Do You Like or Hate It When Console Gens Go Long?

[Slimebeast]

I love long gens. It becomes more serious. People can invest in a long gen, and feel the stability and security.

Short gens, all these new products make people stressed. Your old device quickly becomes obsolete and you must hunt for the latest tech. Look at smartphones and tablets, how quickly they are replacing them with a new version, a new generation. I hate that.

But perhaps more importantly, a long generation becomes more meaningful from a cultural perspective. Consoles become part of gaming history, and are discussed and admired decades after they have gone out of production. A long generation puts a stronger imprint in history and our awareness. People will be able to categorize and memorize something much easier when there's a significant difference between one gen and the next, when there's multiple titles that represent an era. Thereby a console comes to represent something much more than just that year's technology, that year's version.