Console manufacturers would love to have a new one to sell
Why? Don't they pretty much lose money by subsidizing them for a few years and only start breaking even after a long haul? I thought they made their money on game licensing.
Other than the Wii, that is often true. The business model is selling licenses to game developers for the games to be sold for that console. Maybe, just maybe, they'll make money on the hardware at the end of its cycle.
The licensing deal is also often why sometimes the PC version is five to ten dollars cheaper than the console version. You need no one's permission to publish to the PC market.
Why? Don't they pretty much lose money by subsidizing them for a few years and only start breaking even after a long haul? I thought they made their money on game licensing.