Sony: PS3 will "SIGNIFICANTLY outpace Playstation 2"..in terms of Lifecycle

[crumas2]

Max King of the Wild said:

crumas2 said:
That's an interesting point-of-view, but it ignores one very simple fact... obsolescence of computer/electronic devices occurs more quickly with each generation, not more slowly. If MS or Nintendo decided to release a new console platform in 4 years, they could probably make it twice as powerful as the PS3 for much less than twice the cost.

Making something "future-proof" isn't possible with consoles, any more than it is with computers.

and... what devs will work with the console? HW pushes SW... a system just starting out with 0 user base with games starting to cost 20 million at the cheapest.

Assuming you try to do something nuts like create an entirely new platform that bears no resemblance to the previous generation... wait... that's what they did this gen...