Next-Gen Console Lifespan? (PS4 and Xbox One)

[Arwin]

The GaiKai model I remain very skeptical about. I think we'll see a next generation yet - we've far from tapped out. What will be interesting is to see if something like VR take off. This needs even more power and requires even less latency.

I am also still skeptical about the server side resources needed. I expect in the end the cloud will blend with clients, not one way or the other exclusively. PS4 will become a GaiKai streaming server itself above everything, and game streaming will be limited at first to demos and backward compatibility.

I will be surprised if we get much further than that this gen, and it's applicability will be to secondary devices more than the consoles themselves.

 

[DieH@rd]

Does any sane person really believe that a 1,3 TF console could have a 10 years lifespan?

Yes. But successor will come after ~6 years...

 

[DJ12]

Did any sane person think a 0.5 tf console would have a 7-8 year life cycle?

Until Samsung decide to release and subsidise the enormous cost of releasing a flops beast then we will stick to what Sony and ms think we deserve.