mrstickball said:
Microsoft makes money per X360 sold...Even at $200. That's not to mention the massive amount of cash they make per Pro or Elite, which have pretty decent profit margins (since both merely come with bigger HDDs that are cheap to produce). On the other hand, the Playstation 3 is nearly impossible to judge. They should be close to breaking even on each PS3 sold, or making a very slight profit - but they are most likely on the razor edge - if Sony wanted to make any money this generation, they'd need to keep the current price until they can get the PS3 to ~$300 before the next price drop. You didn't think losing their customers, 3rd party exclusives, brand name recognition, the PS head honcho and $3.5 bln was bad enough? Wow, what's the world turning to? lol. Mind you, they've already settled for 3rd place. You won't hear it from PR though because they'll only bring you good news. The new race is the race for profitability especially with the global economy threatning the entire fabric of the company. But they were still selling a decent number of systems. That meant that one could always hope against hope that the lead the X360 had would diminish, and with forward momentum, they could re-capture 3rd parties, and gain back a good following. But with the X360 enjoying comfortable leads (which are very unlikely to change over Christmas), it's impossible to see a good future for their system. No 10 year plan. No more exclusives outside of 1st and 2nd party IPs. No price drops until the system is virtually irrelevant. And if the trend continues, whatever shred of exclusives the Playstation 3 now has (FFvXIII) are most likely toast. The good news? It gets more and more likely I can get Valkyria Chronicles on my X360 :) |
Small games don't get massive port requests which means it's unlikely. The only game 360 fans have been clamoring for is mgs4. FFvXIII is coming for 360 as I've stated multiple times.
You don't think sony's selling a decent # of systems now? If you ask me, they still are, just nowhere close to M$ or Ninty.
As for 3rd parties, multiplat would remain 1st choice. Only PC devs have a chance of skipping a ps3 release. The x360 gap remains too small to justify exclusives. Expect only more exclusive DLC for 360 and gimped ps3 ports.
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