"b.) somebody successfully invades their sub-market. Until then, these doom-n-gloom declarations are about as realistic as the claims made back in 1987"
The plan with Little Big Planet is to do just that. If it lives up to what is supposed to be its potential, then it should be a current gen combination of Super Mario Bros platforming with Excite Bike's level design, yet chewier than both. And Sony successfully did this type of thing on the PS1 with Spyro the Dragon and Crash Bandicoot stealing the thunder from games like Mario 64. And there's nothing stopping the PS3 from having its own fitness game, for example, that could take advantage of the PS3's technological capabilities. All they would have to do is build a controller for it. It could even have more exercise types than the Wii because the PS3 has all the space made available by a Blu-Ray disc to do so. Heck, they could design a game that was a complete tutorial in mediatation and yoga leading from beginner difficulty to advanced levels of competency. Look at the DS it started to become popular because of its Brain Training games, well the PSP went out and got its own brain training games and in recent months more software has been selling for the PSP than the DS, and there have been quite a few weeks where it has beaten both the Wii and DS in consoles sold in Japan this year.
My most anticipated games: Whatever Hideo Kojima is going to do next, Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy Versus XIII, Gran Turismo 5, Alan Wake, Wii Sports Resort. Cave Story Wiiware.
