Is the day of unique consoles mostly over?

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UnderwaterFunktown said:

To an extent but not completely. The phone market is a good example of what happens once an industry reaches a point where there's no point in upgrading or innovating further. They either do it anyways or try to convince people they do so they can keep on selling.

The thing with phones is that they are also seen as a necessity product...
I.E. To make and receive phones calls and messages, to check emails and more for work.
Eventually your current device will fail or break from being dropped or something... And you might as well replace it with whatever the latest and greatest is.
I have the S23 Ultra and my partner just got the S24 Ultra, there is barely any difference between the two, might as well call the S24 Ultra an S23 Ultra Plus... But we replace our phones with the latest flagship when our current one breaks anyway, so they could call the latest phone "Pigs might fly" and we will still buy it if needed.

Consoles aren't like that, they are mostly just an entertainment device and not a requirement for work. - I could probably skip a whole console generation these days and not bat an eye as the Playstation 5/Xbox Series are very much the same experience as the previous generation, just faster.

It's only if there is a rare "must have" exclusive that there is any incentive to upgrade consoles... Even then they are released on PC these days.