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For the first time in my life as a gamer...we're literally walking into a next-gen scenario where no one has any idea whose going to be the market leader. Now I'm not saying the expectations going in are always the same when you're coming out of a gen. At the beginning of this gen everyone assumed the PS3 would dominate simply because of how the PS1 and PS2 crushed the competition. BUT as we all know Nintendo took the crown with Sony coming up in last place.

Now that we're here about to start the cycle again, you would think Nintendo would have a stranglehold on this shit...but as we can see...they clearly don't. So going into next gen. Outside of their obvious financial situation as a whole company. I would say Sony's biggest problems going into the next gen would be Public Perception and Microsoft. As of right now, the public loves the PS brand. They love the games coming to it, the price points and marketing. So as long as they can keep up in the public's good books while showing the consumer they deserve our dollars (via great games off the BAT we shouldn't have had to wait over a year to get the first GREAT PS3 game outside of Resistance) and whether or not they can compete with Microsoft. Right now...Next-Gen is anyones game



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ShadowSoldier said:
For the first time in my life as a gamer...we're literally walking into a next-gen scenario where no one has any idea whose going to be the market leader. Now I'm not saying the expectations going in are always the same when you're coming out of a gen. At the beginning of this gen everyone assumed the PS3 would dominate simply because of how the PS1 and PS2 crushed the competition. BUT as we all know Nintendo took the crown with Sony coming up in last place.

Now that we're here about to start the cycle again, you would think Nintendo would have a stranglehold on this shit...but as we can see...they clearly don't. So going into next gen. Outside of their obvious financial situation as a whole company. I would say Sony's biggest problems going into the next gen would be Public Perception and Microsoft. As of right now, the public loves the PS brand. They love the games coming to it, the price points and marketing. So as long as they can keep up in the public's good books while showing the consumer they deserve our dollars (via great games off the BAT we shouldn't have had to wait over a year to get the first GREAT PS3 game outside of Resistance) and whether or not they can compete with Microsoft. Right now...Next-Gen is anyones game

Best comment of the day bro!  Great post




       

kowenicki said:
Identity


Thats what popped into my mind when I read the headline, so +1.



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More seriously, though, I agree with both Kowen and Badgegnome. Identity and Sony themselves are the biggest obstacles.



Pirates.



PS3. They are not ones to abandon their previous consoles like Nintendo or Microsoft. That could really end up being a mistake and I think this is what hurt the PS2 to PS3 transition.



Hackers...



Sony, their biggest failures are those of their own design, has been like this for years, it's something they need to put a stop to.