It was clearly a work of genius behind Nintendo, and a blind gamble. This could have been another Virtual Boy, although I don't think they'll make the same mistakes. I've never seen so much hype and antecipation for a console since the Super Famicon - Super NES. On the other hand, Sony went through a whole different path, sort of a brute force path, different from Nintendo that focused on criativity and fun. The price, the controller issue, the lack of good games, the GTA franchise being more XBOX oriented than PS oriented, the blu-ray support which is slowly becoming a Betamax... I doubt we'll ever see a PS4, but I wonder what Nintendo will do to top itself after Wii...