Personally, I try to be a bit more conscious of the hardware product I'm buying and what I'm getting from those features.
Then you're not a console gamer. You're a PC gamer that doesn't know it yet.
The PS4 and XB1 will have a software library that is 95+% identical by the end of the generation, and both are just underpowered PCs. If you're not buying them for exclusive games, you're buying them for no reason whatsoever.
And when did I say the PS4 and XB1 are ideal machines in my eyes? I prefer Nintendo's approach of building a console around the games they want to make, and offering unique hardware because of that. And I do buy machines for exclusives, I just don't like that I do that.
That said, I do prefer a lot of what PC offers in the form of steam sales and easily moddable titles and controller flexability. Problem is, I usually tend to work on a laptop rather than a desktop, so the machine I usually have that can play the best games isn't generally hooked up to a TV. A console does offer a relatively lower price in this case, as, for a TV, I don't need full PC capability. Also I generally prefer Mac OS.
Doesn't that kind of bother you when you think about it though? If you don't care about the hardware, the main reason you are buying systems is for exclusive games, which are, for the most part, a pretty artificial form of differentiation that just helps Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft's bottom line. It's very similar to the Smartphone market in the iPhone's first few years, where many people chose a carrier mostly because of a phone artificially held exclusive.
Personally, I try to be a bit more conscious of the hardware product I'm buying and what I'm getting from those features.
No, it doesn't bother me one bit and yes, I buy a system based on what exclusive games it has. Nintendo doesn't need any fancy/unique controllers to convince me to buy their console. Mario/Zelda/etc is enough. Them being different, when it comes to hardware, only deters 3rd parties.
To be honest, I couldn't care less about how similar a Nintendo console is to an XBox or a PlayStation. Heck, Nintendo could sell me a PlayStation 4 with a Nintendo sticker on it and I'd be happy as long as it played Nintendo 1st party games. I'd be even happier if it not only played Nintendo 1st party games, but all those other games we miss out on and at a quality level that rivals the competitors' hardware. Don't get me wrong here. I'm not saying Nintendo should stop making hardware. I'm saying that I just wished they made hardware that was more like everyone else.
But think about what you are saying for a second. You aren't buying a system because of free market forces in which a company is offering you a product innately has some distinct benefit you find. You are buying the product because creators decided to hold some software hostage on that platform, despite the fact that it could work on any platform. I'm not saying you shouldn't do that or that I don't do it. Obviously exclusivity makes a product enticing. I'm just saying it should bother you when you really consider what is happening.
And just for the record. Being different doesn't necessarily deter 3rd Parties. The Wii could have had equally strong 3rd Party support to it's competitors if it had been HD. Devs could easily just port games to Wii and ignore the motion controls.
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Focus on small improvements to the pro controller and gamepad, but make the pro controller the primary /bundled option and the gamepad as a more secondary high end solution for those who enjoy off screen play or a viable Internet browser for the TV.
Sony and Microsoft got it right with the DS4 and XB1 controllers, small improvements to already proven models.
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