GHG
Gold Member
You are right, industry want stable environment and make save bet.
Holding industry back it not appropriate statement, let me adjust. This new way is holding invention or tech breakthrough back.
The opposite could be true actually (in theory at least) as bringing out new hardware more frequently would mean it gets new technology onto the market faster. It also allows the console manufacturers to maintain a higher margins per unit on the newer higher priced consoles which should mean more money for R&D.
Or on the flip side they could just become like Apple where after they have enough people locked in they stop being innovative and simply iterate for the sake of higher profit margins...
If it does happen it will be interesting to see how it unfolds at the very least.