supercat on 27 May 2010
| jarrod said: Can anyone name a 2nd/3rd place console that had a true 10 year cycle? 10 year plans are great PR (which Microsoft has espoused too btw), and lovely in theory, but there's a difference between that and it actually happening. Companies can't keep platforms on shelves through sheer force of will alone, it's quite literally the market that decides if a console sells for 10 years or or not. |
But now we have new developments which make a 10-year plan look quite attractive:
-slowdown of die reductions, moore's law is coming to a close, fast, and soon the die reductions won't be that much of a deal. With chips staying the same size and not shrinking much, there is little need to move onto something more powerful.
-The Ps2 had a 10-year cycle.
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