Hard Drive Installs Take 2: The future and the present motivations for MS.

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chuckd said:
Now think about how nice that would be for a second. Now say goodbye. The next generation of consoles are not going to be cutting edge high end machines. They'll be more powerful than this gen, of course, but I doubt that MS or Sony is going to want to absorb billions of dollars of losses again just to watch Nintendo crush them with a money making cheaper piece of hardware.

JMO

Exactly, but that will backfire too. Video games has always been a market that punishes conservitive design i.e. "more of the same" type of designs.

These systems won their gen by innovation

Atari 2600 - Removable Cartridge Media and Nonintegrated controllers

NES - Reopening a market thought to have been dead by strict games quality contol

SNES - Mode 7 Graphics along with extreme 1st party game quality.

PS1 - First Mainstream Optical System and First 3D games

PS2 - First System with True multimedia function and Backwards Compatiblity

Wii - First Mainstream system to have a motion controlled default controller with a focus on gameplay over graphics.