rocketpig said:
steven787 said:
Snesboy said:
That's the stupidest controller I have ever seen. And I remember when the "Rev-mote" was first shown |
It is a joke.
On topic: 5-6 years is plenty but I think it is a mistake. Graphics are good enough for consoles, they need to focus on recouping all their previous losses. Continue making great games for 360, release a new style with MUCH bigger hard drive and Wireless N with a 10/100/1000 port. Speed up Live. If they do a fully new console, it will fail.
Why stop now?
360 sells 120k plus a week... if they drop the price to 250 for the theoretical package above and throw-in some 360 classics (GoW, Halo3, whatever 3 year old game they want to pack in) in 2010 that will be 30 million in sales a week. Plus controller number 2 = 6 million. Games 1 million a week * 8 (figure they make $8 off of lisencing, a number I pulled out of my ass) = ~8 million
44 million every week in revenue * 56 (52 weeks in a year, modest double 4 weeks for holidays) =
2.5 Billion a year revenue, low estimate.
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If they release in 2011 and no more huge blunders happen, the 360 will be seeing its fourth year of profit out of six.
That's plenty of time and in 3 1/2 years, those graphics are going to look awfully stale compared to PC hardware. It will be time for a hardware refresh with Blu-ray, uncompressed sound, 1080p, etc etc etc.
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My guess is that Nintendo will be there in Time. It makes strategic sense. And no the Wii will not "die" and Nintendo will support it for quite some time ;)
