It's hard to speak of dominance now only because of how the Wii has shown just how unpredictable things can get, especially with the future of videogame interactivity largely unwritten.
I would say the largest thing in Nintendo's favour now is brand name recognition. The exact same thing that Sony relied on to sell the PS3 inspite of it's incredibly high cost and slow game library. If anything, the continued success of the PS3 is proof of just how powerful brand recognition and loyalty are. And next Gen, it's in Nintendo's Camp.
However, where we tend to think of this sort of brand recognition in terms of console buyers, it's most important for third party developers. This gen they all bet on the HD consoles and locked their biggest and best games and franchises in to them. Next gen only a complete idiot would dare ignore the Nintendo console, and provided their power is remotely comperable, only a completer idiot would leave the Nintendo console out of multiplats.
So if the successor to last gen's most popular console maintains a unique or interesting variety of interactive gameplay, while combining some of the best and most recognizable first party software in the business with a proportionate helping of major third party efforts, it's hard to see how it could do anything less than sell a crap load of hardware.
I'm a mod, come to me if there's mod'n to do.
Chrizum is the best thing to happen to the internet, Period.
Serves me right for challenging his sales predictions!
Bet with dsisister44: Red Steel 2 will sell 1 million within it's first 365 days of sales.
