| HappySqurriel said: Before I get started, I just want to say that I think what one of the Console manufacturer’s mean when they say they expect their console to have a 10 year life is quite a bit different from what people interpret that to mean. I think it is fair to say that they expect to continue manufacturing the console for 10 or more years, and for some companies to continue to make games for 10 or more years, and it is not a statement that they’re not releasing a new console for a decade. As an example, consider that the PS2 will soon be 10 years old, Sony replaced it after 6 years (in most markets), and there really hasn’t been much of note released on it in 3 years. |
Am I the only one that thinks the ps3 will be discontinued within a year of the ps4 coming out? It made sense for them to do it with the ps2 because they had a huge user base and game library they could collect a massive royalities from. With the ps3 the library is much smaller and alot of the titles have gone multiplatform so the amount of money they make is very little to warrent keeping it going. It would be better for them to get rid of the ps3 as soon as the ps4 comes and focus on marketshare on the new console instead of having the last gen machine cannibalize the new machines sales.
