this 'appealing to everyone' is one of the problems with this generation of gaming, imo. Those consoles are 10 years old, and it's a bottleneck on developers in terms of imagination and what can be done-- what's even the point of PS4/XB1 when it's just higher framerate/resolution of the same games? But money talks.
I dunno man, people are routinely paying more than that for phones which get replaced far more frequently than consoles. The $400 price point isn't far off from last generation either, in the case of the ps4 it is quite a bit lower, but I'm pretty sure the console cycle won't be as long.
Do you think the current games console wars are just a bit odd? Do you think to much importance is still going on with development for 360/PS3 consoles? Stores stocking 360/PS3 titles as if in duplicate to Xbone/PS4? The graphics fidelity feels like it has not gone into hyper drive yet with exception to "The Order: 1886"…
New consoles like the xbox One and PS4 cost far too much money for adult working people to afford. They cost about $400. If you have a mom or dad that can buy that for you, great, but you're probably a teenager or below or maybe you got lucky. Most people in the world don't have that kind of luxury to drop that much cash…