When Should Developers Leave Last-Gen Consoles Behind?

[IamAwsome]

SvennoJ said:

IamAwsome said:

SvennoJ said:
When profit from game sales on last gen consoles are not significant enough anymore.

As long as publishers like EA and Square Enix post losses ANY profits are significant enough. Money was also part of the reason this gen was so long in the first place.

At some point programming for many different systems will cost more than it's worth. For now simple cross gen ports are fine, but as competition keeps going the new and last gen versions will become too different.

It will be a while, PS2 still got new releases last holiday, PES, FIFA, FF11 Seekers of Adoulin, Don 2.
According to Wikipedia PS2 games released:
2013: 4
2012: 6
2011: 8
2010: 20
2009: 90

Looking at that number of PS2 games, PS3/360 will probably continue for another ~3-4 years. They'll move on at some point, but not now.