Originally Posted by KingFoamNYC
I know and with that said hopefully the 7, 8 year life cycle of this gen will make the next gen so much better . Remember the jump from PS1 and N64 to Dreamcast and then PS2? That's how a gen jump should be and hopefully that's what it will be in 2012 or 2013
Not quite following you, since Dreamcast doesn't fit in your equation as it's from the first party of Sega.
Between Sony's PS1 [1994] and PS2 [200
, that's roughly a 6-year window.
Between Nintendo's N64 [1996] and GameCube [2001], that's roughly a 5-year window.
If you're just generally speaking on the timeframe between all consoles, that's barely anything to take into consideration.
These first parties aren't communicating with each other like, "Hey, how about you guys release your Dreamcast after our N64?"
Rule of thumb that critics are following is an average of a 6-year window between generations.
With the Xbox 360 released in Nov. 2005 and both the PS3 and the Nintendo Wii released in Nov. 2006,
that projects people's estimate as 2011 - 2012 to be the arrival of the next gaming generation.
With that projection, all 3 major first parties [Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo] have all officially commented that they have plans of prolonging this currentgeneration past 2012.
This is, of course, excluding any possible plans of handheld gaming that's currently out right now or currently in the works @ the moment.