| Paul_Warren said: "Microsoft simply did very well this gen, Sony didn't." Well as I've pointed out before, this generation is far from over. And with Sony set to bring out better games than the competition in 2009 and beyond, Microsoft bringing out their next console in either late 2009 or 2010 at a high price point and possibly using a medium for its games that is either prohibitively expensive for or that the majority of gamers can't use effectively at this point in time (digital streaming) and the Wii 2 coming out in 2011, but as hinted at in early reports being no more powerful than either the 360 or PS3; then Sony still has a solid chance to win this generation. |
No. Sony is long gone from getting anywhere close to #1 this generation.
You can't go 3-4 years into the generation and put out your blockbuster games and expect people to flock to your system (and even if the games were good, who's going to pay that rediculous price for them when theres a Wii and X360 for near half the price?). Nintendo tried that in 1998 with Ocarina of Time, and it didn't work. By that time, Playstation had every ounce of momentum and was running away like a gravy train on biscuit wheels.
How, pray tell, can a console come back from a 20 million unit deficit built in 2 years to beat another system? It's never happened, and it won't happen.
This I can assure you of: Even if 2009 is Sony's best year, Nintendo is going to add another 10 or 15 million units on that 20m lead, and Microsoft will fight for every inch to make that 5 million+ unit lead stay that way.
They didn't get cocky. They just got dumped by a lot of their fans that preferred a console that had one "great" game instead of Great games in all genres like the PS2. Well going on four years later, the 360 has managed to come up with two "great" games. So, if current trends continue, in the next gen Microsoft will have a console with three "great" games, but the video game market will truely be cheated out of all of the Great games in every genre that it used to have which were on Playstation consoles.
No. Sony got cocky. They made an overprieced boondoggle of a system that the average consumer just can't afford. How many Xbox 360's have been sold at the $400+ price point? How many Saturns? How many 3DO's? How many Neo Geos? It's just a price consumers won't afford.
And I don't get how you think the X360, at any given time, only had 1 "great" game. It's had many great games, and has always had a massive edge on the Playstation 3 in terms of it's gaming library - The Playstation 3 has 3-4 games that define itself against the Xbox 360. The Xbox 360 has about 10-12. When the casual consumer looks at the prices, the libraries (and also the uniqueness of the Wii), there's very little reason to buy the Playstation 3.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
