KBG29 said:
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Strange even Sony thinks that they will sell 11 million units by march 08. And they tought they'd sell 6 million by last march...
I think that branding is becoming outdated. As we saw in America that an unknown (to me at least) brand Vizio took over the LCD-TV leaders Samsung, Philips, Sharp en Sony in 3 months. They are cheap and offer a decent television and consumers like it.
I think that that has to do with the fact that due to the high complexity of modern electronics even large firms have to buy in components that they used to make themselves. So it is difficult to differentiate your product because everyone has access to it and existing products are not as good but not useless.
The PS2 was hard to develop for, but since it sold as hell the developers just had to live with it. Since the PS3 sold badly we keep seeing signs of developers not even trying to make the products as good, let alone better then other platforms. Last year ports were looking the same, this year they are same but a bit inferior and it looks to me that there is no sign for any change.
The Blue-ray device isn't as popular also (well the whole HighDefinition market isn't popular because they made is as easy to buy a HD set as it is to buy a graphics card: who the hell knows what "MSI NX8600GTS-T2D512EZ-HD" means). And from the Wii you can only say it has dated graphics, yet the graphics aren't fancy but decent and hey the PS2 is still popular and look at what graphics that machine has to offer. In the same context you can state that many games just come out on: Wii,PC,XBox360,DS,PS2. I mean... developers hardly care making a PS3 games and still firms like EA get hard critisism for their PS3 games while most others don't even bother trying. And the only negativism about the XBox360 is that it has a high failure rate, yet even that problem will fade away sometime and costumers don't even care as long as they have a replacement...just like many consumers turned in their PS3.
I think the PS3 will be a bit like the GameCube, not a failure not a succes neither but just a decent console. Thanks to low sales and no game division in Sony we can expect that the amount of must-haves will be a bit lower. For the rest Sony can better start focussing on the PS4 and not keeping PR-shitting around for 9 more years about their years old Cell processor and a lifespan of 10 years.
As for the fanbase i would be thankfull that firms like EA even bother bringing stuff to the PS3, because if they once have to consider porting a game to the PS3 or the Wii ... the choise could be surprisingly easy next time around.
