They could have always supported software for that long. They simply refused to.

There is no benefit to slowing the release cycle. All of the research gets done either way, all of the supply chain modifications get made either way, and as an individual you have no need to replace your phone every year. A multi-year release cycle does very little but screw over people who need a new phone during the wrong point in the release cycle, while also substantially complicating the supply chains by making demand much spikier.

once you play for a while your brain stops thinking about the framerate.

Mine doesn’t. It feels like I’m fighting through sand the whole game.

I think OS is fine.

Making specs public is a privacy issue.

They’re doing the equivalent of buying twitter followers. The goal is simply to make more people make accounts so they can mislead developers into thinking their market has customers who will buy their game there.

“You can only buy this game in some big bundle you don’t want” is absolutely not “a good way”.

There is no market confusion. But if you want to play make believe that there is, rename the old one “2011 Sonic Generations” so it’s more obvious. (Obvious you won’t, because the goal is to pretend a slightly modified re-listing is a new game worth new game prices, but de-listing a game is almost always exploitive one way or another.)

I’d be interested in the form factor with like a raspberry pi in there.

Less powerful than that seems like a waste.