| talkingparrot said: FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL on so many of you. NONE OF YOU GUYS HAVE LIVED IN JAPAN. I have lived there for 6 months from a school trip. I'll tell you this much, any store in Akhiabara that you walk into, you'll hear people echo "the Power of PS3". The Japanese consumers know about the power of PS3, but the general mainstream consensus, on both Japanese forums, and critical reviews- is the machine's size and price. Once it gets streamlined, and the price drops, it will have a boom in Japan. The Japanese do not hate Playstation. If anything they hate the 360 with a passion. Enough to buy titles and trade them in as soon as they are done. |
Actually... I spent almost a year in Japan independently...
your argument falters though because GC was superior(technically speaking) to the PS2 was smaller and was cheaper. In the end it is games and unless PS3 get's "Streamlined" and drops price fast Sony might have to 'pay' developers other than first party to do it in order to subsidize losses up until the PS3 can be seen as profitable.
In the end we're saying the same thing, just you're saying like developers will wait when they have to answer to a company who answers to it's shareholders who want MONEY, not a promise of money in the future.
Edit: Essentially PS3 is in a race against time and money. Sony has to streamline and make it affordable as fast as possible and get enough people to buy it before developers move on for greener pastures as it were.
Edit 2: Of course if you go to Akihabara you're gonna hear about technology you're in freaking Akihabara... that's like saying you found a child molester in prison, you're bound to find technophiles in Akihbara Electric town! Having said that, I fu%king love Akihabara but I haven't been there in so long I want to go back but to stay any amount of time you either need to be on the teaching exchange program or rich..
