You continue to live up to your screen name as I can see.

And I've heard that even hardcore gamers will play it.

\sarcasm

LOL I'm Wii fan number one but I coudn't miss a joke like this x)

I'll think it will be close as long as they continue delivering their core games, still cater to their casual crowd, and don't make horrible mistake after horrible mistake to lose a large chunk of their fanbase like one certain company did this generation.

Assuming they don't fuck up, they should do well. The only thing they won't have for them is the new and exciting controls but they're creative so I'm sure they'll think of a new gimmick.

Just going by history it seems to me that it's basically is impossible to know with any real certainty the winner of the next generation of consoles. This is especially true now since we know absolutely nothing about them and we do know that other than a core number of gamers the majority seem to have no real brand loyalty.

Some people can come up with an answer that they try to support with history such as a company will typically dominate two generations in a row but even that really means nothing since at one time the first to a specific number of consoles sold *always* won.

@ Legend I'm with you on that point

Nintendo will certainly go into the new generation with alot of momentum and hype in a similar way Sony came into this gen but really it's a new battle and isn't so influenced by what happen in previous gens given the companies involved offer something apealing to the customer.

Will the Wii 2 be as succesful ? there's so many factors to consider I'm scared to answer the question.

-Will the consumer want Wii Play 2 ,Wii Fit 2 and Wii Play 2 with updated graphics & physics , from what we've learnt this gen do the new demographic care too much about HD and physics ?.

-Will Nintendo instead make more IP's to support the Wii2 ? Wii Play , Wii Sports and Wii Fit are arguably the first things you'd do with technology like the Wii , what more in terms of motion controled games does the Wii have to offer.

-Will MS and Sony simply sit back and apply the same formula they did last gen and hope the conumer tastes return back to traditional gaming ?.

-Will MS decide to obliterate competition and enter the gen with a low entry price point , strong exclusive 3rd party support a multiple SKU strategy even ? they can afford virtualy anything they want so i'm certain they will pose the greatest potential threat.

-Sony have the biggest development resources of the 3 , if a huge amount of resources where dedicated towards the newer demographics then this would most likely cause Nintendo problems , Sony are just as good if not better at producing quality 1st party titles and the number of titles they are capable of producing if they aren't high budget blockbuster games would be imense .

Personally, I would love to see the Xbox be the next gen's #1 console. I mean, it's doing such a great job this gen I believe it would be a very thirlling thing for it to be #1.

we can just wait and see, im thinking it will be close

At this rate there will be no need for a Wii 2.

Wii-2 will win, Nintendo has spending like 10 times more than Sony/MS on R&D.

it will be interesting to see what they pull out of there sleeve