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Microsoft Wants 360 To Have PS2-Like Lifespan
Gamasutra is reporting on comments from Microsoft executive Mindy Mount, reacting to Nintendo's Satoru Iwata and his observations about the modern console life cycle. Mount indicated that the company is looking towards the PlayStation 2's success well into its lifespan for inspiration. "In comments very similar to those made by Iwata, Mount suggested that a rush to create a new generation of consoles was not necessary until there was a compelling hardware feature to justify it. 'At this point from the technological perspective, there are some real advances ... that make it worth having a next-generation console," said Mount. "Right now there aren't that many things on the horizon that you think, wow, that's going to be a game-changer.'"
hahhhahahhahhahhhha *wheeze* hahhhahhahhhhahhaaahhhahahhaahhahahha. Ye fucking gods they can't be serious. Firstly, as long as they force compliance with the 360 core, their games are never going to be as good as they could be. Long term, that's going to be a major irritant to sales. And of course if they drop core, that's going to result in major backlash. Secondly, the PS2 already had the wildly successful PS1 to build upon and was fully backwards compatible. Not so with the 360. It has some backwards compatibility, but not all that much. The newer PS3s don't either, but most of those with the biggest ps2 game collections probably already bought one. Moreover they were able to 4 years later shrink the ps2 to truly miniature proportions, which probably won't be possible in another 2 years with the 360. Then there's the fact that long term is even better for the PS3 simply because more and more peopple will have learned to program for the PS3 architecture by then which leaves the tech advantage to the PS3. With the penetration of the Wii among the cheap and casual market, it's unlikely that MS will be able to emulate the PS1s success, let along the PS2