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Originally Posted by hmich176
Unless the PS4 does extraordinarily well, I don't think there will be a PS5. Between the new generation of consoles probably going another 5-8 years, and the talk of Sony being broken up into separate units...I think it's unlikely.
I also think this is the end for consoles.
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I don't see this as the end of consoles at all. Twitter/Facebook/blogs are all very negative places for people to bitch, piss, and moan, complain, and try to put up crappy zingers like pictures of VCRs, etc and yell "OMG XBOX1".
I'm both surprised, and not surprised by the reaction to the xbox. Of course people are going to crap all over it. It's what they do. But I'm surprised at the specific complaints.
Backwards compatibility is really only beneficial in the first 6-12 months of a console. Sure you may play an old game every once in a while, but 99% of the time, you're playing your new games/current gen games.
People are screaming about the games. It's a few weeks shy of a big gaming expo, you'll see some games there. Of course they're going to highlight sports and Call of Duty titles. That's what sells. Those are the big guns. Launch of a console is also a good time to create strong relationships with developers, which is essential to the life of a console.
Personally, I have zero interest in Kinect and voice commands. It's not for me, but I get that it's popular with the kids and families. They showed off that tech and the new features of the xbox, items that make it a selling point for a new system, differentiate it from the 360 and it's competition.