Why the 10-year plan is feasible...

[HappySqurriel]

Pristine20 said:

HappySqurriel said:

You can make all the reasons why the 10 year plan might possibly work, but the reality is that the only systems to (really) survive past the beginning of the next generation were the market leaders. The reason for this is simple, the market leader has value beyond its processing power and features because of its large library and solid support from third party publishers.

 

 This gen is quite different from the previous gens. Upgrades have primarily been about power boosts. Thats not the priority anymore. Ps3 is said to be "over-engineered" for  this gen's standards even. Don't you think perhaps, this engineering is what was meant for next-gen...just a thought. This is why, regardless of it's position at this time the black monster would most likely be sticking around even when nintendo releases a more powerful console to catch up with current standards.

Why would Nintendo bother catching up to "Current Standards"?

Nintendo will (most likely) release their next system in 2011/2012 which means that the top of the line systems of today will be as inexpensive to manufacture as the Wii was at launch; on top of this the success of the Wii will translate into developers realizing that they don't have to push the limits of a system in order to be successful, so there will be no need to limit processing power to keep development cost in-check.

Basically, you're argument is similar to saying "If Microsoft included a 100GB hard-drive in the original Zune, it would still be a viable system in 2010 regardless of what Apple comes up with"