Quote Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn View Post
Microsoft and Sony both need to pull their heads of their asses and realize they're developing GAME consoles, not entertainment hubs.

Looks like the story of this current gen is going to continue onto the next. Nintendo does something that really catches on, Microsoft copies it and gets on the success to a degree, and then Sony copies them both and ends up losing a ton of money because the fad has passed. Well, I don't see the Wii U catching on at all, but it's still the same general idea.
Dude, you need to realize that, for most people, they use their consoles to watch things on their TVs more than they do to play games. For either console to actually be successful, they MUST continue to integrate those things into the consoles.

The days of video game consoles being just about video games is over. Cellphones, tablets, and iPads are cutting into that market QUITE a bit more than most video game companies are willing to admit (just listen to or read anything reporting about it from a business perspective - for instance, Sony MUST make a BIG splash with this coming console or you could actually see them having to pull out of the console market after the upcoming console generation; yes, their revenue stream from the PS3 and Vita is THAT bad).

There's a reason why this last console generation lasted so long (2004 to 2013 - and, no, I don't count the Wii or WiiU in this; they aren't generation gap consoles) compared to older generational gaps (5 years (2000 to 2005) for PS2 to 360 - 5 years (1995 to 2000) for PS1 to PS2) - 6 years (1989 to 1995) for Genesis to PS1 - and 4 years (1985 to 1989) for NES to Genesis). They had to try to get as big of an install base as possible to recoup the initial losses from their respective consoles for this generation (Microsoft lost something like $1 billion for their Xbox 360 heat fuck up and Sony didn't make money off of the PS3 until something in the neighborhood of 2 or 3 years after the launch of the system (Q3 of 2008 if I'm not mistaken)).