8 Disastrous Console Upgrades The PS4.5 Must Learn From

Before the NES was released, the games industry was a free-for-all, with so many incremental upgrades being released for tens of consoles that it was hard to tell what was actually worth buying.

Atari was the market leader at the time, and it wanted to solidify itself and break away from the competition with the Atari 7800, a replacement for the Atari 5200 that was fully backwards-compatible with old Atari 2600 games. It was technically the greatest of the pre-NES consoles. But the problem was that it wasn't actually a pre-NES console, despite its outdated games library making it feel like one.

While the 7800 was competitive with the NES in terms of hardware, its exclusive games were far inferior, seemingly stuck in the past while games for Nintendo's maiden console were a revolution in gameplay and video game storytelling (i.e. games like Zelda actually told a story rather than just making you complete levels for no reason, or fly a plane for no reason, or whatever other context-free silliness old Atari games made you do).

What the PS4.5 can learn:

Use the new console to offer new experiences to gamers, and really show that there has been progress since the last one. Just releasing the same old games with a 4K lick of paint won't be enough.

Do you see any way for Sony to succeed with the PS4.5? Let us know in the comments!