Why PS3 should probably have a longer Life span than PS2. (Just an Opinion)

[Noobie]

CGI-Quality said:

Noobie said:
Just read a thread on Howard Stinger Comments which can be found on this thread.

"We developed brand new, absolutely incredible technology for the PlayStation 3 (PS3), but the cost was high", Stringer told Nikkei Electronics Asia. "We've adopted a slightly different approach now, and are evolving the PS3 into a platform for web services".

So if they feel that PS3 is evolving than how ppl are expecting to have such a short life.? i mean the management of Sony is definitely seeing potential and they can take full benefit out of it, if it has a longer life span..

I wander why ppl are so adverse to the idea that PS3 is going to live a bit longer .. it doesn't mean it will be as successful as PS2 or Wii but.. when Sony have put so much in the infrastructure and technology in PS3 and they are making it center of their services than how can they dump it suddenly.?

The majority of the people claiming this probably just DON'T want it to last long. Not that it will or won't, just that they would rather see it fail which is quite sad to be perfectly frank...

You are right.. i don't agree with Sony's strategy either but when i see their persistance and when i see the economic condition and especially Sony's own condition i don't see that they can launch another console.

Console launches are expensive, they need time, resources, infrastructure, now atleast they have console around which they have build an infrastructure, its billions of dollars of infrasture in the shape of PSN, Home, compilers, game engines, OS and suddenly they can't just abandon it and start over again.. it will kill them financially. 

I see that the only way they can survive is to persist with it.. and honestly speaking the main problem i see they have NOW is of console price.. rest of the PS3 issues have been well taken care of. they have truly unique and wide variety of high quality games and MultiPlatform has become much better on it too. we are seeing good software support also from the developers now. 

So i don't understand how people think that launching a new console will save Sony Money.? how they will save money if they launch a new console in 2 yrs.?