| DonFerrari said: For anyone that says developers doesn't care about power.... That is the reason for change of generation about every generation. When devs start hitting the ceiling of the HW on consoles and it's feasible to make a newer and stronger HW that is what MS and Sony do. |
No, the real reason is business. If you need only one thing (car, cell phone, ...) you tend to buy one and use it a long time. For a seller of that product this is bad, as it means after they sold to everyone they are relegated to replacement sales and some kid getting grown up and needing it's own copy of the thing. So they introduced a long time ago new models for the product and introducing new models regularly with new features, colors, ads, whatever. Gaming consoles are differing only in one regard: a successful console needs a big library and a game maker prefers platforms that have a huge userbase he can sell to. So the introduction of new models is risky. Therefore we don't see new models every year like for cell phones. Still, if the sales of the console start to drop the risk for a new console is reducing. If the old one sells slower and slower you can take the risk to start with a new console with small library and small userbase (in the beginning).
But you always need something to sell the new model. For gaming consoles the simple thing is to say: games look better. That's why they increase the power, but increased power is not the initial reason to introduce a new gen.
