You can't compare bitcoin to video games if you want to make any sort of sense.
I am comparing bitcoin to any software evolution since Bitcoin IS a software first of all. It is a software that is in its early days. ALL software evolve and will have higher hardware requirements until they reach an equilibrium of code optimization and hardware capabilities. Bitcoin hasn't reached that equilibrium since it's only ~6 years old. Let it evolve!
With your logic we end up with a new iOS every year, designed at pushing the hardware and getting us to buy a new iPhone...
You just proved my point. Let's get deeper into this. Remember that nobody is forcing you to buy a new iPhone. You could still use the old ones if you don't upgrade and you can still make calls with a Nokia 1100. This is what we need to happen with Bitcoin too.
That's completely backwards, it just makes so much more sense to wait that the hardware actually is of handling it before doing a modification...
Care to explain why? I see it as wasted time since we can have checkpoints and we can always revert to any setting to avoid problems. We could always decrease the blocksize if we really can't handle bigger blocks. Waiting for the hardware = wasted development time.
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If the fork were to succeed somehow, I would be done with bitcoin. I'm not going to start supporting UnSavoryGarnish just because it's taken a trendier hippsterish form.
Quoted for future laughs and for putting salt on pain!