Why I don't believe in "System Sellers"

[HappySqurriel]

Hus said:

HappySqurriel said:

The reason I see this as being a far more dramatic problem for the Xbox 360 and PS3 is because people were unwilling to spend $100 to $200 in previous generations to play some of the best games of the generation so I can’t see someone spending more than $300 for similar games this generation.

 They sure did not mind paying for the PS2 now did they.

 

You're right, they didn't mind paying for the PS2. People rushed out and bought the PS2 at a record pace even though it had no games and had a far worse line-up to the Dreamcast ...

KBG29 said:W

ell I got to say tha system sellers are pretty real, and if you don't believe in them I sure hope you don't believe in god either.

Now I will say they don't work the way a lot of my fellow Sony fanboys think they do. Just because X game comes out does not mean Y system will get a huge boost. The way system sellers work is 2 years in you have game abcdefghijk on sytem a, abcdef on system b, and abcd on system c. People then go oh my god system a has abcdefghijk, I want all of thouse I will get that system

I'm not so sure ...

I knew quite a few people who loved Mario, Zelda, were old-school Metroid fans, were huge Resident Evil fans, and loved playing multiplayer Super Smash Bros. or Mario Kart and yet didn't buy a Gamecube because they already owned an XBox or PS2 (or possibly both).

At any point in time (on a console that is selling reasonably well) there are always great games that you haven't played, and great games about to be released, which can prevent you from buying a new console for a handful of games.

 

 

I think a lot of people on this thread have stated what I was thinking better than I did and I'm surprised that this thread didn't degrade into a flame war ...