{"id":1298,"date":"2011-04-25T11:55:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T09:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2011-04-25T11:55:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T09:55:02","slug":"new-wii-in-2012-ps-xbox-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2011\/04\/25\/new-wii-in-2012-ps-xbox-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Wii 2 in 2012, Playstation and Xbox in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The end of this unusually long console cycle is visible, with Nintendo today announcing that the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13772_3-20056950-52.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20&amp;dlvrit=142337\">Wii successor is coming in 2012<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/#!5794000\/microsoft-and-sony-targeting-2014-for-new-consoles-leaving-nintendo-in-the-clear\">Sony and Microsoft &#8220;sources&#8221; saying that they are holding out until 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still an interesting time: now that the traditional 5-year console cycle <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13772_3-20023926-52.htm?tag=mncol;txt\">is no longer set in stone<\/a>, what will happen? Is there room for another console cycle based on (technically) better graphics? Will physical distribution go away? Is AAA development sustainable?<\/p>\n<p>As I like to point out, budgets have traditionally been doubling for every console generation, but exponential growth cannot continue indefinitely. If the PS4 has graphic capabilities that require a doubling of budgets, how many <em>Red Dead Redemption<\/em>*2 games will investment money be willing to support? And if there are only few games that exploit a PS4 properly, will people buy one? And if too few consoles are sold, how will platform holders recoup their investment?<\/p>\n<p>The sound you hear is from an army of analysts working their spreadsheets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of this unusually long console cycle is visible, with Nintendo today announcing that the Wii successor is coming in 2012; Sony and Microsoft &#8220;sources&#8221; saying that they are holding out until 2014. Still an interesting time: now that the traditional 5-year console cycle is no longer set in stone, what will happen? Is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2011\/04\/25\/new-wii-in-2012-ps-xbox-2014\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wii 2 in 2012, Playstation and Xbox in 2014&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}