I guess it's pretty easy ... you could like... put electronic tags on each console in a shop so you would get an update if any of them were moved! Fairly easy job to monitor those tags!

Isn't that considered stalking? Haha

only if you get personal info on it... unless you consider all gps and gps enabled devices to be stalking.

"I swear, your honor, it was just for market research! I didn't attach a tracking device to that woman's console because I wanted to know where she lived, I promise!"

"I just wanted to find one other Japanese person to add to my Xbox Live friends list...."

Whats up with the US market its almost in every aspect below Europe and Japan now?

I would also make kinect activate as soon as it is energized just to see the woman is safe.

loll who's that 1 person in Japan that bought a 360 xD

He listened when Don Mattick said which console to buy.

Perhaps holidays 2019, the PS2 was in a unique position, it had 75% marketshare, Sony were the entire (relevant) market in essence. With the PS3 and 360, the gen dragged on more due to rising development costs and the incentive to stay on longer to make up for costly R&D as well backing new formats (the format wars raged for the first two years of the PS3's life). It was a fairly major shift in video game development, with digital and even streaming becoming more and more of a thing, consoles will likely become less static products and they need to emulate, to some extent, the market driving forces in consumer electronics in general, doubly so since they have more non-gaming features than ever.

I think the PS4 will live a shorter life than both PS2 and PS3, easily, and the decline will be a lot faster as well, simply due to the less static nature of the market compared to 10-15 years back.