7. There Are More High Profile Games On The Way
Warner Bros. Interactive/ActivisionBudget bin treasures aside, the future release schedules are still dotted with a number of massive titles on the way for previous generation systems. Naturally we'll be hearing far more about the Xbox One/PS4 variants, but you'll notice that plenty of these high profile games will have a little Xbox 360 or PS3 logo tucked away in the corner of the marketing material. Often their presence on the legacy consoles is a huge selling point - the new consoles have sold well considering the timeframe, but it will be a long time before they can compete with the install base of the last generation. And if you're a publisher, in this industry of tight margins and insane development and marketing costs, you need to shift volumes. Right now the only way to do that is to slap your bigger games on as many consoles as possible. Hell, sometimes even the Nintendo Wii U gets a chance. 2014 has a couple of heavy hitters lined up, annual feasts like Call Of Duty and FIFA, a new Battlefield, Far Cry 4, and the eagerly anticipated Destiny to name a few. This is hardly the release schedule of a dead console. There are signs of life all the way into 2015 too, and while it's to be expected that things will taper off fairly quickly from next year on, that's still a solid lineup to keep your ageing console alive.