The race for 2nd place, Is i worth it?

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Sullla said:
No, it's completely meaningless who comes in second. The only people who care about this are Internet fanboys. In order for second place to matter, there would have to be a huge dropoff between second and third place, enough so that the third place platform would no longer be receiving multiplatform third-party titles. But that will never happen this generation, because:

1) 360 and PS3 sell at virtually indistiguishable levels (+/- 10% of one another)
2) 360/PS3 must share their game libraries to recoup development cost of HD games.

As a result, the two platforms have something like 80-90% of the same games, sell at pretty much the same rate, and are bought by the same demographics. The whole "competition" is pointless. The winner derives absolutely no advantage whatsoever. The XBox "winning" over the Gamecube had no bearing at all on this generation's Wii/360 fracas. At this point, either company spending itself into the red to "win" second place is mind-bogglingly stupid.

I've said this many times before: the 360/PS3 "war" is the biggest farce in gaming history.

 

You sir I agree with. Its the one thing I try my hardest to understand how two consoles that share a good portion of their games be in a war? My only curiosity is will this cause Sony/MS to develop more 1st parties to differentiate themselves. It's one of the things that Nintendo made sure of long ago that it can be self sustained by it's OWN ip's.