Zucas said:
bigjon said:
Zucas said:
I wanted to never think this to be true, but it makes sense. I mean MS has been throwing around their money weight to monitor where big products go and have screwed Ninty and Sony in that fashion. But it in doing it, they didn't help themselves either. What we are left with is more gamers buying PSP and DS and less buying the consoles which puts devs at more risk considering those two will have lots of competition in the software. Then we are left with big games on 360 for the crowd that don't sell a lick and none on the PS3 thereof or Wii.
However, I don't think its the only issue. I think another issue is Sony's heavy price point and even higher development costs and Nintendo's appearance of not having 3rd party games sell on it. Thus devs are left with 3 choices, none which are good, and MS is the one paying them off. So from the start it seems that MS is the best choice so they go that way, their games flop, and are left with minimum profits. But, we are seeing a shift away from this as the PS3 gets cheaper and Wii gets a larger userbase. We'll probably see a drift away from 360 development for Wii development. PS3 development will still be minimal but it will start to increase as the userbase grows as well.
But it's an interesting concept. |
ZOMG
someone actually seems to have read the post and understood what I was implying.
Thank you Zucas, I can always count on you for a fairly sane take on things.
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Well it makes sense with current trends and its quite logical. It really explains why PSP and DS have taken off so much while the consoles haven't. I still think it has to be tied in about what I said about PS3 and Wii but yea it's a good point.
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Interesting then. So when Microsoft joins the hand held race, I wonder how many will boycott the hand held market in Japan?
