Don, I am pretty sure the pattern has been every 7 years, for next gen cosoles...
True. However, Sony is still supporting the PS2 and they count that as part of the lifespan of the console. In contrast, if you consider one generation "dead" as soon as the next generation is released, then the lifespan is far shorter. Personally, I consider the PS2 and Xbox to be at end-of-life for the purposes of what we are talking about here, even though I know they are still quite active.
ShaterMcgee said:
I started out as a console gamer, and a rather hardcore one at that. I was one of the first people to buy the 32-bit adapter for the Sega (the Sega 32X) so I could play
Doom as soon as it was released. Man that was awesome! I played until the wheels feel off the wagon. I was also one of the handful of people who owned the Sega CD and the Atari Jaguar.
I was still playing on the Jaguar when I got my first computer, which a friend taught me how to build with parts we bought at a computer show in New York. Since then I've primarily been a PC gamer, however, I own an Xbox 360 and use that for sports games and few specialty titles which play better on the console than on the PC (
Dead Space, for example). We also have a Wii and a PSP here in the house, but those aren't my kind of games so I rarely touch either.