Will Wii U pull MS/Sony to early launch or push to a late launch...

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sergiodaly said:

gergroy said:
I would say that Wii U sales numbers won't actually have much of anything to do with the launch of the nextbox or ps4. As it is, I believe both Microsoft and Sony will release their next systems in late 2013 regardless of what Wii U's sales are. Both of their systems have started to hit their decline, so they need to release a new system in 2013 anyway.

chances are that next box and PS4 will be sold at a loss... PS3 and Xb360 sell at profit right now... if Wii U flop hard, they might milk this gen a little bit more... lots of AAA, quality wise and dev cost wise, games still to come in HD twins that will need legs to be profitable... so even 3rd party devs want to squize a little bit more the HD twins...

but it still won't magically decrease initial production costs.

Because they still need to setup the facorites and chances are they already got initial contracts in place for components they need. So those prices are locked in anyway.