Microsoft och Sony pratade redan tidigt i generationen om att det nu skulle bli tal om i alla fall tio års livstid för konsolerna. Och mycket riktigt har vi nu haft den längsta generationen någonsin. Men några som inte är imponerade är Square Enix, raka motsatsen snarare. De kallar beslutet för Microsofts och Sonys sämsta - någonsin - i en Games Industry-intervju.
"We have Sony and Microsoft talking about this generation lasting 7,8,9 or even 10 years and it's the biggest mistake they've ever made.", säger Julien Merceron, vars titel är technology director på Square Enix.
Merceron utvecklar sitt resonemang: "This generation has been way too long, and I say this because you have a lot of developers that work on a new platform, and perhaps will not succeed, so they will wait for the next generation, and will jump on that platform. You could not do that with this generation though. So these developers went elsewhere to see if the grass was greener."
Något som Merceron menar biodragit till att döda konsolerna: "They found web browsers, they found iOS, they found other things and a lot of them won't come back to the hardware platforms," he predicted. "So you could look at it that thanks to Microsoft and Sony and the length of this generation, it helped the emergence of other platforms and helped them get strong before the next hardware comes out."
Vad tycker Gamereactors läsare om långa generationer? Bra eller anus?
