BlkPaladin on 24 April 2016
If you look at it from an economic stand point a longer generation is better for the wallet, but if you look at it from what is better for the industry as a whole, including the PC market research shows it better to have about a five year cycle. It seems that developers are more prone to try something new, as in new IP earlier in a console's generation. And the longer generation last gen caused some stagnation
