What that means initially is that you have alot of products that are only slightly better games in the same genre on another machine - and the titles that really take advantage of the machine come along later.

From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software - so that gives us a head start.

The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared.

Online console gaming will continue to grow at a healthy pace.

I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation.

And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time.

Polygons are fashionable at the moment - particularly in the arcades.