I just hope that GTAV's soundtrack is better...

Well to be honest the 360 and PS3 could compete well with a barely more advance console compared to the 7 year old Xbox 360 and the 6 year old PS3.

 If Wii U succeeds> MS force triggers> If MS triggers once, Sony needs to load up. It's likely that Sony follows suit like previous gen but this time, the one year wait can be a real trouble. Now the Wii Brand is to have the 'acid' test before it's poised to ever succeed.

E3 2012 is going to be eagerly awaited for regardless.

Now based on the site: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/342452/wii-u-graphics-less-powerful-than-ps3-xbox-360-developers/, it's very much certain that the PS3 and 360 will continue to compete. I guess Nintendo screwed up big time for 8th gen.

Danne my idea of spring is simply because Sonys leak indicated that they would launch within 18 months of August 2011. Microsoft has stated they will not launch last and I know they are aware Sony is rushing as fast as possible to get the PS4 to the market. Sony has stated that they will not launch late, now earlier reports were that Sony would likely launch last new statements indicate Sony believes they will launch first.

Considering comments by both Microsoft and Sony I cannot see them giving Nintendo a year head start. If Sony launches in 2013 they are going to want to launch earlier then Microsoft likewise Microsoft will want to beat Sony to the market.

I was 75% sure that Microsoft was launching this fall. Recent statements from Epic and Microsoft have led me to begin questioning that prediction. Microsoft had initial kits for Nextbox in 2008 I am very confident they had a nearly complete Dev kit already last E3. But Epic made statements suggesting Microsoft was over hauling the systems graphical capabilities the kits believed to be in developers hands is 6x the power of 360 according to Epic that is not sufficient for Unreal4. Epic told a story of when they got Microsoft to upgrade the 360's capabilities at last minute this generation. It apparently cost Microsoft a billion to upgrade and delayed the hardware kits.

I now think Microsoft might be changing their launch strategy and delaying the hardware release so they can adjust it to run Unreal4 as well as use some of Nintendo's tech (copy). But even then Microsoft will be in a hurry to bring the hardware to North America.

I find it highly unlikely that Microsoft or Sony with wait a year if it is at all possible to launch any earlier!

^^Or maybe Sony's talking shit to make Microsoft rush their console.

yeah,"release the  scapegoat" strategy...

if this is true, then that would be the smartest thing SOny does in a long time

The community is in agreement that this GamesIndustry-originated rumor is bullshit for several reasons, which you can read in any of the several threads devoted to this rumor.