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DonWii on 21 July 2007

Et tu, Rol?



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z64dan on 21 July 2007
omgwtfbbq said:
NorthStar said:
TheSource said:

There was a thread on Neogaf about this where a Sony rep responded directly to EGM and said to "stop making shit up"

Of course Sony also denied the pricedrop a few days ago...

But - a PS2 with waggle would not have the advantages of PS2. The 115 million PS2 owners without the controller would mean Waggle PS2 would enter the market behind Wii..and have to catch up. I sincerely doubt this will happen, especially since the PS2 as is continues to sell pretty well as it is. Frankly, without Sony's 1st party support, and with 20 million current gen consoles already sold, why would third parties support this venture either - especially at the risk of taking resources away from traditional PS2 games which continue to sell quite well.


1st of all 3rd party Would support this because the have to make games for graphical power of last gen anyway (Wii is last gen graphics)

 

2nd of all PS2 would most certainly have an advantage....only 10% of installed base would have to adopt the motion control for it to surpass Wii sales so far.

Lastly this would not "hurt" the PS3 those that want Next gen graphics and gameplay(AI) still have to choose 360 or PS3. This puts the Wii and PS2 in direct competition more so than now. Why couldn't Sony develop for PS3 and PS2? why abandon the most popular game system ever......In my opinion this would teach Nintendo a lesson if you 're"gen a system and add a feature what stops anyone else from doing that? a $100 motin controller with a bar would cost alot less than a $250 Wii and lets be honest cost is a BIG factor in Wii sales

let the thread die dude. It wouldn't work. Not only is the tech not in the PS2 for this to happen, but no one would buy it and no one would develop for it. Why develop for a system that has 0 install base and is only decreasing in sales?

Let the thread die. It ain't happening. 

 


I heard it will happen. My uncle works at Nintendo and he's very worried.



DonWii on 21 July 2007

Sony confirmed it to be false.



ItsaMii on 21 July 2007

Please thread, just die.



Satan said:

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homelesscarl on 21 July 2007

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DonWii on 21 July 2007

Amazing.... The more we want this thread to die, the more we post about it, the more it continues to live...



ItsaMii on 21 July 2007

I heard from a friend of my cousin`s girfriend that Nintendo is making a GBA that plays UMD and has online capabilities to kill the PSP. It will sell for U$ 29,99. IMO it is a great thing for Nintendo, GBA userbase is much bigger than PSP.



Satan said:

"You are for ever angry, all you care about is intelligence, but I repeat again that I would give away all this superstellar life, all the ranks and honours, simply to be transformed into the soul of a merchant's wife weighing eighteen stone and set candles at God's shrine."

HappySqurriel on 21 July 2007

I can just see what people would say if this came true ...

"See even Sony thinks the Wii is cool!"

At this point in time Sony can not be successful with this strategy because either they will get some success and sell extra PS2 units (which could cut into PS3 sales), or they would fail and end up looking like copy-cats (which could cut into PS3 sales). If they released this immediately after E3 2006 months before the Wii was released they could have been successfull, now it is just a formula for failure.

As for the comments about "If only 10% of the PS2 userbase bought this add on ..." if you discount extra controllers and memory cards I doubt 10% of the PS2 userbase as bought any addon; an optimistic estimate would have the add on selling at a similar level as Guitar Hero which was fantastic for a game but would fall far short of ever becomming competition for the Wii.

Essentially, this strategy would be about as effective as Sony releasing a touch screen add on for the PSP in order to compete against the Nintendo DS; not only would it be ineffective it could damage their brand as everyone takes a moment to say "What kind of monkeys are running this company?"



DonWii on 21 July 2007

1700 posts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Slow day....



NorthStar on 21 July 2007
shams said:

Won't happen - it would surely hurt Sony too much (admitting Nintendo was right, Sony was wrong). Will damage the PS3, and boost Wii sales in the long term.

 - no existing games would support it

 - gfx on a PS2 SUCK compared to other consoles these days. It couldn't even handle a decent WiiSports type game.

 - sensor bar? Or would it have no pointer? With no pointer it IS a SIXAXIS controller (except for shape).

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Sony would be better off to release their own "PS3Sports", that purely uses the Sixaxis movement - maybe in a shell of some sort. Then they could promote the better gfx, better online play, more content, etc. 


Wait I thought the SMALL gfx difference wouldn't matter . PLEASE DO NOT TELL ME A WII owner cares about Graphics. I sure would like the folks at nintendo to bring up the graphical differences between the PS2 and the Wii.