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AlfredoTurkey on 17 February 2018
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VGPolyglot said:
AlfredoTurkey said:

If this is true, and there is no solution, then I have a hard time not feeling negative about the industry as a whole. How can we keep it running like this if the console cycles are going to be ten years? These things aren't cell phones. They're not necessities. People won't upgrade yearly just because. So where are we going to go from here? If I'm burning out at the idea of seven year cycles, how do you think people will deal with longer ones? I mean, it just seems like a massive problem and no one wants to address it.

Well, the question is whether or not we really need to advance much further gaming-wise. I think we're reaching the point of diminishing returns.

So then what? At what point do we all just collectively look in the mirror and go... ok... end game? We can't do ten year cycles and have this thing continue on in a healthy way. If we can't provide significant upgrades on a timely bases, what are we going to do to get people to upgrade? Better OS? The ability to more seamlessly post pictures of videos? I don't get it. What are we going to sell?