What should be the reasonable lifespan of a console?

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Cerebralbore101 said:
The Wii U only had a 3 year life cycle which was horrible. There are not any good games coming out for the Wii U this year, effectively making it a dead console.

Five years is a good number.

It'll be four years this November. Too bad they basically dropped support over a year ago.