Moore's Law, PS3 and next gen

[CrashMan]

patjuan32 said:
Um guys, you miss understood Sony. When they said the PS3 would last more than 10 years, they were talking about the Cell processor Architecture. This means that instead of changing the architecture for the PS4. Sony will have IBM develop a faster Cell Processor and ATI will develop a faster GPU. This will make the PS4 cheaper. Besides this is what Nintendo did with the Wii.

Sony Japan actually said "we will not ask consumers to buy another playstation in 5 years"

There isn't any wiggle room in that statement.  They either stick by it or they don't.

 

Hus:  Third parties will NOT just make a game for a console because it is there.  If it is financially viable, they will make it for that console.  If the playstation 3 is a viable console in 8 years, 3rd parties will make games for it.  If it is not a financially viable console in 2 years, 3rd parties will not make games for it (for the most part)

Game companies are just like any other business, they will not undertake a project if they don't think they will make money on it.

 And besides, Sony is a publically traded company, they will do whatever their investors tell them to do, unless sony execs hold more than 50% shares in the company, then the execs do what they want.  Even then, Sony's game division is a piece of Sony corp as a whole, so they have a responsibility to the company to be profitable