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Sony Releasing New 1TB PlayStation 4 In July
Mark Wilson writes: Known as the 1TB PS4 Ultimate Player Edition (or PlayStation 4 Ultimate Player 1TB Edition depending on who you're talking to), Sony is launching a new PlayStation 4 next month. With the ever-growing market for downloadable content, it's difficult to have too much disk space. Recognizing this, Sony is doubling the size of the largest capacity PS4. The 1TB console will launch next month in the US, Asia and Europe, and the announcement comes just weeks after Microsoft announced a 1TB version of its Xbox One. Gamers in Japan will be able to get their hands on the console by the end of June, but the rest of the world will have to wait until July 15. There's no word on pricing, but Sony has detailed a few other changes that have been made to this version of the console.
I don't want a console, regardless of maker. They symbolize a fundamental pacts broken:
During the "don't copy that floppy" era, there were promises made repeatedly that if piracy went away, prices on software would decrease sharply. When the latest and greatest DRM system hit, it was mentioned that if piracy went away, the money spent on that would be shaved off the prices of games and other items.
Well, fast forward to today. Consoles have a 0% piracy rate on the latest gen, and previous gen consoles get perma-banned if the network detects they were modded. Have game prices on consoles gone down as repeatedly pledged to us? No. In fact, to play a game (or actually get a "game"'s worth of content), it requires hundreds of dollars of DLC.
So, consoles are an embodiment of a lie promised to the consumer repeatedly, but for the price of a PC game, one gets the luxury of paying a lot more for an immutable, unmodable game, which can't even be sold at a used game store.
Isn't the price of a new game typically $50-60? That's the same as 20 years ago, so in inflation-adjusted dollars, the prices have dropped quite a bit.
I do agree with you about the extra downloadable content issue, but I don't usually buy games like those.