So easy somehow only Nintendo can figure it out.

The consoles use arcitecture that hardly differs from PC.  Last gen it was COMPLETELY different.  Hard to emulate. 

I think the most interesting part of the article is that he is suggesting that they could release the next gen consoles after less than the usual 5 year time frame.

Have fun waiting for Sony to release their stream service so you can stream previously bought PSN games from your PS3 to PS4.  Not sure what the hell Microsoft is going to do about the previously bought Live games.  The only thing I know is that I was able to do a system transfer from my Wii to Wii U and transfer all my previously bought WiiWare and VC games onto my Wii U day 1.  I suppose you can keep the 360 or PS3 hooked up to your TV along with your new system. 

Just saying I would be pissed to not be able to transfer all my previously bought games from online marketplace to my new console.

Every generation there's an article about this and every generation people seem to be surprised..

but... shouldn't they be paying their hardware teams to just sit around???

[Insert joke about Nintendo's philosophies being backward here]

Why does these threads keep on popping up? It's a know fact already.

Obvious is obvious. We won't see a new console from Sony or MS for at least 5 or 6 years. (I think this console cycle will be shorter than the 7th gen cycle)

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