Next-gen console war: The verdict by mcvuk.com

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naznatips said:

Dolla Dolla said:

MikeB said:

Half a year ago I predicted XBox 360 sales will not top 40 million. I think a Wii HD may be released before the Wii reaches a 40 million install base as well.

I fail to see any merit in what the article points out. Why are you quick to believe that Nintendo would sacrifice this generation by killing off the Wii so soon with a new console? That doesn't make ANY sense. At all. Not even a little. Technical prowess and horsepower of a console have NEVER been the deciding factor in the console wars.

We'll have a better view this holiday season, no need to continue waiting for the PS3 saviors. What are they now? MGS4 and GT5? FFXIII won't arrive till holiday 08 the earliest, and in Japan no less. NA and EU won't see that game till 09.

Show us this huge market shift that's going to occur.

Exactly. In fact, there is only once in history that the strongest console one the generation and that's the SNES. Even then it won because it was priced cheaper not because of it's power. The last two generations the weakest console one. The PSone was vastly weaker than the N64 and Saturn. The PS2 was weaker than the Dreamcast, the GC, and the Xbox.

If anyone in this industry is financially savvy it's Nintendo. They know how to make money. They made more money on the GC than Sony did on the PS2 despite the PS2 selling 5 times as much. Do people really think Nintendo is going to suddenly forget how they make money? Cutting a console's lifespan short while it's making record breaking sales numbers wouldn't make sense and it's not something Nintendo would do.

 The Neo-Geo was the strongest, so even that gen, the strongest didn't win.