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Originally Posted by The Saint
You're putting the wagon before the horse, mate. TM's designs established those aftermarket standards in the first place, so they're betting that the market will simply re-establish new standards around new TM designs. Considering how dated the v2 and v3 are, I think a renovation is overdue.
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The thing is TM established the current standards more than a decade ago so they are everywhere and very well established. I see it not so much as "we started this, now we want to update it" but more as "we started this, you guys took it way farther and invested lots more money, but now since we started it years ago we want you to throw buckets of money away changing it."
Me and most airsofters I regularly play with would go for guns that are more reliable, easier to work on, and sound less like sewing machines. I know very few people who give a rats ass about blow back bolts and those that do only want them for wall hangers.
The ver.3 mechbox is established as a rock solid performer through many years of use. To try to replace it with an untested mechbox design that is totally different from anything before isn't usually a great idea. I mean look at the SystemA PTW's, they didn't get really popular in Canada until the MAX series came out, that was something like the 5th or 6th version (based on Japans model year system, not the generation system we commonly know.) Another example would be how Sony came out with the minidisk after the CD was established for portable music. It died in short order even though it had many advantages over CD's.
I guess the point most relevant to this thread is, if you are buying an AK or M4 right now, get a ver.2 or ver.3. When/if the ver.9 becomes big in a couple years, you can swap over then.