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With Sony continually talking about a 10-year lifespan for its PlayStation 3 and Microsoft thinking about a longer lifespan for its Xbox 360, this console generation could perhaps be much longer than most gamers are used to. The systems are powerful and developers still have plenty of room to squeeze even more juice out of the current consoles. According to a Forbes report by former "Game Over" columnist Chris Morris, big name executives are already thinking long-term for this generation.
"One of the things I like about this generation is we are still very early and there's still a lot of room for growth ... as we move down those price curves," said Brian Farrell, CEO of THQ. "Those engines have a lot of steam left in them. We think it could be seven or eight years before new machines start to roll out."
Eight years would put us at 2016, and Epic Games' President Michael Capps believes it could even be as late as 2018, although he gives himself a big window with a guess of "between 2012 and 2018."
While Microsoft and Sony have gone in a similar direction with graphically advanced systems, Nintendo has obviously gone in a very different direction with its Wii and the motion controls that have attracted a more casual audience. But because Nintendo has been so successful, the challenge is even greater for the next console generation. How can Nintendo innovate in a new way to top the Wii?
"Every hardware needs some revolutionary features," Nintendo President Satoru Iwata commented. "This time around, it happened to be we had a revolutionary user interface. Will it be the same for the next generation? I really can't tell. It's natural for the current customer to expect Nintendo is going to once again do something different. If the people are expecting so many different things from Nintendo, it's going to be difficult for us to go beyond that expectation again."
http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/news/no-new-consoles-for-another-8-years/?biz=1
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