Once upon a time it was that there was no point in getting a HD TV at less than 40", because who can even tell the difference. Now nobody would buy any TV that wasn't in HD, unless they're being deliberately retro.

Same as the market for the iPhone 7 vs the iPhone 6, or for the Galaxy S8 over the S7. I think most new buyers would rather spend the extra cash for future-proofing, and they'll start to phase out the original one completely soon enough.

If you're serious about gaming and want to stay somewhat up to date, $500 on a good video card you'd have to replace every second year at the least.

There are a fairly big contingent of consumers, whom I'll refer to as "Apple customers" who like to spend top dollar for what they think is the best thing, but they really don't want to be bothered with nerdy shit like learning about computer hardware. These kind of people will never bother getting a high-end PC or…

People notice a lot more when it gets taken away though. I, and many others, originally didn't think much of HD either. "Who cares, barely even looks that different, I survived fine with SD until now". But a few years later and I'm suddenly outraged that a Youtube video is loading in 720p instead of 1080p and I can…

To be honest, when you end up accumulating enough of these things, you start to appreciate ones that are just boxes that you can stack.

It's true! We're so lame!

The naming convention they've gone with sucks and is definitely going to be confusing to consumers. There is no clear differentiation between what is basically a form-factor upgrade (Xbox One S) and an actual hardware upgrade (Xbox One X).

It will eventually have exclusive games. They won't be sold as that, but a time will come when developers will stop bothering to make games also able to run well on the weaker Xbox One hardware. Also, to be fair, it looks like they're going to look substantially better, assuming they're running in 4K.

X1X is one I've been seeing that makes sense.

The funny thing about gaming hardware is that the less successful it was, the more it's worth on the retro market. The Philips CD-i is much more valuable than a PS1.

It's $100 less than the "nobody will pay that much for a game console" PS3 at launch price, and that was a flop early on.