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Originally Posted by Ronaldo07
Ferrari and Porsche make enough money selling one car than Toyota does selling 5 or 6 though and with Nintendo, huge sales + a cheap console to develop + lots of first party titles which are huge sellers mean Nintendo are making huge profits. They may not be stealing much from PS3 sales (possibly a few more from 360) but if a new set of consoles are released in the nest few years I'd expect Nintendo to have a very competitive machine
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PS3 is just a year old in Europe, I doubt Sony has any current plans to release another one until at least 2012. When they do, it will also be based on PS3 technology, just upgraded - so it should cost very little to do (in comparison to development costs of the PS3) and have developers familiar with it. Microsoft is not quite in the same boat, but I doubt that they will be silly enough to release a new console soon either - PS3 and XB360 cost a lot of money to develop. Any new console from Microsoft (if they still want to stay in the console hardware business as a way to get their operating systems into the home) will need a different processor and memory architecture (with an upgraded GPU if they want to stick with AMD), and this will either have to be bought off the shelf or designed from scratch, they also will need to deal with the optical disc issue. In Nintendo's case it will be much more difficult. Wii was very easy for them due to what it is based on. Any new machine from them will have to follow a different route, it will need a total redesign which could be very expensive. The waggle controller will not be new next time around, it will not be such a novelty. They are raking it in now, but what about the longer term?