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Corey on 13 January 2013

You don't need to be an employee at sony to understand the idea of a 10 year life cycle.
Just look at examples like the PS2 and PSP, both are suppose to have 10 year life cycles but after 6-7 years the successor is released but the console itself maintains production and some software support for the remaining duration of that lifecycle.
The 10 year life cycle excuse also allows them to dismiss rumours of a successor and maintain consumer confidence that their purchase won't be discontinued prematurely.

The PS4 will launch late 2013, that means by that time the PS3 will be 7 or so years old, then expect for the next several years after that for the PS3 to get some PS4 ports as well as annual titles such as Fifa.



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platformmaster918 on 13 January 2013
Corey said:
You don't need to be an employee at sony to understand the idea of a 10 year life cycle.
Just look at examples like the PS2 and PSP, both are suppose to have 10 year life cycles but after 6-7 years the successor is released but the console itself maintains production and some software support for the remaining duration of that lifecycle.
The 10 year life cycle excuse also allows them to dismiss rumours of a successor and maintain consumer confidence that their purchase won't be discontinued prematurely.

The PS4 will launch late 2013, that means by that time the PS3 will be 7 or so years old, then expect for the next several years after that for the PS3 to get some PS4 ports as well as annual titles such as Fifa.

thank you for explaining clearer I was kind of hot when I made this thread because I saw this misconception for about the 100th time on N4G on some PS4 article and had to get my voice out there.




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michael_stutzer on 13 January 2013

Now that the percentage is 100%, I guess there won't be any misconceptions from now on.



chapset on 13 January 2013

ps4 will be out in 2016 according to the 10 year cycle of sony, unlike Nintendo who ships a new console every now and then



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platformmaster918 on 13 January 2013
chapset said:
ps4 will be out in 2016 according to the 10 year cycle of sony, unlike Nintendo who ships a new console every now and then

*walks out of room and punches hole in wall*




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chapset on 13 January 2013
platformmaster918 said:
chapset said:
ps4 will be out in 2016 according to the 10 year cycle of sony, unlike Nintendo who ships a new console every now and then

*walks out of room and punches hole in wall*

Yeah I know it's late but unlike Nintendo you get the full advantage of what you paid for qith sony :P



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Adinnieken on 13 January 2013
platformmaster918 said:

Every article I see on PS4 I see someone comment that it won't come out till PS3 has been around 10 years or Sony betrayed us.  This is not a difficult thing to understand people.  10 year life-cycle=/= no successor for 10 years.  PS2 is still going after 12 years and yet PS3 did indeed come out.  Feel free to ask me to clarify further and help end this stupid misconception once and FOR ALL!

Wait!!!  You're telling me that a 10 year life cycle DOESN'T mean it'll be 10 years before there's a successor, then you cite the PS2 being available for 12 years.

Clearly Sony has waited more than 12 years to release a legitimate successor to the PS2, so I don't get your meaning.  On one hand you say a 10 year life cycle doesn't mean 10 years before a successor is released, but then it's been 12 years since the PS2 was released and Sony hasn't released a successor to it.  I'm lost.



HoloDust on 13 January 2013

@ OP - Don't get upset - some people are just...thick...and don't want to understand what 10 year life cycle means, no matter how many times you explain it to them.



platformmaster918 on 13 January 2013
Adinnieken said:
platformmaster918 said:

Every article I see on PS4 I see someone comment that it won't come out till PS3 has been around 10 years or Sony betrayed us.  This is not a difficult thing to understand people.  10 year life-cycle=/= no successor for 10 years.  PS2 is still going after 12 years and yet PS3 did indeed come out.  Feel free to ask me to clarify further and help end this stupid misconception once and FOR ALL!

Wait!!!  You're telling me that a 10 year life cycle DOESN'T mean it'll be 10 years before there's a successor, then you cite the PS2 being available for 12 years.

Clearly Sony has waited more than 12 years to release a legitimate successor to the PS2, so I don't get your meaning.  On one hand you say a 10 year life cycle doesn't mean 10 years before a successor is released, but then it's been 12 years since the PS2 was released and Sony hasn't released a successor to it.  I'm lost.

never heard of PS3 I take it?




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Kantor on 13 January 2013
platformmaster918 said:
Corey said:
You don't need to be an employee at sony to understand the idea of a 10 year life cycle.
Just look at examples like the PS2 and PSP, both are suppose to have 10 year life cycles but after 6-7 years the successor is released but the console itself maintains production and some software support for the remaining duration of that lifecycle.
The 10 year life cycle excuse also allows them to dismiss rumours of a successor and maintain consumer confidence that their purchase won't be discontinued prematurely.

The PS4 will launch late 2013, that means by that time the PS3 will be 7 or so years old, then expect for the next several years after that for the PS3 to get some PS4 ports as well as annual titles such as Fifa.

thank you for explaining clearer I was kind of hot when I made this thread because I saw this misconception for about the 100th time on N4G on some PS4 article and had to get my voice out there.

Seeing Sony trolling on N4G always confuses me because that site is 95% Sony fan.

It's also one of the most dimwitted communities on the internet, so I advise you to stay away if you are upset by poor logic.

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