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It definetely helps.  Imagine if the dreamcast had been stomped by sony the day it came out. Would have been even worse.  The 360 would have sold far fewer consoles without the on year headstart.  And again the Wiiu would be less attractive if they didn't have the one year extra lead time on game development. Think it would have done worse had it not come a year early.