It's not if Sony will be around that long but will they allow the Playstation brand to be around that long. I would think not.

that's about 40-45 years from now.

If we upgrade our computing power at the same rate until then, it's going to be ridiculous, but i think we will hit some kind of roadblock.

you realize nintendo is on their 7th console plus DS plus gameboy.

 True, but gaming is Nintendo's only asset... and their company is run that way. 

Nintendo is halfway done.

Virtual Boy was FAR from portable and FAR from a hand held. The other is one from the 70's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_TV_Game

I seriously doubt Sony in the game industry that long. I also doubt that Microsoft will be in the game. Apple has a slight possibility of jumping in and taking over.

I also don't know about Nintendo atm. They are only a game company. But, I think they made so much dough with the Wii and Ds, probably more than the Ps1 and Ps2, that they could jump into a whole new industry, like a computer manufacturer like Dell or Sony, or a computer software maker, like M$.


Who knows what the world holds for us tomorrow.

Yeah, but Virtual Boy wasn't created to compete with other consoles, so it doesn't really fit there either. Really, it's much closer to handheld than it is console. The 2nd Gen system I'll give you.

But Zucas' point still stands--Nintendo hasn't stuck with a brand of console that entire time. Nintendo isn't the name of the console, it's the name of the company, in other words equivalent to Sony, not Playstation. The names of the consoles were the Famicom, Super Famicom, NES, SNES, etc. They abandoned those names after two generations, consolitdating to make a console called the Ultra 64, before going with Nintendo 64. Then abandoned again for Gamecube. Then again for Wii. You could say that Nintendo is used for both console and company, but even there their naming concepts are widely varied through their existance. If you want to say N64 follows the same brand name as NES and SNES (though of course not in Japan), fine, but neither Gamecube or Wii fall under that--if anything they are the first "high concept" names Nintendo adopted since the Famicom. (Well, and then Gameboy for handhelds).