Would you get a beefed up Ps4 Even if you own a ps4 already?

No, because the vast majority of devs wouldn't support the .5+, beefed up version of a machine.

They would follow the money. The money is in the CURRENT 28+ million and growing install base...and right now the PS4 is already the number one selling console by a large margin.

Furthermore the PS4 is already the most powerful console on the market.

No point in buying a updated machine that would have almost no support/divided support. A tiny few devs would throw out half assed support and call it a day. It's simply too risky to cut off the current install base to support a new half measured machine.

Developers would have no incentive to tap the extra juice of the hardware and would lazily slap current PS4/Xbone games on it.

It won't happen and people that have been in the industry long enough should stop making articles like this every generation as all it does is confuse people every five years into thinking it's a good idea when it's actually a terrible idea.

We already have many historical examples of this idea not catching on from the Sega Genesis, Saturn, N64, New 3DS, etc.

@SolidTy:

The N3ds is a perfect example. It has like one game that is exclusive to it.

@SolidTy: I actually agree with that.

@polishkid99: was about to say the same thing

No and it's a horrible idea.

@polishkid99: Yeah the N3DS was a terrible idea. I was optimistic at first, but an entire year went by and it only had one exclusive game to make use of that added power - and that was a port - annnnnd it still had poor screen resolution.

Anyway... this beefed up PS4 thing... No, I don't think it's a good idea. It should have been "beefed up" from the start.

This is actually probably a thought Sony had to compete with claims that the Nintendo NX could be more powerful than the PS4, making it the most powerful system on the market when it launches.

My thing is, I've had the PS4 since launch, and still don't really have a game for it that impresses me. Right now we have two games for the system on disc - one is a multiplat, the other is a port of a PS2 game, and both of them are my wife's. The game I have on the PS4 that I've enjoyed the most is probably Hotline Miami, and its sequel - and those definitely don't harness the system's full power.

It doesn't matter to me if the PS4 is as powerful as it is now, or more powerful. The thing is, it really doesn't have the games.

No I wouldn't