Soundwave
The funny thing is of the four historical big hardware makers in the post-Atari era, Nintendo, Sega, and Microsoft (3 out of 4, with Sony being the other) have all had their most successful game platforms "cut off" their previous systems prematurely. The XBox 360 (2005) cut off the XBox (2001) early. This is the best selling MS system. The DS (2004) cut off the Game Boy Advance (2001) early. DS is the best selling Nintendo system. The Genesis (1989) cut off the Sega Master System (1986) early. Genesis is Sega's best selling system. The "ohmygod! you can't not support a system for 5 years! Consumers will punish you!" is really honestly one of those old wives tales that doesn't actually hold up to real scrutiny. |
Pure spin at its finest. Those platforms had a much more important purpose. Genesis was meant to cutoff SNES not SMS. 360 was meant to cutoff PS3 not Xbox, and DS was meant to cutoff PSP. You conveniently ignore this to push your agenda of WiiUs shorter life. None of those plats were meant to compete with the past Gen. They were meant to get a jumpstart on the next. No company is dumb enough to release a platform that is meant to target platforms that are already on the market. NX job will not be target PS4, it will be meant to start Next gen Ninty hardware. Whether that includes 3rd parties is unknown.
