I thought console generations were going to get longer with gen 7, and Sony agreed, declaring something along the lines of a 10-year life span for PS3. But the PS3 wasn't popular enough for that to happen, and the best-selling home console of that generation was, in my opinion, cut off early. Maybe this is Nintendo realizing that was a mistake and deciding to see things through rather than artificially speed up the start of the next gen.







