Re:What about Indrema? (Score 1)

There has been no successful major console upgrade yet.

True, AFAIK . . . but there are some significant differences from past incarnations and Indrema's proposal . . .

For example, Indrema wants to allow its users to upgrade the HDD, CD/DVD. Previous consoles didn't even have a disk so this question was moot. The size of a system's disk doesn't affect its performance in any way that a designer would need to worry about.

Sega is probably the only company that has followed through with its attempt at making true upgrades available but tripped over itself when it was producing games in triplicate--for Genesis, SegaCD, and 32X--and later for Saturn as well. Their problem was that, by creating very similar versions of each game, they gave users little incentive to upgrade. 32X was little more than a sham and added very little to the Genesis. SegaCD on the other hand was pretty popular, and the storage available led to some great RPGs. The problem here? Most people interested in RPGs had a Super Famicon/Super Nintendo and were playing Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Ogre Battle . . . the list goes on and on.

SegaCD was also hurt by everyone's need to include grainy FMV in everything as the only reason to get that version and not the Genesis one . . .