Yeah i really think it is just to for the fanboys to make sure that sony fails.... i'm a 360 owner and don't like stealth game so i really don't care about MGS.... but I would have been happy to see peter moore with a MGS tatoo at the pre E3 MS press conf... and on the same hand i'm glad that splinter cell (which I don't like either) is exclusive XB.... it's a fanboy war their weapons are the exclusive blockbusters..... that's the way it's going to be for ever.....
now i'm not a hardcore fanboy either, i'm more a marketing fanboy.... I love VGchartz and to compare the charts every now and then...
now I heard someone saying that every XB fans are old PS fans.... I'll have to slightly desagree on that one... don't forget all the PC gamers who are tired of upgrading their PC every year.... and the old console gamers like me who never liked PS and stop buying consoles after the death of the dreamcast.... look at all the games on XB coming from DC, PGR, panzer dragon, DOA, shenmue, phantasy star online, jet set radio, crazy taxi etc...
I'm a geek and never liked sony even before they did consoles..... I feel like all their products are just one more among the list of electronic entertainement they are on...... I know better than a lot of people that it's all about money (i'm in the marketing and advertising business) but some companies prefer to focus on a couple markets, other like Sony are just going in every directions... and with those companies usually you can find better products with companies which narrow more their markets
and it's not only a question of opinion, when you look at benchmarks on lot of their products sony is not first in most of them either on the quality or the price..... So yeah for me Sony is to the electronic and entertainement industry what some people say Microsoft is to the operating system industry....
so to conclued on the off subject I don't really care as agamer who wins the war, as long as the system I have doesn't end up like dreamcast..... on the other hand I'd like to have my pronostic right... I give 1. WII, 2. 360 and 3. PS3.... now i'm pretty sure about the PS3being behind the XB 360, just because MS is their to win and will use all the means to succeed, it's just the WII i'm not sure of.... I'm sure they are going to pass the PS and 360 on the short run... but will it stand that position on the long run with the graphic limitation of the console.... I'm not sure people in 3 years will be still crazy about that system... but hey nintendo might come up with a new system before that...
and to conclued on the MGS subject... I think a lot of people on the sony part were tired of their lies (ie PS2 fake graphic quality during their trailers) they went to XB and want that game... the XB fan wants to see sony die and some want the game without to have to buy a PS3... but at the end I don't think the life of Sony depends on MGS, the real fight will be this christmas and if Sony doesn't come back at least a litle bit MGS won't be enough as it comes in 2008, the end of the year exclu on XB are going to boost their sales, and they didn't uncover the new exclusive for next year at the last E3 but looking at what they came up with this year I'm pretty sure MGS or other past PS exclu won't be powerfull enough and in my opinion they don't have any new licence who can fight nintendo and MS right now ...
global conclusion wait and see but it doesn't smells good for PS and that's the marketing instinct speaking here.... in my opinion the Sony strategy at E3 was really bad they put down a lot of their cards for next year down to early for this year and about their next year releases (i know not all of them) and MS played it safe with a nice end of the year line up and can get ready to plaster Sony at liepzig game convention or the TGS... without talking about an eventual X07... because I don't see MS doing the same at those convention than what they did at E3.... I see a price cut back for the end of the year with the new component engraving size or bundles at the same price than a premium, new exclusivs for next year announced and maybe a port of some PS exclu (which really isn't that necessary for this year announcement anyway).... for me Sony looked scared at E3... like they had to say "hey guys don't worry this year will still be so so but next year we have a couple blockbusters".... well guess what one more year it's a lot for that market and they are going to miss the chrismas rush for this year again....
so one more time wait and see, but personnally I don't see Sony coming back on that generation....
edit: a couple correction, and sorry for the lenght :) I hope you read all the way down ;)
