Shovelware might be helping the game industry. I see piles of PS2 games in so many bins and say wtf are these games....so many weird games out there o.o but PS2 was the lead console. Now Wii may be getting those huge amount of wtf games in bins or maybe not still Wii is now the lead console and breaking records.

No innovation whatsoever! THE END!

NJ5, so apparently, the transition from the 6th to the 7th gen was when MS and Sony should´ve taken an approach similar to Nintendo´s, in your opinion?

High production costs, and a crash is ineviatble in the next 15 years. The production costs will be very high to make you game competetive and good, as a result earnings will be terribly small or there will be only losses, and to actually make profits games will be sold very expesively. This will lead to that people won't buy the games due to high costs, devs and publishers won't make money, and collapse, leading to a mass collapse of the industry.

It's either the aforementioned scenario, or a dramatic increase in Shovelware, which will forever ruin games for people - resulting in no purchasers and a collapse.

a boycott in video games.

MS and Sony are blessed with money sources they use to feed some developers and keep them from going bankrupt (i.e. all the exclusivity deals and such moneyhats).

In that way, Microsoft and Sony are effectively shielding a lot of companies from going bankrupt or doing massive restructuring (the ones which were surprised by Wii's domination).

But for their own sake, MS and Sony really should have tried to keep PS3/360 development cost lower.

BTW, I just found the graph I was talking about:

If the next generation of consoles is rather an evolution of the Wii/DS concept than a new revolution, then in my opinion we could see a slight recession of the video game market in the 8th gen, for I believe a not minor part of the buyers of these plattform have no interest in something which essentially does the same with little refined mechanics and better graphics.

@Lafiel: I'm not sure about that... The jump from PS1 to PS2 worked fine, and the PS2 wasn't any revolution.

It is basically what Nintendo did with DS and Wii.

Graphics has become a commodity for many potential buyers so the question is how could you entertain new and old customers?

Think about the success of Guitar Heroes for example ( even on DS ).

Comfortability. Meaning getting comfortable with current success. Doing so causes less advances to take place which keeps the market still. If a market does not advance it falls. That's exactly how it crashed in 83.