Sony Isn't Sure About The PS3's LifeSpan - 8 to 10 years

[smallflyingtaco]

Loud_Hot_White_Box said:

smallflyingtaco said:
I had written off the 10 year plan as marketing spin for awhile. Even if Sony makes it anything other than specialty stores would not keep them on the shelves. It will probably last until the year after release of the PS4 -- living in a small corner of the PS4 case until there are enough PS4 games out to drive it out of most stores. Then it will quietly be discontinued or if Sony insists it will pile up in warehouses.

 

Nope, at sub-$200 (eventually, later half of the cycle), with its game library and movie download service and hard drive and media center capability and Blu-Ray player and free worldwide videoconferencing, it will continue to sell.

 

 Just like the Gamecube  and Xbox right?  By that point in its life the power user types, who will care about those features, will be done buying and your going to be getting the most casual of the casual buyers, Wii buyers, who  would not even know that you could get it at Gamestop for $50 used.  If there is a miracle and it somehow sells 100 million I will change my mind but right now it is not the PS1 or PS2 and will not follow them.