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Xen on 03 August 2008
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NJ5 said:
Xen said:
NJ5 said:

@Xen: Why do you think Sony's fall would have worse consequences for the rest of the industry than Nintendo's? I'm just trying to understand some alternate viewpoints here.

 

Decline of HD consoles, the X360 can't compete with Nintendo alone. Also, with a dominating X360 M$ would make their console expesive (no HD/truly hardcore system as an alternative), games development on one, badly selling+costly system is not profitable, leading to the eventual decline of the box, helped by a cheap and great Wii system, which will look very good against a pricey X360. Wii remains the sole "competitor", games remain on near 6th generation technological capabilities, looking weak against the PC, leading to the consoles weakening (Wii will still hold its ground though, casual support+classic titles will keep it rather strong). Same scenario possible if M$ drops out, as Sony needs M$, and M$ needs Sony. What I've shown here is really the worst case scenario, it may over the top, but in the worst case, very possible. If you want, I'll tell you why I think Nintendo quitting is bad.

Cheers!

 

 

That's not how I think it would play out... The HD consoles depend on each other to make HD games viable, so one being dropped would almost certainly cause the other one to be dropped. Developers would have to make do with Wii/DS, which I think is better than making do with 360/PSP/PS3.

 

So you do agree with me on one point, HD console decline. I don't think that only one console on the market is any good.