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Shorter life cycles are good.
- Excitement of new hardware with new possibilities.
- Room for innovation and new IPs.
- Level playing field for developers.

Longer life cycles leads to
- Stagnation and sequelitis.
- Established game engines that push the machines to the max leaving little room for experimental game play.
- Harder for small teams to break into the market.