Esteem is part of what motivates us on a fundamental hardwired level, or at least it is for males. Esteem is a absolutely a zero sum game and confers substantial benefits in the competition for mating opportunities for 'winners'. It is incredibly powerful and it is why horrible, soul destroying jobs like investment banker, high frequency trader, or president of the united states, attract so many candidates.
wrt consumer products, the most profitable ones are the ones that purchasers believe will confirm some sort of status and raise their amount of esteem. The margins you can get on those products are huge. It also leaves people who don't have iphone 6s or a 400hbp electric car feeling like less of a person. It will be hard for Sony to manage this.
) need to just understand that this is a real possibility given the current market. If more sub-30fps games and sacrified performance (whatever that means) for PS4K games doesn't seem like a big deal, then by all means point and laugh. We'll see soon enough. But if people want to believe that EA, Ubisoft, and so on will suddenly care even more about the performance of their PS4/XB1 ports then I really don't know what to say.
