Honestly I think Microsoft planted the rumour about the next X-Box coming in 2015. I know for a fact that in like 09 Microsoft began hiring staff to work on a next gen Halo title, now some say that it was Reach but why did they call it next gen if Reach launched on 360.
I think Nintendo will launch in winter 2012. Now I'd think Microsoft would launch the following winter. With PS4 coming possibly as late as 2015 just so that Sony manages to make PS3 profitable and make up for all the losses they took early this gen.
As for power, some saying the next Nintendo console could be 720P or on par with PS3/360. That is possible but Nintendo would be in an awkward position. Sure for the year or so it had no competition titles could be ported from 360/PS3. But once 720/PS4 come , Nintendo would be in the same software predicament they are in right now. Where porting titles is very complicated.
I suspect Nintendo to do a DreamCast, no not go down in flames. Launch a powerful new console a year before the competition. This console is powerful enough to be considered next gen but not a super computer. Then Microsoft would play Sony's part entering their 720 (PS2) and Sony would follow later on with PS4 (GC/X-Box).
Nintendo has spent apparently like half a billion dollars a year on R&D. They should be able to give us a far superior system to PS3/360 for the cheap price of 250$. The question is how much will this innovation cost? Nintendo says the console will allow developers to do something they couldn't do on any other platform. How much will that cost I wonder.
OT: I'm glad to see the majority heck I haven't found a single user that thinks Wii2 could come in 2015. Heck not even MS fans think Microsoft could wait that long. Though some have suggested Sony.
-JC7
"In God We Trust - In Games We Play " - Joel Reimer
