Dammit technology!

I can understand the desire for game developers and those in the computer/console industry to live on the cutting edge of technology and to constantly push themselves over that edge; I mean hell, this stuff is cool and keeps getting cooler. But by always striving to live on the frontier of technology developers aren't giving us less financially stable gamers enough time to catch up. This is especially true for PC gamers, like myself, who must upgrade their system almost annually just to play new games, that is if they want the game to look like it wasn't made 5 years ago. Would it really be so bad if the technology industry paced itself a little more like the tortoise and less like the hare? That might sound crazy to some, but maybe it would buy us some more time before the robot apocalypse...