Eat Sleep Play founder David Jaffe anticipates there'll be one more traditional home console generation before other platforms take over the market.

"I think there will be another console cycle," the ex-God of War producer told IGN. "I think there will be really big f***ing games for them. I'm just guessing, but I think the next generation of consoles will be the last of that current form of console, where you go to a store and buy your $60 games.


"When you play a game, you get one of two things or both," he added. "You either get amazing gameplay, amazing experience and immersion, or you get both. The gameplay, which is the most important thing, the consumers have shown they don't care where they get it.

"They'll get it on their iPhone, on their old mobile phone playing Snake, World of Warcraft, or Call of Duty. Gameplay travels very easily. The spectacle doesn't, you have to be on the high-end consoles for those."

Jaffe also speculated that platform holders like Sony might run their software businesses using the cloud.

"I think we've just gotten conditioned to think that games have to be a certain length and that's coming from the business model. But I think that business model, with the exception of a certain few games, needs to go away. And I think it'll happen, I just don't know when. But I would say, yes, 'Xbox 720,' 'PlayStation 4' I think we're done after that.

"I'm not saying Onlive or Gaikai are the companies. I'm not saying it's Steam. I don't know how you get it, but I don't think you get it as an exclusive disc that goes to a certain piece of hardware. Maybe Sony launches their kind of cloud-based OnLive system, and maybe in that system you've got some exclusive big games."

Just Cause developer Avalanche told CVG last week that it's "prepared" for any sudden announcement of a successor to the Xbox 360, while THQ CEO Brian Farrell said last October that new consoles are the "last thing" the industry needs.