Direct competition over whom? An expanded market? An untapped market? Each others audiences? Could you please clarify, im interested in your perspective here.

the Question would they take that Risk?

we are in a recession right now, not to mention the PS3 an the xbox360 or the Wii has yet to reduce their price point to where say the $149.00 price is, or the $99.00 price point, if the companies were going to release early why not just release ARC and NATAL as a main product to push the next system over these. the big problem aside of most likely Nintendo , is these system's are pretty good system's and people still feel they are too new:

what I mean there is nowhere in the short run that make's sense to release a whole new system when the recession being how it is, people are loosing their house, you cannot play a game console if you have no house to put it in., If anything there will be less of a reason for people to upgrade this soon, many people still think of these system's as still new system's not everyone went out and bought the xbox360 for $299.00 and $399.00 off the batt just lke $499.00 and $599.00 PS3.

since the system's all has downloadable game's , and content what will the new system's have over these system in say a year or two from now that will be such a wide upgrade that would make the developer's drop these system's and go over too the other system's.

not much of an increase are the new systems going to be over these as there are of these system's over the previous system's the leap in the next two year's is not going to great enough at a reduced price that the companies like microsoft or sony or nintendo is going to offer that would dry up the sale's of current machine's.

say if there is new system's get released in 2011

what will the leve of the graphic's be over these current system's, the only one i can see get a big jump would be the Nintendo Wii but then again , that still would be sold for a premium over the cost of the Wii, and the Wii would still be selling.

it's just not worth releasing that soon In my OPINION.

mainly the recession has done that more than anything though.

so when did the generation start for Sony?

because  of another company releases their product first mean's the new generation start's, or how about say i drop support in two year's after I release a system then 2 other companies release their system than I release a whole new system, does that mean a new generation started because i cut my product short?

you see how silly that is

the new generation started for them when they said it does.

because they cannot start a new generartion of playstation with out putting out a new playstation

they are talking about their product.,

what other product are they going to talk about ?

Fine by me, i dont want to buy a new xbox or playstation any time soon.

I think many people feel the same way, Me included..the recession is hitting many people very hard.

with unemployment still very high.

I think, even Sony and Microsoft know that the risk would be pretty high right now to release a whole  new system.

when slight upgrade's like extra harddrive space , pack in more incentive's to buy the current system, you get a boost in sale's without the big risk.

that trend I think is going to keep going, look at how many SKU's there has been released.

 nintendo

sony

microsoft

quite a number of bundle's

Actually Nintendo didn't make the Power Glove.

I'm pretty sure they did make the better working... yet crappy... i forget the name... something force.

It was kinda like Natal in that you control with your hands.

He is of course refering to the old statement that PS3 will have 10 year lifetime. I think PS3 with decent support till 2016 is realistic, but new consoles will arrive before that. Probably in 2012 or 2013. PS3 sales be at its highest late next year, then decline.

here is a Question will the recession end by that Time? i doubt it very much

which is bigger risk putting out a new system, or continue putting out new bundles with some thing's added in like a Arc or Natal

the new system I think would not be a good Idea to release sooner rather than later, the longer they hold off the less of a risk they will be taking.

I think that is what Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are watching for right now some real sign of the recession letting up.

But it's the truth if you wear Sony glasses.

Then how come you don't have a gaming PC?