Yes- Eventually they will stop. But you allways have something to fall back to, in terms of the system rich history of backlog games.
No- In the near future no, the console is still number one in the world where software sales exceed that of the next-gen consoles. 2deluxe
Well put. It will eventually happen, no doubt. But when I see these topics, I always think of how long they continued making PS1 consoles and games, which was quite a while even after the PS2 came out. Despite the PS2's runaway success, there continued to be PS1 games for years, and they only just stopped making the console itself in 2006 I think. So the PS1 wasn't really "dead" for a while. But as the PS2's sales figures climbed to where it represented a large enough "installed user base" relative to the PS1, the changeover happened naturally and the newer machine took over.
It's a very different situation this time, though -- and for better or worse, I think it will benefit the PS2 for a longer time. Neither consumers nor developers are embracing the PS3 like they did the PS2, for a variety of reasons. How well and how soon the PS3 can replace the PS2 remains to be seen, and regardless I doubt we'll ever see the kind of games library for it that we've had for the last 2 generations. But how long will it take until the PS3 user base is viewed as being "significant" compared to the PS2's 120 million consoles sold?
The fact that the PS2 console itself keeps selling so ridiculously well, combined with the fact that there are still a lot of games being pumped out for it (esp. in Japan), makes me think the whole changeover process is going to take a lot longer this time around. Until it does, the PS2 is still a really attractive platform for developers who want to sell a ton of games, especially if the game they're making doesn't truly need next-gen hardware.
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