IBIS Report: 47% of videogame revenue are on Wii

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ssj12 said:

alfredofroylan said:

darthdevidem01 said:
Wait what do they mean by reducing the chances of the 9th gen?

aren't we in the 7th gen?

Or dot hey mean the one after nex gen!!!!!!

so nex nex gen?

{faints}

They're talking that we probably won't have a 9th generation because of DLC, non-disc games and so. A 8th generation is something that is going to happen but after that nobody knows.

there can be a 9th generation, easily. retailers would just sell download cards like for the PSP Go. Console power would be increased dramatically in a ten year space. DLC might make things hard to track, but hardware can be.

I think the 8th generation will be the last generation.  We've already reached a point where consoles are continually improving over time through firmware updates and hardware peripherals, and I think when the next set of consoles arrive, the big three will focus more on riding things out for a decade or more while making advancements primarily through software. 

We'll be at a point next gen where most of what they want to do will be limited by code rather than hardware.  Instead of advertising blitzes surrounding new hardware launches, we'll see big marketing pushes around big new features added via software or peripherals (like Microsoft did for the NXE, and will soon do for Natal).  Sony/Nintendo/MS will be content to sell their consoles for many years.

The next gen will last a very long time, with no defined 9th gen ever appearing.  Rather, we'll probably see slight upgrades or reincarnations of current hardware gradually over time (DS > DSi) with small tweaks that will allow the firmware teams to enable more and more features.

At least that's how I see it.  And that's assuming they don't skimp out on ram, something that has always been a bottleneck for consoles.