Boy, they expect some real shit. It doesn't say WHEN 2014 they expect the next Xbox, so I'll assume late like the others.
Holy crap, investors are predicting that Nintendo is going to win using the most negative possible wording. I'm
kind of impressed.
Anyway, tablets and cellphones have been huge for a couple years now, and it hasn't really put a crippling ding on the market thus far. One of the three consoles on the market is following a fairly normal end-of-gen dropoff, while the other two are doing
far better in this point of their lives than previous generations have shown with their respective products. Why would this market, which seems overall much healthier during any transitional period before it (arguably with the last one being an exception, I suppose), suddenly implode?
«The firm believes that this will be down to the next Xbox being "an incremental improvement, not a quantum leap" over its predecessor.»
Also, I missed this the first time. Science-me is extra angry at these analysts for not understanding the basic, basic principle that a "quantum leap" is
by definition an "incremental improvement" of the smallest possible order. Damnit, world-at-large, stop getting this wrong all the time! RAAAARGH! >:O
Six years ago their big quiet from Remote announcement to E3 showing was 8 months.
Would it be accurate to say that the Wii U initial announcement had more substance than the initial "Revolution" controller announcement?