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A systems success always depends on one thing:games. No matter how weak your system is, if the publishers have high support for it, the gamers will come. Sony has never had a problem aquiring those publishers, something that Nintendo seems to have lost since Super Nes. But lately due to the high cost of game development, exclusitivity has been dying on Sony's part. Honestly I really don't know who will come out on top, but it will be an interseting battle none the less.
I fear for any system when an EB Games store employee tells me they'll be lucky to get four units at launch.
I don't know how it's gonna go...
I could give you guys a sales report after they come out...seeing as I work at GameStop and all.
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That reminds me I went to GameStop the other day and sold a bunch of DVDs, video games, and console accessories for game credit. So I could pre-order the Nintendo Wii and the Wii version of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess...But the cashiers said I couldn't pre-order the Wii yet so I just pre-ordered Twilight Princess instead.
i'd say sony has won two wars...the third, no matter their current problems, will probably also go to them as well
It would appear they agree with that. As did Nintendo after the success of the NES and SNES. But success happens for Reasons, and you can only get so far on name recognition and nothing more.
Sony still has plenty of third-party support. More than Nintendo. The demise of Nintendo was because of lack of third-party support.
There was more to it than that--unfriendly prices and a proprietary game format, particularly. Sounds familiar.
Yep the lack of third-party support somewhat led to Nintendo's downfall. But I think somewhere down the line Sony might lose third-party support too. Because like I said before the PS3 is losing exclusive game titles that might be a sign of things to come.
PS3 prices will be the same (in the U.S.) as 360 prices. Blu-ray is proprietary to a certain point. The cartridge format was limiting. Blu-ray is expanding and allows for media playback, just like DVD.Originally Posted by Kawaii Ryűkishi
It'd be awesome if the 360 'won' this generation. It's hard to call though, we need to look a year or 18 months into the future and see what Sony have done with the PS3 at that point. They can only charge what they're charging for the initial wave of fans/fanboys/whatever, other people won't pay that much for a console regardless of the actual value of what they are purchasing.
I'll be purchasing the PS3 as soon as possible when it comes out. I just feel very comfortable with the playstation.
Whether or not it wins in the race for top spot, i don't know. It looks alot closer this time than the last time, and now everyone is not clinging on too the playstation as before. Sony are really gonna have to impress big-time to have people purchasing the $600-something console of theirs, because it's a big ask to gamers, the majority who are still in school and without a job. There's gonna be alot of worried parent's out there.
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Hm. I'm not entirely sure (but I voted "yes", because I'm a biased Nintendo Fanboy). Part of me thinks that Sony will lose the console war by a considerable margin due to the PS3's inflated price tag. Then again, another part of me thinks that Sony will win the console war because they have dominated the scene for so damn long. A few people I've spoken to on the subject have said the same thing: "Who cares how much the PS3 is going to cost? It's made by Sony, so people are going to buy it regardless of the cost". It's a tricky one to predict, no doubt.
Look at what happened to Nintendo back in the early 90's. Everything was going so well, and then came Sony. A few years later, and Nintendo had been hit pretty hard - albeit not nearly hard enough to get put out of business. Who knows, perhaps we'll see a reversal of fortunes once more. I, for one, would like to see Ninty back on the throne. I'm so sick of seeing the same old generic PS2 and XBox games on the shelves. It's so boring.
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Precisely, the only huge hit to the wallet is in the initial price of the console itself, and that will go down in the long run. Cartridges failed because they were an overly expensive format that was faced with a format that was superior in every way but load times. In this case, Blu-ray IS the superior format, and some companies are already using it to full advantage (a single level in Lair can be up to 4GB).
Sony won't lose this war. I have no doubt that their position will be hurt, but regardless of how many titles have gone multi-platform so far, they still command a good list of triple-A titles that are exclusive and almost guarenteed console sellers. Also, I'd say Microsoft is dreaming if they think they're ever going to win the Japanese market, no matter how many Japanese developers start working on the system. Odds are that Sony will still decimate Microsoft over there, and that's a huge market, both in terms of gamers and developers.
I think it's really anybody's game at this point. In a few years, I wouldn't at all be surprised to see the Wii the uncontested ruler of Japan, and the PS3 and Xbox 360 pretty much neck and neck over here. The one year advantage for Microsoft, and a considerably lower price point, is going to make it much, much more difficult for Sony to catch up. Assuming they are able to retain third party support, which is likely, and they release enough exclusive stuff like Metal Gear Solid 4, Final Fantasy XIII, etc., I think they'll do well. Who knows? I, for one, would like to see Sony kicked off their high horse.
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