I suspect the Wii2 will be more powerful than the PS3, incorporate Wiimote and wii motion+, a microphone and maybe some variety of touchscreen in it.

The PS4 and 720 controllers will be directly ripped off the current Wiimote, or maybe Wiimote and wiimotion+

I have been saying this after the Wiimote was announced and before PS3 and Wii were released.

This won't be a battle of the casuals(as the hardcore continue it's elite attitude) though. Isntead it will be about making Killzone2, Gears of War more accessible to more played by bridging the controls. That way they will tap into more profitible games. To do this will mean that Sony and MS will start a casual division(calling the common gamer retarded) to attract a portion of the market to their machines.

But yeah no way. The pointer is one of the best of interfaces we have to date. It's more a question why are Sony and MS(especially) being so moronic and not doing something like this earlier.

Heres somethign REALY stupid. With the massive number of pointer games on the PC why aren't any of them on the Wii? Give me Fallout Wii, Baldursgate2, RTS. There are so many console gamers missing out on awesome games because of the old controller and no one is doing these old games on the Wii.

for the love of god i hope they do not force it a s a standard controller or they will lose my money id i will move back to pc gaming.... the only way it would be acceptable would be true 1to1 motion, for me its a step backwards in its current form hence me giving my wii to my grandparents ....

now im looking for touch screen gaming on something larger than a ds with gestures and multitouch pc need to catch up with that stuff or apple needs a 1st part solution, given how many 3rd party mods are out there for the mac laptops into touchscreen mac laptops

Yes,I also think that they will have wagle.
I also think that they will have regular(classic type)controllers as well.

Next console? It looks like Sony's current console is planing to have it with the goofy break apart controller.

goddog - please, do your self a favour and play your friends Wii. I'm sure by now that all of your friends own one. FPS with dual analogue sticks or keyboard plus mouse feels boring after using the Wiimote.

Kasz - companies take out patents all the time, even if they have no intention of acting upon them in the near future

Sony already has motion sensing, albeit unsuccessfully implemented though...When Sony, and Microsoft change their controllers...and they will, they will probably have fewer buttons, MAYBE some motion sensing, but usually once one company capitalize on a technology generally everything that comes after is looked upon as a knockoff publicly.

Maybe but I think it is unlikely.

When one person does something right, everyone will try to emulate it.

This is disruption at work. All games need the "waggle" or be left in the dust. The truth, however, is that since Sony and Microsoft do not make the games on their systems (or at least not like Nintendo can) that they will struggle to compete, if at all.

There is absolutely no doubt that future MS and Sony consoles will include new forms of inputs that involve motion and pointers. However, I imagine both companies will work hard to make sure they build on what the Wii has done and will be more than simple Wii rip offs.

I still think Nintendo's console will be the most unique though.