I am wondering about one thing in the videogaming industry: when a console generation ends, the company which sold the most just gives up this userbase and starts from zero. in earlier generations, this was quite understandable, because the graphics improved so much that it really became time upgrading. but i think the sixth generation reached a point were we can say graphics are good enough. x360 and ps3 show us that it could be better, but i think what the sixth generation offers reaches to make games look good.
now my question is: what would have happenend if sony said "we are not going to release a new console until, lets say 2010." At fist, this seems stupid, but when i think about it, it seems to me as if this would have destroyed nintendo (at least in the consoles sector, they would still have had the ds) and would have made microsoft lose even more money.
I think if it would have happened, third parties would just have sticked with the ps2 and consumers would have been happy as well, because they could have used their system much longer then they expected.
this question also becomes interesting at the end of this seventh generation, because most likely the three competitors won't release their new systems at the same time.
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