Who agrees with me in thinking Wii will have the longest lifespan this gen?

[frybread]

Avinash_Tyagi said:

frybread said:

Hard to say. Historically, I've found that lifespans aren't determined by "winning the generation" or by technical prowess. They seem to be linked close to a company's inability to produce a worthy successor.

Longest lifespan ever:

Atari 2600

Second longest ever:

Neo Geo

Third:

Sega Genesis

 

All three consoles were followed by relative failures, so fans stuck to the original.

 

The console with the longest lifespan this gen is likely to be from the company that releases the worst console next gen.

 

 NES had a 20 year lifespan (in japan), and no one will say that the SNES wasn't a worthy successor

You must be using a different definition of lifespan.  I'm going by the last licensed game released.