Sentences with phrase «of traditional console cycles»

The move to release more consoles with varying features may mark the end of the traditional console cycle, the decades - old tradition of new systems coming out every seven years or so.

Not exact matches

Nintendo continues to merrily separate itself from not only traditional gaming events (it hosted a painfully flat Nintendo Direct at E3 instead of hosting a press conference), but also from the traditional console cycle.

Kotaku adds that regular hardware revisions are likely to become a common occurrence, as Microsoft looks to speed up the traditional five - year console cycle and release games that are backwards compatible with Windows 10 and a skew of Xbox models.

Since it will be the first to show the world what their iterative system is all about, the onus falls on Microsoft to convince those of us who prefer traditional console cycles why we need to buy into iterative machines.

But there has been a wrench in the traditional console cycle this time, and it started last year with the release of the PlayStation 4 Pro.

With both Microsoft and Sony releasing upgraded versions of their consoles this generation, it's natural to wonder what effect this will have on the traditional cycle of wholly new consoles down the line.