Sentences with phrase «traditional console cycle»

Upcoming projects like a reported Super Mario movie (animated, thank God) and a Nintendo theme park also indicate the company may finally be finding effective ways to strengthen its brand outside the bounds of traditional console cycles.

To sum up, this move is all about ending traditional console cycles and moving to evolutionary ones where each new system plays the same games, runs the same OS and carries over your digital services.

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.

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.

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.

While Microsoft and Sony each faced the harsh inevitability of the traditional console cycle, things were very different in an industry that draws a lot of parallels with consoles.

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.

But by the same token, they are also proof the traditional console cycle, predicated on dramatic jumps in visual fidelity, is on the way out.