Apple is going to take a shot at the handheld market with their Iphone, but other then that, don't look for new contenders. There arn't many corparations in the world right now that have the free capital to gambel in the very fickel vidoe game market, and those that do have seen what happened to those who tried in the last 3 generations.
The only companys that have had sustained sucess in the market place are nintendo and sony, and even those juggernuts have hit some very rough patches. I conced that MS could be added to this list, but i am hesatant to do so untill they make enough to pay the X Box's debt load.
On the other side of the coin we have Jaguar, 3DO ,CDi, Turbografix 16, Sega Cd, 32X, Saturn and Dreamcast. I'm sure i missed a few but you get the point, new comers don't often fair well, and even if you do suceed at first, you could still fail horribly.
Just to be clear, i'm not bashing ANYTHING here, just making the point that consols are an expensive and very risky venture.







