| woopah said: I believe that this year will be 360s peak year, tho of course this is mostly all guess work right now. Whilst the list of games given by CaptD is impressive i believe that both nintendo and sony have bigger lists for 2009 so far in terms of first party (not sure about sony). Microsoft will of course have more games to announce but then again so wil the others. Sony has said they will announce several blockbusters early next year. for nintendo i dont think we have their Q1 2009 lineup yet. none of their 9 games announced at their conference were internally developed |
Yeah, and much like the "year of the PS3" and "PS3 will overtake the 360 in....." predictions, this comment could literally be copy and pasted into last year's posts. At the end of the 2007 holidays everyone was saying that 2007 was definitely 360's peak year and that 2008 would be the year of the PS3. It wasn't.
My point is that we just don't know. Unless you work for MS, Sony, or Nintendo, you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. They all three have future games and plans under wraps. It's the things that we have no idea about that will decide the future of this gen. Sure it's fine to speculate and make guesses; that's what this site is all about. But gamers themselves are hardly marketing experts or experienced business people. There are very few posters on this site who have even an elementary idea of the way business works. You can see them a mile away. They're the people who post demands for a $100 PS3 price cut NOW and claim that Sony will lose the "war" unless this happens.
The console war is a fictitious war that is fought in web forums. There will never be a winner. Know why? Because nobody will ever agree on what the criteria even are to "win" the war. Game sales? Hardware sales? Attach rate? Longevity? You could spin it a zillion different ways and make it look like your console of choice won. For example, lately the PS3 fanboys are clinging to this ridiculous idea of the "10 year plan".
I try to stick to this to keep my sanity: I love my 360, MS is showing no signs of abandoning it, the public is showing no signs of abandoning it, therefore I feel NO need to go buy a PS3.
