Extra Life

Extending the Console Generation in an Age of Software Abundance and Hardware Scarcity

An industry strategy whitepaper arguing that the console industry can avoid a slow-motion crash by shifting from reset economics to continuity economics. The paper proposes that the durable center of the console ecosystem should be the customer's account, library, saves, purchases, friends, history, and access rights, supported by extended hardware generations, purchase protection, free basic online play, cross-device entitlements, evergreen first-party catalogues, rapid porting, customer trust, and a Platform Continuity operating model.