Yeah, the 110+ million PS2s out there really missed the market sweet spot.
Yeah, the 110+ million PS2s out there really missed the market sweet spot.
lol I would never say that I don't mind. I still want a new $500 bleeding edge console every two years.Quote:
Originally Posted by B-Ri
If Sony really built such an amazing brand in the Playstation the PS3 should be flying off of store shelves. The PS2 was hyped, initially, because of how much business the PS1 did. Maybe it's because they tried to move the market too fast and pushed technology too far and to more expensive pastures when the consumer base wasn't ready to pay that. Something's gone wrong for Sony so far this gen.
The PS3 is actually selling pretty well from a historical point of view. It's just the Wii is selling ridiculously well, thanks to all the "casuals" who are ruining our hobby.
What do you make of all of the developers who are "shifting focus" to the Wii? That's going to hurt Sony and Microsoft in the long run.
Name some.
Melf made a great point in either this thread or another. We keep hearing about all this Wii support, but where is it?
We've seen the DS steal franchises, but not the Wii. Every good, non-Nintendo console series is on the 360, PS3, or both. I don't see Devil May Cry, Silent Hill, Mercenaries, Grand Theft Auto, or a new numbered Resident Evil on the Wii.
Companies will put shitty cash runs on the Wii to take advantage of its stupid, female-laden (department of redundancy department) user base, but they're not putting the franchises that matter there.
One more factor is that if people are buying the Wii because it's cheap, that means they'll buy less games too. I'd rather sell 10 games a year to 100,000 people than 1 game a year to 500,000.
Technically they're buying more games, just all Nintendo's. I don't think the Wii is healthy for the kind of industry I personally want to see. But I place blame on Microsoft and Sony for not capitalizing or atleast trying to compete in some way with this new "idea". Six-axis is all we got and it sucks.
The Wii hasn't even been out for a year. I don't think it has staying power. It'll do great for one more Christmas. I don't buy that it will still be leading the pack by the end of 2008, let alone when new consoles come around in 2011 or so.
We'll see. I don't have the kind of faith you do in consumer competancy.