You know, games take more time and money to build, good titles dont comme out until a good year or so has been spent on it, some titles even take 2 to 3 years to develop. Then if a console lifespan is lower than 5 years, we will not see much more than clones of games that are boring as shit. It's true that Nintendo may have fallen a bit behind, but Microsoft isn't helping in some ways. The Strenght of Microsoft though lies in its dev kits wich are all directx based. That gives them a full head start not only in hardware but in software. How many titles are done for both pc and x-box. I think that what other console makers need is some really good dev-kits. As for games, i was so displeased since the ps1 by the amount of shit that can come up on consoles that i do not buy consoles. And since they are going to be new ones each 3-4 years, what the heck, better upgrade the cpu and vid-card on my pc. Personnally i really missed old games wich the fun factor was more important than the techno-wiz-graphics-from-outer-space. Not that i dislike a good looking game, but more time is taken to devlop stunning graphic games wich a ultimately boring...