Yup. It won by just staying on the sideline and profit.

Dev costs likely won't change much. Not as big of a drastic change and all three have similar enough architecture that multi-platform development should be far easier... including with PC.

WiiU will be fine but obviously not Wii sales. We're not breaking 100m here.

Xbone will be profitable for MS even if it won't sell as much as X360.

Sony will be big winner here as with MS selling less, Sony will increase its sales over PS3.

That's my early gut feelings this gen and I guess we'll see how it turns out.

5. simpler games to encourage mass consumption.

5. more cliched plot, story and contents to encourage mass consumption.

5. more CoD to encourage mass consumption.

5. more unfinished releases to encourage mass DLC consumption.

6. more multiplatforms, less exclusives which takes away the whole point of many platforms existing.

7.  steambox wins.

THIS!!!

Anyway, I've always been first a Nintendo gamer, then Sony, then Microsoft. I actually play all three but in that order. The way things are going, this coming gen might be Sony then Nintendo then Microsoft for me. And most likely, the sales will be in that order too

Hm. Let's see:

1. Third parties released games on wiiU and sold horriblly, i.e. there is an explanation.

2. DRM might be good for the developers (more money). Costs might drop for certain games, as xbone and ps4 are very similar to a pc, so easy to develop on and to port on.

3. No evidence that ps4 games will have DRM. See point 2.

4. No evidence for that either. Several ps4 and xbone games look better than ever, plus they give more freedom to the developers, hence MGSV being a possibility at all (they wouldn't have made it exclusive on pc anyway). I was blown away when I watched the Metal Gear trailer/gameplay (and i'm not even interested in the genre), so I'd definitely call that a ground breaking game.

Why are you trying to spread disinformation? PS4 DRM is just like PS3 only for online on used games, X1 DRM is mandatory and it needs to be always online.

Nah, Sony is going to win this one on the home console front, Nintendo is going to win (or already has won) on the handheld front.

Microsoft will be the only true loser.

PSBone

ps: makes sense actually. PS===D MS.

Sony and Microsoft aren't selling their systems for a huge loss like they did for the ps3/360.

Game costs will not change that much, in fact for some titles they will even fall.

I'm predicting the demise of Activision. COD and WOW will fall, and Activision won't be able to match them.