See for yourself:

Generation 5 had five main competitors: Atari Jaguar, 3D0, Playstation, Sega Saturn, and Nintendo 64.

Generation 6 had four entries: Dreamcast, Playstation 2, GameCube, and Xbox.

Generation 7 currently has three consoles: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and Wii.

It looks like we will end up with only two consoles in the next generation and my guess will be: Wii 2 and Nextbox with Sony taking sometime off and will probably simply shuffle the PS3 into a slimmer model. The decrease in the number of consoles is probably due to skyrocketing cost of participating in the console race -- we are talking billions of dollars with a very high risk of big losses.

hasnt the industry been growing this gen, im scared that will have too many consoles nextgen , and this gen has broken all those so called "traditions"

Ehh no.

Look at the ones that bailed out, their consoles failed to move 10m, no one is leaving after this gen they all have done well nuf already.

If anything some new serious competitor will come likely from SKorea but maybe Europe.

If you're going to count the Jaguar and 3D0 then you should count the Vii as well...

Anyway, Dreamcast was a failed console (in terms of sales :P) so we can hardly count that

Saturn also failed

3D) and Jaguar flopped hard

gen 3 - 1 main competitor

Gen 4 - 2 main competitors

Gen 5 - 2 main competitors

Gen 6 - 3 main competitors

Gen 7 - 3 main competitors

So the pattern is

1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 ...

If we do see another generation of consoles, I believe it will be something like the following:


i game - apple

Playstation 4 - sony

Super Wii - nintendo

Xbox evolution - microsoft

"PS Cloud" Leo not PS Shi

wow i could really see those being their real names.

The OP has left out:

Gen 4: Super NES, Genesis, TurboGrafx-16.

Also, Sega CD and Sega 32X.

This is pure 100% win!