PS3 and 360 has the same sales start as WiiU was having. Even DS and 3DS were both struggling on launch. The DS systems have anhialated.. WiiU isn’t in that much trouble , it’s only a matter of Nintendo keeping up the effort.
Was a tad premature, but by the time the competition launches, which if rumor is to be believed will be a long while away in most territories (considering how much you like rumors), WiiUs OS will be up to proper speed, with the Virtual Console and a myriad of other digital software etc.. As the current sales are slowly accelerating over this, can expect WiiU to be several million units ahead the competition, and the low over-head Nintendo runs, means it will be a relatively easy profit for them. PS3 pulled Sony under for years, and according to an M’soft exec , XBOX has been a virtual waste of their time from its inception.
As for Gakai, well, I wouldn’t know exactly what setup they’re going to use either. But they’re making some massive claims about it all
e.g., you can stream PS4 games to Vita……
not sure if that meant stream over local wireless from PS4 or just download to Vita off an internet server (I don’t take that much intimate notice)
either way, it still doesn’t sound that legitimately plausible notion that it will work very well. Vita has a tenth of PS4 performance, the downscaling would be insane. Basically you’d be playing a completely different (and diminished) version of the game. And considering Vita wouldn’t be directly compatible with the “move” hardware which I think the PS4 controllers would be. So either Vita will be limited to only the games that never supported “move” to begin with, or you will be playing a potentially broken game.
Sony has yet a very great deal to explain on everything they’re promising

WiiU isn’t that badly priced, the deluxe model does ship with a pretty decent all-round piece of software, give it an actual try if you haven’t already (sorry it’s not a gore-buster R18+ title).
Also WiiU is compatible with the Wii-motes ppl have already bought and the balance board, and it’s 100% backwards compatible (via relatively functional emulation) to all Wii games.
My; who knows how old, maybe a year, mobile phone cost 50% more than my WiiU did, and aside WiiU’s lack of radio based telecommunication and capacitive touch , vastly out performs my mobile in nigh on every other way.
PS4 will cost a fortune, you wait for that one

Really, Uncharted 1 + 2 + 3, Little Big Planet 1 + 2, the amazing value of Playstation PLUS… God of War 3, HEAVY RAIN… and looking to the future THE LAST OF US + BEYOND, and JOURNEY… THESE games have “TARNISHED” the Playstation brand???? I don’t wanna seem like I’m always on the defense of SONY, but I DO think they are a GREAT brand (which is why I buy their systems!) …so please, if you’re going to say a brand is “tarnished” please give some proof with your opinion. Last I checked… playstation had the MOST fans on facebook more than nintendo or xbox…. I really do not think many people would say playstation is “tarnished” ..have you not seen all the hype about the PS4 recently??? A “tarnished” brand would not be getting that kind of POSITIVE attention from SO MANY!

Everything is always expensive at launch, it’s just how it is these days.. if you want a great piece of tech.. be ready to pay for it. Or wait 6 months and the price will go down…. I’m on that 6-12 month waiting list myself actually… unless the PS4 has some AMAZING games I would have to get ASAP (only games I can think of that would do that for me would be Gran Turismo on PS4 or Uncharted PS4), I will have no problem milking my PS3 till it dies lol, so many great games / many more still coming for this system… MGSV, GTA5, Last of Us, Beyond, Watch Dogs, Remember Me, Grid 2, maybe even Gran Turismo 6…. no need to upgrade just because a new system is out. It’s on SONY to MAKE us really want the system NOW. If they can’t do that.. then when they lower the price they will. 😉

Wii is a different story. It’s Wii U’s turn now.. and look how poorly that system is doing. Nintendo is the one that is in trouble… PS4 is looking to start out great out of the gate with great games and SUPPORT from game developers. Nintendo can’t rely on their controller gimmick to get them a free pass this gen… it’s about about the games… and the games are what has kept SONY in the game / they’ll continue to. It won’t be $600…. $430 hopefully as most rumors mentioned that number, and to answer your question of what does “draw your own conclusions” really mean? It means to use common sense.. the ps3 was $600 and every dummy on earth could recognize that was the main reason the PS3 started out so slow…. This time the PS4 is more like a PC on the inside, SO…. “draw your own conclusions” means that it obviously won’t be as expensive as PS3 was. Common sense. I don’t know about the streaming thing for every territory.. but it is a thing they’re going to push and it WILL work for those people with decent connections… they wouldn’t have designed a whole system based on it nor bought a whole company for it if it didn’t look promising…… at least I don’t think they’re that stupid to do so… everyone knows SONY is tight on money.. so them buying GAIKAI is a huge risk.. I don’t think they would have spent the HUGE chunk of money they did on it if they didn’t have a solid looking plan behind it. It’s not just about streaming and network power / bandwidth.. it’s about the power of the system and how the system is built… look at Uncharted 3 and Call of Duty for example.. games that already record + save your past games….. that’s probably what the PS4 does… it has a HUGE amount of RAM… it probably saves this data away and has recent data always available / ready to be uploaded just in case someone hits the SHARE button. That would make it easier on the bandwidth… instead of the internet bandwidth having to take all the data… the PS4’s memory probably helps hold and “stream” this data as well. Again, just my guess on how it works. But if it didn’t work SOMEhow, I don’t think they would have bought GAIKAI.

Typo…. Wii outsold PS3

If Microsoft is planning to launch in the PS4 time-frame, no, they can’t make any serious change to their hardware at all. PS4 adding the improved RAM was a last minute thing, and now time is even less. It would take quite a fair sum of time to modify, test, and actually begin manufacturing.
As for dev costs, they are always becoming more efficient, but generally speaking never lower. Read the article about the new Tomb Raider selling more than 3 mil, but still coming out at a loss? For the consumer , prices wont change much, but its hitting devs harder and harder, hence the barrage of closing studios we have today. And unless PS4 is a run-away success, devolping games won’t be able to take full advantage of the hardware.
Some game prices have been on average lower, but that’s mainly digital distribution causing that effect. Saves printing discs, delivering etc, also online sales get the financial boost of having advertising thrown at u.
PS4 will not be 10 times the power of WiiU. Will be estimate 4, and even at that ratio Wii outsold PS4, and did it in a far more timely fashion, PS3 has only just caught up in its stride at the end of the gen. And if the controller tech u desribed was so cheap, the WiiU pad wouldn’t cost so much. Thing is, WiiU is primarily designed to have one, and the rest of the Wiimotes and other major peripherals are backward compatible.
PS4 goers will be forced to buy a whole new array of controllers. The old ones will still compat Im sure, but if a PS4 game is built to use a touch function, u r forced to buy the new ones (at least for local-multi). You might afford, think most the Playstation fan-base won’t.
Sony aren’t waiting for M’soft, bets on theyll announce the same time. At this stage they probably have the price already set. Again, it takes time to manage the product. They don’t just think of a price the day before announcement.
I’ll bet against u, PS4 will cost more than u think. Its heavy tech, Sony is not magic, and they can’t absorb those kind of dollars like that again. Between system, new controllers, game prices and a Vita if u want to challenge the WiiU pad (which it wont for several reasons I’ve ranted elsewhere). U’ll be laying down a fortune. At the absolute least, PS4 all round will cost the most of the big 3. Sony have little purchasing advantages of M’soft or even Nintendo. U’ll pay the price for what u get…sooner or later

The Vita is suffering from poor marketing. Factor in a PS+ subscription and the Vita actually becomes cheaper than the 3DS in the long run. Problem is, most consumers aren’t familiar with PS+.