| Final-Fan said: P.S. Credit is due to KruzeS, with whom I had a good-natured argument due to my original post in the dead thread. The back-and-forth helped me solidify my position, and I might never have started this thread if he hadn't responded in the first place. |
Thanks, Final.
One idea I briefly discussed with you in private, and that I'd like to introduce now, is how I think this might affect sales, market share and even games this generation.
I have a fealing that, unless this very noticeable trend changes, sales will be split regionally between the PS3 and the 360. With both consoles getting more or less the same games, and both being so expensive, there really isn't much of a point to owning both of them (except maybe for the most dedicated of core gamers). Given this, the healthy head start the 360 has in America, and its non-existance in Japan, this may mean we get to see both consoles "winning" 2nd place in different regions. Not only that, but combined, they may even be the healthy competitor to the radically different Wii, that the Genesis was to the SNES.
Of course, both consoles will still differentiate themselves through their exclusive games, and has Bodhesatva as pointed, there's an ongoing bloody battle over those. However the trend right now seems to be very much geared towards timed exclusives, or over exclusive content and improved versions/ports. Exclusive games for these consoles seem reduced to little more than 1st and 2nd party games (and these companies are no Nintendo), and the few 3rd party games the companies are willing to flat out buy (regardless of what they say). Because 3rd parties are loosing money on these systems. So, beyond that, and if that reagional trend does settle in, I can only see a few Japanese oriented exclusives coming to the PS3, and FPSs coming to the 360 and the PC exclusively.
But, what do y'all think?
