Sony and Microsoft are going to get some nice lessons learned about the next gen, thanks to this Wii U. HD Zelda with some touchscreen map interface will be cool, but I'm really looking forward to what the other two companies figure out. there's a lot of products out there, from handhelds to smart phones to touchpads to waggle gimmicks to Kinect and so on. A lot of ideas about how different people play games.
In today's day and age there will always be a market for like 25+ million people to just stick a game into a console and play. The focus now seems to be on expanding the market, but I think there's room to sell product to typical gamers. Upstream is a myth, but they've done a decent job with downstream selling. Outside of some exclusives and pricing, what really separates a 360 from a PS3? I have both, like both, play on both, no real big difference in the experience (I prefer 360 controller but I am happy with either one). I'll be curious to see if the companies try and do something (outside of marketing and advertising) to really dominate the typical gamer audience, or if that can even really be done.
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Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter?
Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards.