Does anyone else feel cheated

Erm......................that's the way with everything.

buy a new flagship phone today and I guarantee within six months a newer model will be out, same with TV's, computers, cars etc.

If you use the mentality that "I'll just wait a couple of years when a newer model gets released" then you'll always be waiting as there is always a newer model just over the horizon.

That's generally how It's been for every console released so I guess I'm just used to it. There is a ways a price drop at some point and different bundles being released. I remember being little and wanting a Super Nintendo and my parents waiting and buying
a bundle that only had 1 controller and no games because it was cheaper then the origins bundle with 2 controllers and a game. It's rare that I buy something at launch because of that.

As a rule, you never buy the 1st production runs of anything. I learned that lesson the hard way with the origional xbox back in 2002. That thing spent more time on a fed ex truck than it did actually running games. Horror story which ended with MS replacing
it with one that shot sparks out the back of the unit.

The 360 came out and remembering ^that lesson^ I waited. No RROD 4me for I paid attention and waited some 5 yrs before finally buying a 360 slim. Its still humming along. (knock on wood)

That said, If you wait. You'll not regret it, for allows in the 4th quarter of the following yrs. You can save a lot of cash on most everything.

I say: Patience!

An employee in a company and a consumer are very much different topics and alot of us have work our asses off and not be shown appreciation . But can you say in your 20 years you have not recieved a raise because thats a reward for your
work and loyalty. You make a fair point sigmaTheDJ, but if they are going to turn around and change and add every couple years I still believe we are paying to much for the base console. I see others don't share that and maybe your financially better off
than me, maybe your parents buy you these things so it doesn't matter to you. But like the crazy micro transactions now i see this getting out of hand

Was just trying to make the point that to most companies, even one you work for, loyalty means nothing.

Your first mistake was showing loyalty to a company that only cares about your money.

I will never understand why people are loyal to corporations who don't give a damn about them.