Death's Head wrote:Rik wrote:Wait, disrupt the flow of the industry by not releasing more hardware until 2015 at the earliest, then they will be guaranteed the most poweful console and can try and stifle Wii U and Nextbox by having comfortably better versions of every multiformat game.
This is what I'd do. I'd support the PS3 for a few more years whilst secretly working on it's replacement. It would be very interesting to see what would happen if someone released a new console a few years after the competitors, it could backfire badly or deal a massive, unrecoverable blow to the opposition.
It'd only work if there was a big technology leap just around the corner. Otherwise a small upgrade will just leave 3rd-party devs building for the weaker console and doing lazy ports. Plus I think we're seeing diminishing returns in general so even a large leap in power might not make a huge difference to how games look or play.