He's saying that you don't understand Badgenome, not the situation at hand. It was just a joke - he was saying that Wii is last-gen xP

one of the reason 3rd parties did not bet on the Wii was because they thought PS3 would be the best selling console. 

the other is because of the Wii controller. developers were simply not ready for it and or did not believe it would succeed.

third the Wii was too weak for them and they wanted to advance further graphics and AI.

this time there is more reason too believe that they will get better support as they are familiar with the technology plus they will be more willing to familiarize themselves with whatever new technology Nintendo will offer. The 3DS seems to be doing fine so far as far as 3rd parties go 

You don't only have a feeling that you are only renting the product, you actually are just renting the product. You can't sell the game and companies have every right to remove games from servers when ever they want and with some DRM-protected games they could even disable gaming completely at any time (especially if DRM requires server connection even for single-player experience). And IMO you don't own anything you can't sell. But if game prices for direct download games are lower than physical games, this won't matter to most people (proven by success of digital music). And most people buy games just to play them now, they don't think about resale value or that they might not be able to play same game 10 years in the future.

U might be right. The thing that worries me about the next gen is the prices of the games.

It`s not a question of being more or less powerfull, the first or last to get on the market, imo.
It`s always about the price of the console, it`s games and how it`s perceived by the public in general.

Wii 2, if Nintendo doesn`t stray away from what made Wii a success, will already be a success - as PS2 was as a follow up to PS1.
The mass market already trusts the Nintendo brand for their gaming needs. More than raw power, being first on the market, Sony and MS will have to win the market`s heart and that`s probably like someone going for the Apple market. A better product doesn`t even = victory!

It is a problem to quote you each time you make me smile but you just cracked me up hahaha

Let me get into my time machine and get back to you. lol

I love how we all just KNOW what all 3 companies have planned next-gen. It's like everybody and the aunts and uncles has an insider...

720 that is the most illogical name I have ever heard. How could you possibly market a system with such a ridiculous name? 720 of what exactly? 

PS4 is a logical successor to the PS3. PS4 sounds like the winner of the next console generation. 

Nintendo will have a level playing field next generation, the score is reset back to zero. The casual motion control advantage has been nullified. 

The winner of the previous generation goes in as favourite just like the winner of most sport club competitions. But the top dog is the hunted and the competitors will be fighting harder to knock off the top dog. 

Console wars don't start on a level playing field and the score isn't set back to zero.  Certain companies (for next gen Sony and Microsoft) have more of an uphill battle than using this example Nintendo.  Nintendo's brand name is much more powerful than it was in 2006.

This is clearly illustrated by the next gen handheld 'war', as far as we know the 3DS could completely do a Virtual Boy and flop, but it has must less of a struggle than the PSP2 or what the DS had in 2004-2005.  The 3DS has the 'DS' brandname and excellent third party support.  The 3DS has these innate advantages and it is down to how it uses these to gain/keep market share.