Sony won't release their system for several more years. Everything Sony is doing right now is screaming that its a long ways off. Although if Wii U does well and kills PS3 sales, it might just force Sony's hand. And no, that isn't idle speculation, its a really well thought out guess. EVERYTHING is saying Sony won't release for a LONG time. So for the moment, Sony is going to be copying whatever Nintendo and Microsoft does to try and deflate their sales.

The threat is from Microsoft. At the earliest I see it being announced at E3 this coming year. Simply because its traditional to make console announcements at E3. (At least that's what I am guessing. Never seen one outside of it but I haven't looked at every console release) In fact, I think it's downright likely to be announced at E3, especially if Nintendo does well with the Wii U.

Halo is a system seller but I don't think they want to identify their console with Halo their signature FPS. It will probably be bundled with a sports title. Probably a hardcore version of Wii Sports... They will of course have a version that doesn't come with a bundled game, but they have been trying and are still trying to distance themselves from being called the FPS console with nothing but FPS on it.

Their major focus is going to be trying to improve on what Nintendo has already done with the Wii U while maintaining their FPS capabilities. No one doubts that XBox has FPS and the hardcore satisfied. They unlike Sony are capable of innovating their console. Problem is that they will either screw it up or they will hit the nail on the head. They have actually been doing a lot of things right in these past 10 years and I believe they will be the real threat here. In my opinion though I don't believe that they have enough pull in all the areas Nintendo has pull in and will at best, dig out a larger niche market that Nintendo doesn't have access to.

Mobile gaming might hurt Nintendo. Might not. I don't believe they can do anything they haven't already done to be honest. If it was going to collapse the gaming empire it would have already done it by now. Maybe if they added some legitimate controls to the system. Right now the whole system as a gaming platform is a joke in my eyes. But I understand that lots of people are still buying it.

My boss has a mobile gaming device, but its a bottom end one and ill admit their are probably better versions of the games he plays on more advanced phones. But the ones that he has made me cringe. Right next to one of the attack buttons on the touch screen was the reset console button, and every 5 minutes he or me would accidentally hit that button instead of the attack button, and yes we would have to start all over again. Like I said, that's probably just because the phone we were using for it sucked, but it certainly deterred me from even looking at mobile gaming seriously... I would have to hear some raving reviews before I would ever consider it at the moment.

12th in overall software sales but #1 when it comes to games to console ratio with 11.01 games sold per console ahead of the PS2 at 10.66 per cosole.

But who will buy a Wii U to play  game already in ps3 and Xbox360  like Fifa and COD ?

You're assuming that people buy a system to specifically play every game they buy for that system, which really isn't the case ...

Consider a family of 4 this Christmas where the parents decide to buy a Wii U as a gift from "Santa" to everyone, they pick up Just Dance 4 for little Sally, Lego City for little Billy, Mom gets New Super Mario U and Dad gets Call of Duty Black Ops.

Households are fully of diverse demographics of people, and a console which can provide a steady stream of good games for everyone in the household will be quite popular; even if some of the people in the household are only playing games that are available on other systems.

The Wii U specs are good, but they're only good compared to a PS3 and Xbox 360. Ideally I would want the PS4 at launch to be able to run Battlefield 3 and Crysis 2 comparable to the PC versions maxed out at 1080p and 60fps. I'm not exactly sure how good the Wii U specs are but I don't think it would be able to manage that. I'll put my hands up and admit that I'm a graphics whore, I'm a huge tech fan and it's one of the most exciting part about buying a new console for me.

Yeah, I love platformers too. There is a new LittleBigPlanet coming out for Vita, not sure about console though.

VR.. Try to hold the upad in front of the head (and if the game supports it.. like the bird demo) look around. Meaning a head version.. is virtual reality.. VR .. Wii-R.. :)

For me it was clear first time i saw wii u (preparet to stream the picture to a external device) that this is the time we go in..

So in short.. Wii-r (it must be the name) is a wii u accessori build on the tec from upad.. but without touch and buttons shaped as a head set offering virtual reality in games that supports it (i think u can play all games in it.. but only games made for headtracking/gyro control will give u VR)

Or u can think of it like a game series with speciel controller (in this case a headset)  just like GH, buzz and singstar..

In 1-2 years when you look down.. you don't see a wii-mote.. you see a  lightsaber (if it's a starwars game)

Offcourse this is not official.. but it will still hapen

Bundle it with crack?? That's all I can think of.

I totally agree. E3 2013 should be a doozy.  I think what will be very important is what Sony and Ms say about release dates of their next consoles. I really don't think they can miss releasing in 2013, cause that would be playing right into Nintendo's hand.

They'd have to join forces.

Why don't you think PS4 will release next year? Sony has gone on record and said they don't wanna be last one out again... And giving WiiU a head start of 2 years means handing Nintendo this gen...