Please some explain this to me

[famousringo]

theprof00 said:

famousringo said:

My point was that he presented absolutely nothing which could be refuted. He simply asserted that Sony has some secret knowledge which nobody else has about this generation being twice the size of any previous generation. I didn't mean to suggest that things can't change, but he needs to present some kind of an argument as to why things have changed. From where I'm sitting, there's really no indication that the ~5 year cycle has been broken.

Yeah, I see what you are saying, but look at it this way. He's saying things will change, and you are saying it will not. Although you have a much better case than he does, you are both talking in absolutes.

I totally agree with you, but like I said, Sony does have access to a lot more information than we do, so honestly, unless we are there we can't be totally sure of anything.

 

 

No, I don't deal in absolutes, and I'm not sure kjj4t9rdad does either. In fact, I try to go out of my way to avoid speaking in absolute terms. I'm just talking about empirical evidence versus faith. The evidence suggests that this generation will probably last about as long as the previous four did, and I'm not inclined to believe otherwise just on the faith that Sony might know better than me. I'd like to see reasons.

The only reason I can think of is that Sony needs the extra five years to get the PS3 down to mass market prices and make profits off of their massive investments. But Sony doesn't get to decide how long a generation lasts all on their own, and certainly not when they're bringing up the rear in the console race. Microsoft is still hungry and it's training its guns on Nintendo and the casual/family space now.