Sony: PS3 will "significantly outpace PS2"

Friday 4-Sep-2009 12:00 PM But Sony "wouldn't make direct comparisons" between consoles

Sony believes that the PlayStation 3 will "significantly outpace" the PS2 in terms of lifecycle, SCE Europe boss Andrew House has said.

Speaking in an interview with our print cousins at Edge, House said that the extra functionality of its current-gen console would inevitably see it last longer in the shops.

"If you look at the PS2, still in some markets going very strong, especially in North America in its tenth year on the market, we still can't predict where that lifecycle will end," he told Edge.

"I have a theory that with successive generations, and with more value added and built into the console in terms of experience - and let's not forget that the PS2 really didn't offer a tremendously robust network experience - that what you effectively do is potentially lengthen that lifecycle more and more as you get to the next iteration.

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I wonder if this is possible

no 2nd/3rd place console EVER sells for such a long time

yea i read this earlier, dont c it happening though

http://computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=222630

link is here, its not letting me EDIT the post 1

I don't think either Sony or MS will be rushing out the next console for quite a while.

I do think the PS3 will be around for a while, i don't see why there will be any change to that anyway! But i doubt that the console is going to sell anywhere near what the last two have done... Maybe close to PS1 levels but PS2 levels are a long lost dream now!

TO be honest it would be foolish to launch a new console be it with Sony, MS or even nintendo. it would ruin the current work of things.

the gaming industry is unpredictable, you never know what will happen.

Sony can forget about repeating the PS2's succes and if they keep making such claims then they will go back to being an load arrogant company in my book. The PS2 really grew with the Eyetoy and other mainstream applications. But that market is currently on the Wii, I do believe that in a few years people will want another gadget and Natal/PS-Wand will be the next best thing. But then they still have to win the competition with Microsoft and the xbox devision is saving up resources to release that with a big marketing campaign. And after that there will be the next Nintendo console so lastgen Sony was the only one that tried to get the casual gamer now all three are doing their best.

Not bluttay likelay!

If Sony actually believe that they're in for a massive disappointment.