@wenlan: dude, console builders don't create the successor of their consoles because it has been on the market for an X amount of time, they make a new console because the sales are lowering and the third-party support is dying.
Gamecube was dead in 2006, Wii came just before it was completely dramatic.
I'm sure PS3 isn't going to be on the market for 5 more years if it stops selling 4 years from now just for the sake of completing the 10 year plan.
I mean, the PS2 isn't going to make the 10 years and that's the best selling platform ever!
And @ everybody who says Nintendo games are kiddy and other and PS/XB games are not: they just SEEM kiddy to make them appeal to everybody. With the colourful graphics comes deep, DEEP gameplay! They can be played by anybody, age 9 to 99.
And PS3/360 games, which are mainly first-person shooters, aren't deep most of the time. Sure, there are exceptions(Orange Box, Halo, CoD, BioShock, even Mass Effect, although that's more of a RPG), but most of them are just the 'random-muscled-guy-comes-with-complete-arsenal-of-US-and/or-couple-of-imaginative-arms-with seemingly-endless-hammerspace-in-pockets-and-saves-the-world-by-killing-nazis,- aliens,-zombies,-random-people-and/or-cops-or-he-doesn't-save-the-world-but-heck he's-still-badass' kind of shooter. Even the good ones are most of the time, but they combine that with a decent storyline and/or great gameplay.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of series like Half-Life and Halo, but Nintendo games are the ones that bring magic in this industry, and magic should be for everybody, not just for adolescent casual gamer GTA boys of 12-18 years old.
@Itsamii: you are probably right, this is a gaming forum. Most people don't use/know logic.
