However, thanks to my recent purchase of a PS4 Pro, my kids now have a shiny hand - me - down PS4 to call their own and due to the nature of the current
console cycle going online with the PS4 is almost unavoidable.
Not exact matches
You're
going to get better game experiences from mid-generation jumps like this, ultimately, so stop thinking about your «investment» in an original PS4 or Xbox One and start paying more mind to the developers and artists who, every
console cycle, desperately want to realize their visions but are always shackled in one form or another by hardware which (nowadays) is underpowered from the second it launches.
«The life
cycles of these
consoles is incredible, to be fair, and it's hard to say where they're
going to
go and what trends are
going to take off,» he continues, «and that's for both fans and the industry.
I'm not sure I can
go through another sell / buy
console cycle... it's just rough.
I am plowing through game after game on the 360 because I missed out on a lot at the beginning of the
console cycle, but I keep
going back to my Wii to play Brawl every so often.
Melee,
went on to be the best selling GameCube game every single year of the
console's life
cycle, so by no means was the series unpopular.
900p
going to become the norm for both X1 / PS4 as these
consoles reach the tail end of their respective
cycles, may as well get used to it.
Launch titles are a part of the
cycle of launching a new
console, and that's not
going to change anytime soon if ever.
However, this is not
going to happen in the next seven to eight years, which is the typical life
cycle of a home
console.
Nintendo seems to be
going in - between the traditional
console release
cycles and offering up a unique experience that can't be matched.
Considering the late stages of the current
console cycle, and the sixteen months since Crackdown 2
went gold, Ruffian's next project could likely make its first public debut at E3 2012 in Los Angeles.
Says Zynga VP Hugh de Loayza, «A standard
console game developer, if he has a 30 - year life
cycle, he's
going to get out maybe 15 titles, and that's it.
'' This is the last real
console cycle, I don't mean that Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo will
go bankrupt and shut down — they will not.
Nintendo occasionally fixes a flaw - they added keyboard support, let you reboot a frozen Wii U without unplugging the
console, ameliorated long load times with a quickstart menu, and started selling a replacement battery that lasted more than three hours - but at this point in the Wii U's life
cycle it's probably safe to assume that they have fixed everything they're
going to.
Yeah, our development
cycles aren't too long so and I have no idea how long this
console generation really is
going to last, but, yeah, there's no doubt it should be in this
console generation for sure.»
Then again, if the iterative
console cycle proves more successful for Sony and Microsoft, maybe we'll see
consoles go the way of smartphones and new systems are closer than we think.
Two
console cycles in a row as the profoundly weaker alternative isn't
going to win them many new converts.
All the old rules about
consoles — the fact that they enjoyed five - to - eight - year life
cycles, the fact that games «just worked» out of the box — they're all
gone.