Will PS3 have a successful year in 2009?

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Luney Tune said:

NJ5 said:

@amirnetz: I don't think 3rd parties will be ignoring Sony, their userbase is still big enough to make it worth it to port games.

 

Sega Saturn, N64, Dreamcast, Gamecube, Xbox. They all had a 10 million+ worldwide userbase, and they all had games that were million sellers. Yet when it became clear to third party developers that these consoles would never come anywhere close to selling as well as the #1 system, third party support dried up almost overnight.

I think it all boils down to retailers, especially the big chains. As long as they believe the PS3 has a future and continue to promote the console, third parties will continue their support for it. But if retailers begin to loose faith in the PS3, third party support *will* dry up fast.

 

Yeah but this gen, 3rd parties don't know what to do with the "#1 beast console" ala the ps2 last gen which is the wii this gen and the xbox and GC of this gen (the 360 and ps3 respectively) still don't have enough sales difference between them to justify single platform releases.

Lastly, however irrelevant JP may be compared to the world this gen, the last place console isn't last there so 3rd parties whose games aren't wii-compatible and sell decently in JP( think MGS series-type games) still cannot ignore the ps3.