Iwata comments on Wii successor and 3rd party support...

[Mr Khan]

Khuutra said:

Pyro as Bill said:

MS and Sony have to be concerned at the possibility that their next home console gets '3DSed' by Wii2 like the PSP2 did.

One of the only ways to go against that would be to try to launch their consoles in a comparable or earlier timeframe.

I wonder how many consoles we'll see announced next year. I already expect Nintendo's next, but would Sony and Microsoft tip their hands so early after launching Move and Kinect?

Move and Kinect are far less serious investments on the part of either of them than they're making them appear. EyeToy looked like a serious investment in its day, too, but it never became a kingpin of the PS2 experience

These late-term peripherals are defensive actions primarilly, especially in Sony's case, while they cook up something that they can really steal marketshare with, but necessitates a new console for both.