If history repeats itself, will Sony eventually lose it's power? And to whom?

[quote name='False Hope']So it's safe to say that Nintendo basically saved gaming via its production of the NES?[/QUOTE]

No but they resurrected the console business. The gaming business kept right on going on home computers. In fact, a large number of eventual hit NES titles had their start on the Commodore, MSX, Apple, and Atari 8-bit computers. For those publishers who were doing fine on computers where they could use less expensive floppies and didn't have to pay royalties, it took a good while before the wisdom of Nintendo's business model became apparent. It didn't help that NOA tended to be very heavy handed in those days, placing severe limits on how many titles a publisher could produce in a year under their main label and dictating production levels at accountant's whims with little consideration for the publisher's actual needs.
 
I don't really see anyone dropping out after this generation. Nintendo is the only one that could be close, but they won't do bad enough to be dropping out. All three machines look to be solid, though E3 will be a better indicator of what's to come. Sony won't have the massive advantage they had this time, but things will be much closer between the three. I like Sony's attitude on the next-gen consoles, they're not rushing into it and do believe that there's plenty left in the PS2 to last for another 5 years (and probably 2, maybe 3, years of solid game releases).
 
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