How will Wii counter Natal, 360+, MS Moneyhatting Ways and Press Bias?

[Shanobi]

They needn't do anything.

Seriously, even if Natal comes out, that's a year and a half from now for Nintendo to cruise ahead. When it comes out, IF it comes out, that puts it right at the end of the 360's life, as we'll probably be seeing the 720, or whatever they call it, by then.

What 3rd parties are going to jump into developing new games, for yet another new interface that looks very complicated to learn, with no guarantee that Microsoft will even be able to sell more than a couple of million of these? Then who buys what games, out of those couple of million? Could any title really sell well enough to justify jumping into that boat?

The argument against the wii that xbox fans always use is that the non-hardcore "don't buy" many games. If that were to be held against the xbox with it's much higher production costs for games, is that really some tantalizing field that publishers want to flock to?

People really aren't looking at this realistically, at all. It's cool tech, but it's just tech. Sort of like how the PS3 has cool tech, but it doesn't translate to being the be all end of all of sales. Nobody really cares.