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Geldorn on 04 August 2008
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Garcian Smith said:

 

slimeattack said:
Garcian Smith said:
Prediction: The PS4 will debut Christmas 2011, while third-party support for the PS3 will drop off sharply after Q1 2009. From this news, it seems as though the PS4 will simply be a more powerful PS3, probably with a motion controller. The Xbox 720 will debut in the same year, and be both less powerful and cheaper, also with a Wiimote-like controller.

Meanwhile, Nintendo will continue to ride the Wii wave and debut the Wii 2 with built-in MotionPlus technology and full Wii BC in 2012. Most next-gen multiplatform games will be Wii2/X720.

 

Please stop trolling. Why would PS3 support crash in Q1 2009? Because the developers will go to the Wii? In that case 360 support would drop even more. And how can you know on which platforms the next-gen multiplat games will be?

 

PS3 support will crash in Q1 '09 because there's no major third-party PS3 exclusives outside of FF Versus XIII announced for it after that. All of those PS360 action games and FPS's we're seeing announced for TBA '09? A large number of them are former PS3 exclusives that developers took multiplatform in order to cut their losses. I'm willing to bet that a lot of them will be canceled or shoved out the door in an unfinished state as well between then and now.

Just look at the number of third-party exclusives announced for the PS3, 360, and Wii thus far in 2008. The Wii netted a bunch; the 360 got a couple of games from Square thanks to their "partnership," as well as a few other games that they threw a boatload of money at; and the PS3 got... well... nothing notable, that I can think of. The tide has already shifted toward the Wii, but it probably won't be until next year that we see the full effects.

For further proof, look at the fact that PS3 fans continually list vaporware like Kurayami and Ni-Oh in their "PS3 exclusives" lists.

Also, the accusation of "trolling" has to be the most overused thing on the forums right now.

 

As long as PS3 software sells, third party support won't drop. And since PS3 software sales have only been going up, I'm thinking you should rethink your idea that the only third party support that counts is exclusive games.

Besides, stating that all those PS360 games where originally PS3 exclusive is not the same as proving they where. I could just as easilly say the reverse and we'd have no way of telling since most of those games where announced as multiplatform games to begin with.