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

Console game publishing has become more like theatrical release film-making and it is very hard if you are not one of the major publishers, and even for them it is hard unless they are working with major game brands.

None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software.

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.

But any big change is more likely to result if there is a disruptive event such as new technologies or platforms that have a surprising effect on market share.

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.

We'll look at the japanese launch as a model and aspire to have things go as well as they did over there.