| happydolphin said: But your argument is a stretch in the definition of a generation, and as far as I'm concerned history has dictated the need for new consoles due to hardware limitations. The rest is adaptation. |
If computer technology sees an end to Moores Law, we will see no new generation following your definition. Only one new current-gen console after the other.
Also talking about hardware-limitations - obviously the following machines were also restricted in hardware, because they are followed by another. Not the limitations are the reason for a new gen. Only because technology evolved, the machine is able for more.
If your theory would be true, and the new gen is needed because game-creators are restricted by specs - why do we see at the start of a gen the same games? Only after some time we see evolved games that are able to do more with the hardware. That looks more like the game-creators adapt to the new possibilities of the hardware, instead the hardware adapts to the needs of the game-creators.
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