No.NINTENDOMINATION.

well if they wanna win they gotta bring something original for there next console besides online gaming so they can appeal to the mass, nintendo is doing it, Sony has done it.. its Microsoft turn to appeal to these people

Second place is good enough for Microsoft. They beat Nintendo last generation. This generation they are beating Sony. Second place never felt so good.

Probably not

Only when M$ is continuing with buying everyone and everything especially Japan Devs.

The advantage from Nintendo or Sony is that they have also people in Japan who are buying their products.

Sony is getting stronger every month now and when the US people notice that they play the same game over and over again(Hi Halo,CoD and every other shooter) they will switch maybe too.

Last generation very few people would have thought Nintendo would be first this generation so anything is possible.

Might as well ask if Sony will ever again have the best selling console in a generation.

Until somebody knocks off Nintendo, all bets are off...

Although, if either MS or Sony ever gets out, the remaining competitor will probably beat Nintendo, since the HD twins combined do.

Hm, I highly doubt that'd happen.

First, consider that the HD consoles are slightly boosted by multiple owners (PS3 + 360). Even if this is only 3% of the group, that's over a million consoles.

Second, consider how much money the HD consoles lost combined to compete with the Wii. The 360 lost about 2 billion (?), the PS3 lost somewhere in the 4-6 billion range. Combined that's like 6-8 billion? Can MS or Sony afford losses that huge?

Third, MS does not have access to all of Sony's audience, and vice versa. Unless Sony manages to grab Fable, Halo, and Gears on their systems, or MS grabs Gran Turismo, God of War and others, not everyone will purchase the remaining competitor. Besides, if Sony or MS drops out and their IP's go third party, there's a chance they will end up on Nintendo's consoles, making it even more impossible...

Finally, we don't yet even know if the HD consoles will finish ahead of the Wii.

You are right but I think that most of that 6-8billion were lost because of the competiton between sony and microsoft not against nintendo.

For example Sony spent at first a lot of money developing the cell-processor trying to compete against X360 in the graphical department, not against Wii, then sony had to lose money underselling ps3 because of 360's lower price.

You mean they took the online gaming that was already existing for PC gamers, stuck a price tag on it, and designed it for consoles.

The Wii is likely to take it.