Xbox One will be "more than a ten-year journey" for Microsoft

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darkknightkryta said:

Euphoria14 said:

darkknightkryta said:
Interesting. I personally disagree about the length of the new console cycle. Neither Sony nor MS built a machine that can last the run this time. I say their successors are going to get shown for the first time in 5 years time. 6 the latest.

Thanks to these new consoles from MS and Sony being made with mainly off the shelf PC parts evolving their consoles will be much easier. I expect it to end up like how smart phones evolutions are, only with more than 1 year between updates.

Off the shelf or not, they literally didn't build anything that can last.  The PC space has already eclipsed both of them.  It's only going to be worse in 5 years.  Especially with things heating up again between AMD and Nvidia.  5 years should be long enough for the both of them.  Plus they both should be able to have close to 100 dollar consoles by then (Well not MS anyways).

I guess only time will tell, but I don't see any reason for anything to require something like a Titan for gaming in the next few years. Even now my laptop with it's measly GT 550M has no trouble running every PC I throw at it. Granted I cannot do ultra settings with the best available AA, blah blah, but my games all still look stellar. If PS4 and/or XBone can run at those settings then they have nothing to worry about when it comes to PC and it's ultra high powered and ultra expensive hardware options.

They can worry about that many many years down the line and still have them be compatible with all their old titles.

Also, depending on where the streaming options end up 5 years down the line can make the PC hardware advances even less of a concern.

 

As I said though, only time will tell.