Welllll the next Xbox will have magical hardware! It will have enough OMG ram to fit in a framebuffer wiyth 2xmsaa and it will have lots of STFU ram for all the other stuff, probably like 2GB of it so jeep quiet and that WILL be likee lotys of bandweidth so along with that they will havew like 3D glasses and 60FPS rendering as welll ass 1080P to go with that styff., IT WILLL BEW Aweslme!

That's the craziest thing I heard all day  ^___x

Wii is selling like crazy even still, 2012 MAYBE but in 2011 Nintendo will still Printing Moneys.

Can you actually explain how the PS3's somehow more powerful hardware will actually make it sell for longer? Every developer, every publisher, and every gamer will suddenly abandon the 360 and the Wii because on the PS3, they can get a bit more special effects, and better textures?

If there would be a direct relation between horsepower and success, we all know how this generation would have turned.

Erm considering the Wii I can't really. New hardware could pop out tomorrow and be both cheaper and higher performance than the PS3.

i am hoping for more innovation instead of just see more graphical power, natal and motion controlers gives me an idea of how the "new" war of consoles if going to be.

nintendo better not call it a wii 2.. it sounds generic, nintendo always makes creative names for there console.. they should call it super nintendo wii?... you see it sounds cool when you say it lol

As for the power of the PS3 that is pure PR. Blu-Ray is a nice to have, but it has not improved gaming experience to any measurable extent. The Cell Processor isnt much more powerful than the processor in the 360 and is much harder to develop for. Multi-thread programming is perhaps the most difficult programming work to do. Make it so that different cores have different instruction sets makes it even worse. Finally when it comes to GPUs the 360 has a marginally better GPU anyway. Time and time again this generation the 360 has been proven to be the easier to develop for system. Some call this lazy but the better term is less expensive to develop for and development houses know this.

Then it comes to financials and the 360 has been profitable the last 2+ years and has years of profitability left. PS3 has yet to hit profitability. Sony is being put into a situation where they wont see profitability on the PS3 until right before the announcements of next gen consoles.

As for Wii. The only thing I have to say is that the new customer that bought a Wii will not be as easy to convince to upgrade to next gen as the traditional game system customers have been.

Why not? every Nintendo system  comes out every 5 years.

The consumers, not Sony, will decide when it is time for the PS3 to be phased out.

That didn't happen because for some reason, Nintendo has a rule for releasing a console in every five years, but because they all happened to have five years of momentum. The Wii console is a lot more popular than any of them, therefore it has a lot more momentum.