Gaming explosions happen in prime number generations.

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Erik Aston on 03 May 2011

Gen 1: Odyssey. Failure.

Gen 2: Atari 2600. EXPLOSION. There had to be a gaming crash afterwards so there could be explosions in successive prime generations.

Gen 3: NES. EXPLOSION.

Gen 4: SNES and Genesis. Marginal growth.

Gen 5: PS1. EXPLOSION. Mostly in Europe.

Gen 6: PS2 and friends. Marginal growth.

Gen 7: Wii. EXPLOSION. However briefly...

Gen 8, 9, and 10: Zombie market. According to the perfect, infinite wisdom of prime numbers, the current sad state of affairs will last a long time. There are half a dozen gaming companies which can survive on the corpses of the others which are already dying all around. Gaming won't die, as start-ups will make brilliant games and pull in huge profits by self-distributing, but none will be able to launch a console and create another true explosion.

Gen 11: EXPLOSION. It has to be so.

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Galaki on 03 May 2011

Most of us would be too busy dying by the time for Gen 11.

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Faxanadu on 03 May 2011

Galaki said:

Most of us would be too busy dying by the time for Gen 11.

Dying? In 20 years? Why?

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Galaki on 03 May 2011

Faxanadu said:

Galaki said:

Most of us would be too busy dying by the time for Gen 11.

Dying? In 20 years? Why?

Due to diminishing return in graphics and processing, we'll have a longer gen for the next 3 gens or so.

So, it's going to be longer than 20 years and many of us would be dying from some kind of cancer.

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ishiki on 03 May 2011

I don't really see how the ps2 is not an explosion when it's the highest selling home console

and I nominate galaki for something. Not sure what.

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Kenryoku_Maxis on 03 May 2011

Erik Aston said:

Gen 1: Odyssey. Failure.

Gen 2: Atari 2600. EXPLOSION. There had to be a gaming crash afterwards so there could be explosions in successive prime generations.

Gen 3: NES. EXPLOSION.

Gen 4: SNES and Genesis. Marginal growth.

Gen 5: PS1. EXPLOSION. Mostly in Europe.

Gen 6: PS2 and friends. Marginal growth.

Gen 7: Wii. EXPLOSION. However briefly...

Gen 8, 9, and 10: Zombie market. According to the perfect, infinite wisdom of prime numbers, the current sad state of affairs will last a long time. There are half a dozen gaming companies which can survive on the corpses of the others which are already dying all around. Gaming won't die, as start-ups will make brilliant games and pull in huge profits by self-distributing, but none will be able to launch a console and create another true explosion.

Gen 11: EXPLOSION. It has to be so.

Sorry, but the biggest 'explosions' in the industry were Gen 2, 3 and 6 (Atari, NES and PS2).

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