Playstation 'will reclaim lead'

[Ail]

sc94597 said:

Ail said:
I highly doubt the PS3 will get the lead this gen but I doubt too the fact that as the market extends to more casual gamers that the renewal rate for consoles will stay as short as it has been in the past.
So he's got some stuff wrong but I think the PS3 will last closer to 10 years than from 5 years...

Maybe it's just me but personally I feel the leaps from one gen to the next have been smaller and smaller and it's going to become harder and harder to convince the buyers to move a new console.
This gen the arguments were HD, Graphics, CPU.

One of those at least won't be there next gen.( HD standards won't change within 3 years)
Graphics are slowly closing to the point where making them better won't improve so much more how immersive game are.
And like many have pointed out on this site, development costs raised with this gen and developers will want more time to amortize all the new engines they have built or are building with this gen of console...

 There is still more to making a more powerful console than graphics. It could make larger worlds, better ai, and physics. Those are just a few. Not to mention innovations such as the wii and ds that allow for a diiferent way to play.

I will give ya larger worlds and better AI ( although what % of the games are constrained byt this gen ? yeah Liberty City could be 3 times bigger, but imagine the development cost....And more linear games are not constrained by the console specs right now, just by the amount of time and money the developers are willing to poor into them) but better physics ? Honestly I would think a lot of us don't want their gaming experience to become too close to reality( I crash my car into another and it gets damage ok, I don't really care if the damage is exactly the same as would happen in a rl world crash..).