If Nintendo (Wii) wins this gen...

[*~Onna76~*]

I haven't read much of this thread as I know for sure 90% of the posts contains flame baits anyway. I'd like to say what I think and that's an "objective opinion".

I don't think the WII will win. I give the WII a lifespan of 2 or 3 years and then the console becomes really outdated and Nintendo needs to come up with another console. Then it depends of how much it will cost Nintendo to create a new console with improved sensor motion (at times they do suck), a harddrive included and High Defenition supported or to say... "next gen".

Around that time it's counterparts Microsoft and Sony Playstation have dropped the price a few times, most likely, so then it really depends on what kind of price tag the "next gen" WII will have and if people around that time are still interested in a new Nintendo console. Perhaps the new console will get a new name and that means... new hardware sales. Unless the name continues to be "WII" then the WII sales might continue from that point. Still if the name will become WII 2, (same with PS, PS2, PS3) Nintendo is starting with new hardware sales while the 360 and PS3 are continueing with their own hardware sales. Considering the fact Sony tells us the PS3 will have a lifespan of about 10 years.

If the recent WII continues to excist for longer, which I highly doubt, then perhaps it will win... but still in the long run I don't think the WII can keep up the sales it has right now. To think all the major Nintendo titles have already been released within a time range of 1,5 - 2 years, while the Gamecube took over 4 years to accomplish that. What will Nintendo have in store then after these 2 years? Another Zelda? Mario Platform? 3rd party developers still as enthusiastic as they are right now?

Of course no one can really predict the future with that, but I think the future of the WII is just as risky as everyone was thinking about the excistence of the WII to begin with.