hi gary, there could be at least another two new consols out or. maybe three, here is an instance cars and computer software is up-dated every 6 - 8 months, software " microsoft " they stop up-dating software every 5 years and then bring out a new version and stop supporting the old version after this time. apple on the other hand is something simular. but they bring fair size up-dates approx every 6-8 months.
car manufactures up-date the same way and once in a blue moon sometimes in the 6-8 months time frame, it's either cosmetic or some modification to the engine or in extremes there is a new car being launched,
so in a 10 year time frame your talking about at least about 3 new versions of a controller. will be out, it again comes down to how you use it, constitily,
fair part of the day, or occasionally. and the software side of things too, how long before the manufacture decides to stop the up-dated for a particular model of controller when a new one comes on the market from the same manufacture.
(i'm not getting at hornby here.) hornby has 2 controllers out, they stop producing the select. then they bring another version of the select out. how long before they stop supporting the old select. the same goes for all manufactures.
john
car manufactures up-date the same way and once in a blue moon sometimes in the 6-8 months time frame, it's either cosmetic or some modification to the engine or in extremes there is a new car being launched,
so in a 10 year time frame your talking about at least about 3 new versions of a controller. will be out, it again comes down to how you use it, constitily,
fair part of the day, or occasionally. and the software side of things too, how long before the manufacture decides to stop the up-dated for a particular model of controller when a new one comes on the market from the same manufacture.
(i'm not getting at hornby here.) hornby has 2 controllers out, they stop producing the select. then they bring another version of the select out. how long before they stop supporting the old select. the same goes for all manufactures.
john