Nintendo seems to be doing this with their handheld line. But the issue is Nintendo always makes money off its consoles. Microsoft and Sony typically lose mone

Nintendo seems to be doing this with their handheld line. But the issue is Nintendo always makes money off its consoles. Microsoft and Sony typically lose money per console for a good portion of the sales cycle. So either cost has to be driven down dramatically, or you have to expect people to pay significantly more per console and then expect them to update more frequently. I think in the future we'll see it where you'll be able to upgrade a console, like a gen .5 where you just connect a pack into an expansion bay and it boosts CPU/RAM/GPU to allow the game to run with better graphics