This is no good. I already have a hard time playing any 360 games which have PC versions... the console is old, should be retired in 2012.

Same with PS3... By 2012 Sony should re-release PS3, put a full on Cell processor in to it, not the gimped one they have now... take out that abomination of a video card and replace it with something badass.

If they want to keep this gen going they need to enable multi GPU hardware scaling or something.

2 X Xbox 360 connected together = game in true 1080p resolution

1 360 = 720p

Forza 2 and Forza 3 already do 3 monitor scaling with 3 xbox 360s and push a resolution higher than 1080p like that, so it is possible.

This doesn't mean there won't be a new Xbox before that time, it means that the current Xbox 360 will be on the market by their intentions alongside the next Xbox. Based of consumer interest alone at this precise point, the Xbox 360 can justify another 3 years at least on the market with or without next generation consoles, especially if those consoles are more expensive.

I won't have to worry about next-gen until 2015? FUCK NOO!

Games are either challenging in terms of motoric skills, challenging one's mind or a combination of both. Wii Sports being a sports game makes it fall in the first category and it's not just the training mode, the regular game modes also become continually more challenging to raise or keep the player score. Nintendo also had huge success with their brain games among other titles (and rightly so), so there's only one possible reason how you could come to your illogical conclusion.

You really don't like Nintendo. Am I right?

Sarcasm won't help you out of the hole you dug yourself. You can't offer a reasonable explanation as to why Nintendo's games suck and why Popcap's are good while I could spend a couple of minutes to find a glorious thread that further proves that you don't like Nintendo.

That is based on what... anecdotal evidence? Then who is buying all those Wii games if people get disinterested so fast? You are looking at two options here: Either people get into gaming due to Wii Sports or the Wii has some very avid gamers who all bought hundreds of games.

Shaking the Wiimote in the Wii series games and not much else? Why do you say something that is so evidently wrong?

Wait...

Are you one of those hardcore gamers who lost to his grandma in Wii Sports? Is that it?

I highly doubt that you can achieve good results in Wii Sports by just shaking the controller. It's possible to be good with quick flicks of the wrist, but that would take skill and that would make you wrong again, wouldn't it?

An interesting console sales comparison. The PS2 hadn't hit 100m after five years, so with GC and Xbox added in we are looking at about 130m. But we run into the issue that the PS2, the marketleader, had the headstart last gen while this gen the 360, an also-ran, launched a year earlier. This favors the sixth gen a little bit.

Now we are looking at a picture where gamers dropped Sony and Microsoft compared to last generation, it's roughly 110m vs. 80m now. Either the PS3 and 360 bored people, made them quit gaming and Nintendo brought in a whole lot of new gamers or Nintendo just took a lot of Sony's and Microsoft's (actually just Sony's) former consumers away while growing the gaming population just a little bit. Personally I think it's a combination of both.

What about handhelds? Hey, if we remember the iPhone, we should talk about the DS and PSP too. How does the gen over gen comparison look there? About 70m vs. 160m? That looks like growth and it seems most of it is coming from Nintendo if we consider that software sales, because we are talking about the number of gamers and not people who listen to music or watch movies, right?

On the whole, handhelds have been doing great this gen while one could think that the home console space is in trouble, showing only a little bit of growth and that is coming solely from Nintendo, because Microsoft really just stole Sony's former consumers. Maybe the gaming industry is in trouble. While it's true that the Wii wasn't able to grow gaming significantly, it's also true that that is mostly because the PS3 and 360 made it rapidly decline.