Comment Re:Shown Already? (Score 1) 245
The PS3 was released in 2006, not 2007, and the reason this last generation was shorter for Nintendo was that they were extremely late to the party last time and needed to launch earlier in order to compete.
But the dominant player in any generation usually gets an extra year or more out of their consoles; that's just the way it works and that's why you see Nintendo's product cycle shrinking with each generation up until now. Of course whoever's in last place is going to release a console in 4 or 5 years while the market leader stretches it out further. You replace a floundering console, not a successful one.
What Iwata is really doing is boasting about Nintendo's dominance at the moment.
But the dominant player in any generation usually gets an extra year or more out of their consoles; that's just the way it works and that's why you see Nintendo's product cycle shrinking with each generation up until now. Of course whoever's in last place is going to release a console in 4 or 5 years while the market leader stretches it out further. You replace a floundering console, not a successful one.
What Iwata is really doing is boasting about Nintendo's dominance at the moment.
