Shane, I think the problem is you're looking at this from a traditional point of view. With the 32/64 bit era, a status quo was established, and nobody challenged it in the last gen. If you assume the Xbox was the spiritual successor to the Saturn (sorry, Dreamcast), all of the basic premises can be said about the Saturn/PS1/N64 as can be said about Xbox/PS2/GCN. It was just a continuation. An evolution. It was interesting to watch each of the three companies grow (and sad to see one die), but you were still working with the same basic set of rules. This generation, the rules have changed. Nintendo is currently proving themselves to third parties. The only one that bit was Ubisoft, who are probably going to end the month of May with two different million-seller games which are exclusive to Wii. Can any third parties say that with Sony? (serious question, not a dig)
