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Intrinsic on 05 March 2015
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Landguy said:
If this generation is short(4 years), then there will be another Xbox. If it goes long(6+ years) there will be no need.

Same goes for a PS5, but I think Sony would be required to sell one as they don't have the infrastructure(owning the main OS) to support their brand. Sure, They will stream, but thats the whole point, they wouldn't need to have a console at all then...

This gen can't be shirt. and anytime I see someone say this it just makes me feel they don't have a realistic handle on how the industry works.

No one likes the idea of tossing away a user base only to jump start a new generation and spend tons more money. Especially publishers. And more importantly, what does a short gen mean? a short gen (next gen starts 2017, just two years from now) will mean that there will be a far less noticeable jump in hardware between this gen and the next one. Hell, if that happens the next gen consoles will still be 1080p consoles and probably have no more than 8/12GB of RAM. There will be absolutely zero logical reason to start a new gen with consoles that don't differentiate themselves in anyway what so ever.  

The reason and only reason MS could JumpStart a new gen from XB to 360 was simply cause then we were looking at the obvious jump from SD to HD. Today majority of the games released can even run on last gen hardware. 

spemanig said:


I never said their replacements would be PCs or Android machines. I think that PS Now will succeed the PS4, and whatever Microsoft is doing now is a step towards a similar future, most likely through XBL. The only reason I think Nintendo won't be doing the same thing next generation is because they don't have the foundation or resources to do it. Also, they extually have a successful handheld that complicates things.

Only collectors and nostalgics want physical consoles. Most people only want the games.

PSnow won't/can't replace the PS5/XB2 for the same reason the PS4/XB1 still come with disc drives. Unless you think everyone in the world will have access to 5Mb/s internet speeds by 2019/2020.