What the Next 30 Years Will Hold for 360, PS3 and Wii Owners

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What the Next 30 Years Will Hold for 360, PS3 and Wii Owners

Interesting advice for collectors.

Polygon wrote:

We look to the past to predict what your games, systems and communities will be worth in the future.

A generation is a funny thing. It has no clear beginning and no clear end, but we can all tell when one is on the rise or when one is fading away.

And this generation of game consoles ? a golden age that has redefined interactive storytelling, catapulted gaming into the cultural mainstream and sold an unprecedented 250 million machines ? has begun the process of fading away.

But generations overlap. They blur together over the course of years, and it's a sure bet that the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii will remain viable and even profitable well into the near future.

Exactly what will this future look like? How long will new games still be published? How long will each system's online networks be supported? How long until these consoles and their games become valuable collector's items?

After extensive research into the life cycles of past console generations, we're prepared to make some educated guesses.

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