Perhaps...only time will tell. Nintendo has returned as King and will be almost impossible to dethrone, for probably several more generations to come (IMO). I do love my 360 though so one can hope.

i think microsoft will win the next generation, they have the money to do it. I don't think nintendo will be able to deliver a console as inovative as the first wii and also mainstream gamers don't buy a new console each gen. Also, Sony will probably do good next gen but the company is in such bad state ,they won't be able to deliver a leading console

LMAO i get ya ;)

In other news, Microsoft is only in their 2nd generation so the title may have been a bit over the top but yeh they have the ability to win for sure.

sega never won a generation either...nothing new

Who are you responding to?  The OP just stated who won and then asked if we thoguht MS would win.  There wasn't a theory or predictions or anything in his post.

Anyways, I don't think MS will win one.  Nintendo has their head on right.  Its hard to get into video games.  I have a little brother and he totally sucks at controlling characters.  Maybe its because he's only in like 3rd grade, but he has major issue with just moving people around.

And he's a little kid.  Kids pick things up really fast.  Now, by the time he's in like 6th grade he'll probably be better at games than I am.  But thats because he's a kid and he's going to force himself to get better.  Adults aren't like that.  If they don't get it, they figure that its not for them and they'll put it down and never touch it again.

The Wii doesn't have that issue by default.  My sister and step mom play the Wii all the time.  If you want to play a baseball game, you swing it like a bat.  You want to play a tennis game, you swing it like a tennis racket.  That makes sense.

Sony won it when nobody was making easy to use video game systems anymore.  Nintendo was winning gens when every system was easy to use.  Now that Nintendo has refocused on easy to use, I don't think they'll be removing the crown any time soon.

Especially not if third party support jumps up and you start seeing some serious games for the Wii.  The Wii is going to be like the NES for many people.  Mario and Duck Hunt will get you into liking video games, then the SNES comes out, introduces you to tons of new genres and deeper gameplay.  Now you love video games.  For the most part Nintendo has created a whole new audience thats radically different than who the Sony and MS are going after.

It will be hard for MS or Sony to tap into that audience.  Especially if controllers just get more and more advanced and their idea of motion control is to make you swirld to analog sticks while pressing 4 face buttons, 4 shoulders buttons all while moving your controller around in the air.  Thats like rocket science.  Only little kids and experienced gamers are gonna be willing to learn that.

The only way MS will ever win a generation is if they manage to have more presence in the Japan Market than they do now.

That sounds bitter.

Yeah its called the PC.

Nintendo will win this generation because they have the most innovative console on the market. They did something different than just "here's your controller, here's your console, here's your game". They came up with a way to make the controller seem like it doesn't even exist, and they applied it to simple and entertaining games that EVERYONE (as in E for Everyone) can enjoy. When 90 year olds are playing your system, there is definitely something appealing about it. (I have several opinions on the quality of Wii titles overall, but that's for a completely different discussion.)

If Microsoft or Sony came out with something that pushes the envelope in the next gen, (no, I'm not talking about the next gen Cell processor, gimme a break) that takes what the Wii did and makes the games even more immersive somehow, then they could easily take the crown back. How about full 3D HD graphics WITH a motion controller AND more games that aren't just for 8 year olds? I think that both Sony and MS have the vision to pull this off, it would just depend on which one does it better. Nintendo is not known lately for their graphics, and that probably wouldn't change much in the next gen. Again, if one of the other two could take what everyone loves about the Wii adapt it for an even more diverse crowd (not just 8 year olds, 80 year olds, and chicks) and make it full blown 3D capable as well as HD, you would have a winner. As long as you could make it affordable, that is.

It would take a lot of R&D to pull this off, and that may or may not be already happening at this very moment, but it's just a scenario. I may be skipping a generation--maybe next gen will be the standard increase in specs and graphics, and the NEXT generation after that would move things along. Who knows? Right now, Nintendo has all the power, and they probably have no plans to back down.

I think the Magnavox Odyssey won the first generation... but home gaming wasn't really mainstream until the Atari 2600.