Are there any benefits to shorter lifespans for consoles?

[teigaga]

garretslarrity said:

KBG29 said:
The only people that really benefit from a short cycle are people with lots of money, people that need the best graphics all the time, or people that are living life trying to impress others with their material buying power. For the rest of us, and the entire game developement and ppublishing industry longer is better.

And for those people, I would recommend a PC.  So the one demographic that would benefit is not even best suited for consoles in the first place.

The whole notion that consoles and PC are interchangable for everyone is really tired, tons of console gamers are graphic whores and tech enthusiasts, but they simply do not want to game on PC. I mean why else did the PS4 sell 16m in 12months when 95% of its games were available on the previous generations? Because people cared about graphics, performance and new tech. If they wanted PC's they would have got one, but they don't.