| d21lewis said: When the Gamecube started falling behind the original Xbox, some games I really wanted to play stopped getting ported. The games that were ported started being ported later than the other two consoles. There are actual reprecussions for not winning in the eyes of the consumer. |
I think in the last generation there were SERIOUS repurcussions to finishing last, eg wht d21lewis says above and even worse (*sob*), see what happened to the Dreamcast.
I honestly don't think that either the 360 or PS3 has anything to fear here though. Both have large enough market share to warrant further multiplatform development. The only way this changes is if the eventual PS3 pricecut does not change the current 360 to PS3 sales. Should that happen, then given the smaller PS3 userbase and the "supposed" size of the teams necessary to take advantage of the PS3, it may lose some 3rd party support. I do not however expect this to be the case (nor do I expect 10 billion PS3 sales when the price-cut happens but that is outside the scope of this discussion).
