| dolemit3 said: See for yourself: Generation 5 had five main competitors: Atari Jaguar, 3D0, Playstation, Sega Saturn, and Nintendo 64. Generation 6 had four entries: Dreamcast, Playstation 2, GameCube, and Xbox. Generation 7 currently has three consoles: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and Wii.
It looks like we will end up with only two consoles in the next generation and my guess will be: Wii 2 and Nextbox with Sony taking sometime off and will probably simply shuffle the PS3 into a slimmer model. The decrease in the number of consoles is probably due to skyrocketing cost of participating in the console race -- we are talking billions of dollars with a very high risk of big losses. |
If you're going to count the Jaguar and 3D0 then you should count the Vii as well...
Anyway, Dreamcast was a failed console (in terms of sales :P) so we can hardly count that
Saturn also failed
3D) and Jaguar flopped hard
gen 3 - 1 main competitor
Gen 4 - 2 main competitors
Gen 5 - 2 main competitors
Gen 6 - 3 main competitors
Gen 7 - 3 main competitors
So the pattern is
1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 ...
