Shadow1980 said:
Nintyfan90 said:
Ok good post although what you said about the 7th gen can be applied to the 5th and 6th gen because the PS4 wont have the dominate 3rd party support
*sigh* It's not about "dominant" third-party support. It's about support in general. The NES was getting games until 1994. The SNES & Genesis were getting games until 1998. The PS1 was getting games until 2004. The PS2 didn't get its last game until two years ago. The 360 & PS3 are still getting games. All these systems had strong support during the generation proper as well. The PS4 & XBO are both getting strong support and thus won't simply drop off into oblivion before the next generation even begins.
So all we can do is wait and see what kind of legs the PS4 has.
There is no "wait and see." We will not see a mid-gen post-peak drop-off like we did with the Wii and other systems that had relatively poor support. There is simply no precedent for it and thus no reason to postulate that such an occurrence will happen.
Im personally not buying that the "7th gen dynamics were odd."
Yes, because a very unconventional console selling 100 million units and the two conventional console peaking 3-4 years after the norm was totally expected. If you don't realize how unusual the dynamics of last gen were, then you can't say you're familiar with the history of the console market. The seventh generation was unusually protracted, which was caused by the extremely delayed peaks of the 360 & PS3, which may have been at least in part caused by high demand for the Wii early in the generation.
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I wasnt challenging the 7th gen isnt odd, I was challenging whether the PS4 could suffer a similar fate to 360/PS3. Both had great support and both dropped off quite quickly. Obviously platforms with 3rd party support arent immune to fast dropoffs. Just last gen that happened so thats what i meant by im not buying 7th gen was odd. I think the 7th gen showed us without dominate 3rd party support longer lives become quite challenging.
