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HappySqurriel on 27 March 2010
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Mr Khan said:
archbrix said:
jake_the_fake1 said:
It's way to early for this Gen to End, and in no way shape or form should any company release a new console until the PS2 is is dead....I mean we can't have 3 generations of consoles all being sold at the same time, it's just ridiculous.

To be honest, I feel like this Gen is finally kicking into gear and were getting better and better games....I reckon we should give this Gen another 5 years, make the next wave of consoles release some time in 2015-2016.

I can see your point about the PS2.  And while I agree that this gen could easily go on longer (just like Microsoft and Sony would like it to) I disagree that it will be 2015 before we see a brand-new system out... someone will make a move before then, and once they do the competition will follow thereafter.

 

That's the issue. I do think that Sony and Microsoft would like to have a good couple of years to really drive their consoles in the black, but neither of them could afford to wait around while Nintendo potentially co-opts them with a console that could eat into their respective bases. If Nintendo moves in 2011, they're going to have to move by 2012 at the latest

 

Which they could certainly do. It's almost assured that there's an Xbox 720 and a PS4 floating around out there, just nothing that's consumer-ready at all, but motherboards are probably designed, specs laid out, major design challenges specified, they would just need to get dev kits out there and knock it into something marketable.

I wouldn’t say that anything has been finalized for either the next generation consoles (at the moment) but they have all probably been in a position since the middle of 2009 that given 6 months notice the hardware could be mostly-finalized; with some time for tweeking clock speeds and what not. From 2005/2006 until 2009 these companies all have the luxury of working at a high level and coming up with abstract ideas about what they want their hardware to be; but after that they’re constantly working under the knowledge that one of their competitors could announce the release of their next generation console and force their hand.