Actually dec 21st 2012, but who's counting....biblical, sumerain I ching and science tells us we are leading up to something, I study it quite often, i found a link on wikipedia, if you type dec 21 2012 and look, on that date nasa predicts there will be the worst solar storm ever, kinda funny nasa, when the mayans predicted it before everyone now was even born?

 Plus, they will have established themselves, brand wise, in the casual market. That will be hard to take away by either Sony or MS. 

Base on the specs of PS3, it will be adequate to rival a Wii 2 and next gen Xbox. As for adding motion sensing controller like the wiimote to the other 2 consoles, I think the PS3 eye is much better if done right.

Who is to say they can't just expand the current capabillities of the Wii mote in the Next Gen. Right now the Wiimote can tell you what direction it is in, where, and how fast it's moving. What I am thinking they could improve on is to make the Wiimotes aware of where they are in relation to the person that is holding them. Make them aware of how tightly they are being held. I see that whole area being covered simply by adding one more motion sensor that could clip onto your shirt, then have all the Wii mote information relay where they are in relation to that new motion sensor. (I don't know if I explained that well enough though). Also, matching the PS3 processing power is something that might be out of the question. Afterall, the PS3 "cell" was designed to be 2 leaps forward in technology. (a half assed 2 leaps). I can see the Wii2 being a bit stronger than the 360 in the next generation though. Atleast in Processing power. It will also have a better graphics card in there. They will also probably predict your outrage at it's not matching the Processing power and make the graphics card a lot better to compensate. That is my vision of the Wii2. Although I doubt they will make a name like that. Nintendo has never put a 2 in front of any of their console names.

I'll go with the world ending in 2012, that makes things easier for us. Frank told me so!

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1000!!

It's a party!!

why does everyone think Moore's Law will just stop having any effect, and the PS3 will still be competitive in 5 years? I'm sorry to disappoint you all, but Moore's law has held for 30 years (and you can even extrapolate it backwards to apply to computers without transistors) and there's no reason why it will suddenly stop being valid. This means that there will be 4x as many transistors on chips in four years time. more transistors means a higher performance per clock cycle. The Cell is an interesting idea, and an excellent special purpose computer, but it is very specialised for tasks that are "embarrassingly parallel", and also heavy in mathematical calculations. Interestingly enough, graphics processing is the single most parallelisable task that we know of, but that is already being taken care of by a graphics card (it's little wonder that Sony originally tried to have the Cell handle graphics, it would be well suited. However, specialised graphics hardware will always be better). Unfortunately, many other areas of games (such as AI) are not, and completely unsuited to the Cell. As a general purpose computer, the Core 2 Duo blows the Cell out of the water, and C2D is older than the PS3. I can envision (in terms of hardware, five years from now) a powerful general purpose computer connected with multiple special purpose processors (one for graphics, one for physics, one for AI, etc), which would make the PS3 look like the PS2 does now. Of course, games would cost $100 million to make and the company that made this machine would never succeed. But don't think the Cell is some amazingly incredible piece of kit that won't be obsolete in 5 years, bcause it will be. In 5 years Nintendo could easily release something more powerful than Cell, at the same price point as the Wii and with the same form factor, if they so desired.

oh and, congrats ben, although it's 1,001 now. Does that mean I missed the party?

one thing for shure. the name won't be wii2 it will be (remember me) SUPER WII. :)

in conjunction with Wii2 controllers improved. i think it's time to combine with a controller type for the legs and/or head/eyes. The brain controller would probably have to wait till Wii 3. With motions added to the feet, I think a lot of games will be simplified (getting rid of button smashing). Think DDR + Wiimote.