Crazymann on 13 December 2008
| mike_intellivision said: Just been reading this thread. Some thoughts cross my mind. Off-topic: 1. A lot of posting with less than fully developed intellectual arguements by members with less than 100 posts. I wonder if people are joining just to defend the PS3. 2. Saying that a Mod should not participate in a discussion is just folly. 3. CNN competes with MS on news! That has already been said, but should be noted again. 4. Making sales comparisons using small datasets is also folly. (This refers to the people who are extrapolating BR-DVD sales from Black Friday). 5. CNN has never had Jack Thompson on air and called him a "video game expert (or authority or something like that)." Fox News did that. More people watch the talk shows on Fox News. But more people watched the election results on CNN. On-topic: 1. The piece on CNN is opinion. But at least it backs up its opinions, which is more than what many here have done. 2. Sony has made many missteps this generation. Those are coming home to roost. (Taking out B/C really was not a wise thing in my opinion because it meant that people with PS2s would need to keep their old consoles -- making them free to choose their next system.). 3. LBP has not been huge in sales. 141k in US NPD in November, less than half of Wii Music. It may be a great game. It may be a critical success. But it has not moved as much product as many people thought it would. 4. Sony is getting really hurt by the Yen's increased value against the dollar. It did not prepare for it (Nintendo did a better job - at least according to another forum thread). 5. It is interesting that some people are saying Sony should drop out of the console race and concentrate on handhelds and software. It was what people said about Nintendo after the Gamecube. It was wrong then and it wrong now. Mike from Morgantown |
Indeed... plus Sony has ambitions of being THE set top box (the ultimate technological convergence.) This has always been their plan (and it is clearly seen in the design of the PS3. They cannot acheive this as a third pary publisher.
Just as "the day Nintendo ceases console production is the day Nintendo leaves gaming" - I can't remember the original quote, Sony will NOT go third party.
