When will PS3 lose its momentum?!

[albionus]

Cool, I was referenced. Anyhow, the Wii’s lack of power could be seen as a benefit here. By being so different from the competition it forces games to be made specifically for it which is what it needs given the Wiimote. Had Nintendo gone with say a dual core 2.5 GHz processor with 256 MB of RAM (I recall reading that as a rumor in the Revolution days) then it would almost be certain that current spell of terrible PS2 ports with pathetic motion controls tacked on would quickly become terrible 360 ports with pathetic motion controls tacked on. Given Nintendo’s performance last go around there is no way they could have expected nor received greater 3rd party support this time. The price of the Wii would have also been over $300 putting Nintendo in direct competition with Sony and Microsoft and also locking out the casual/new gamer crowd that has powered the Wii’s sales. With Sony and Microsoft both taking the super-uber system route, Nintendo was given a golden opportunity to grab the casual gamer market before MS or Sony could react. With a large base, far lower development costs, and an incompatible system, 3rd party developers will have to make exclusives which means they may as well figure out how motion controls work. Nintendo had a year head start but the 3rd party people are catching on. Ignoring HD may be a cardinal sin to a hard-core gamer but it isn’t to the majority of the video game market that either doesn’t have HDTV or doesn’t care about the difference in graphics. System and game sales are a self feeding loop. The PS2 got a head start and rode the brand name and cheap DVD player to a large lead. That caused it to be the system that had multiple games for every possible genre and niche produced for it. That caused system sales to increase which caused more games to be made, and so forth. If the Wii (yes it is an if) continues to sell at its current rate it will be the system that gets all the niche and ok games. That's not to mention the Wii will be home to Dragon Quest X and FF XIV. I remember when Nintendo fanboys like myself used to make fun of the Playstation and its vast catalog of mediocre games while Nintendo has a smaller number of mostly excellent titles, but which one sold systems? If the PS3 doesn’t start picking up serious steam soon it will have a very hard time doing so later. I keep reading on these forums about Sony’s awesome 1st party games but looking at the best selling games of all time I see only 7 Sony titles, all either Gran Turismo or Crash Bandicoot, over 5 million despite it having back to back 100+ million systems. Nintendo has 9 despite selling ¼ as many systems the last two generations. Nintendo has proven it can survive with only 1st party AAA titles, it’s looking like we’re going to learn if Sony can do the same.