Nintendo - What next in the console market?

[ilovetogame]

yeah darc requiem is right. sony loves to say how ps3 is a ten year cycle but i don't really understand why people believe this because thats only possible if your console dominates the market so much that people will still be buying games for it well into the next generation. this is only possible for wii in this generation. the ps3 will be dead as soon as the next gen systems come out in about 5 years cuz its gonna have either the lowest user base or be only barely in front of 360. and mr wibbly even if the wii did magically slow down in 2 years while the other systems sped up sales the wii would already have about a 20 million unit lead on 360 and probably 25 million on ps3, in two years it'll be impossible for either of the other systems to catch up this gen even if the wii starts sell next to nothing like the ps3 is now.

and this whole future proof thing is just laughable. as someone already said the power of the system has nothing to do with how long it will last. success is what makes a system last. the ps3/360 won't even be close to successful when compared to the wii. i mean the xbox lasted 4 years but it was the most powerful system... according to your idea of future proof shouldn't the xbox still be selling well an not the ps2 since the ps2 was the least powerful system last gen?

also i don't know why people think saturation of hdtv's is directly proportional to sales of 360/ps3 systems. its not like people actually think "oh well now that i have a hd tv i have to buy one of the hd systems and not the wii simply because they are hd." ya know the wii still plays on hdtv's, its not like it doesn't work on them. people are gonna buy the system they want, not just buy whatever system corresponds to whatever type of tv they have.

as long as wii keeps getting good games and 3rd parties actually start putting effort into wii games instead of just throwing crap onto the system the wii is gonna dominate on the level of ps2 or close to it.