Twitch TV co-founder Emmett Shear believes Sony and Microsoft will have to drastically change their approach to hardware in the future if they hope to survive.
"The problem is, the seven-year upgrade lifecycle doesn’t work in the face of the two-year upgrade cycles for every other hardware platform," Shear told The Guardian. "It’s so intrinsically built into how consoles get manufactured and made and the full business model, that I’d be surprised to see another generation."
According to the Twitch boss, the future of gaming hardware will be akin to set top boxes with an upgrade cycle similar to that of smartphones and tablets. "They’re going to have to change form," he added. "You can already see this on both Xbox and PlayStation where there’s a tighter upgrade loop for both the operating systems and the games."
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