Sony Says There Are No Plans for Further PlayStation

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Neoraf said:

Sony out of the market = Good for everyone.
And I mean it.

Look at the war between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray... good thing there is (at last) a winner (Blu-Ray).
As long as there is no clear winner, the mass market will never go on and adopt the new tech.

Now that there is only ONE HD MEDIUM for movies:

- Consumers buy Blu-Ray without fear.
- Blu-Ray sales are growing fast.
- Studios releases more movies on Blu-Ray
- The cycles goes on.

The same thing apply to gaming:
But...
There is no clear winner in the HD GAMING war.
People, instead of jumpin in, are waiting... and this hurts the gaming evolution.

Less sales, less devs profits, less ground-breakin barriers, less risks taken, more static evolution of the interactive entertainment.
One medium, Good for everyone.

Who cares if THE HD console stay at 400$ the whole generation.
People wants to invest in something that will last.
And for now, nobody knows where the HD gaming is going. Uncertain territories... no investments.

We need a winner as soon as possible.
For gamers... and for developers.

You're joking?

Less participants in anything is worse. 

Have you ever taken an economics course?  Do you know anything about competition, and about how the lack thereof makes participants unlikely to find push forward in creativity and inventive things?  And pricing.

If there was no PS3, MS would not have dropped the price of the 360.  They would have been in second place, by a long shot, and never even fathomed dropping the price.  It'd be no point being that far away in sales.  They'd also not have bought all these exclusive games.  It'd be no point, if they were in last place.  No competition in the HD consoles would mean there would be no incentive for games to be put on the 360 when the Wii is handidly outselling it.  The 360 would be doing horribly had it not been for the PS3 being here.  The PS3 allows publishers/devs to put out games on both platforms, since the combined userbase is higher (right now) and in the future, comporable to the Wii. 

Let's look down the line to 2009 and beyond. 

Wii will likely be at 80 or so million at the end of next year, PS3 will be (hopefully) somewhere near 30, and Microsoft probably at 40 depending on if this is peak year or not.  Now there's no reason to justify not putting a game on the HD consoles, just for the Wii's userbase, but if it was 80 for the Wii and 40 for the 360, where do you think the games would go?  The potential sales of 80 million would far outweigh any sort of monentary return from MS for lower overall sales.  And since the games would be going to the Wii, so would the Sales, and the gap would widen.

As much as people don't like Sony, they are co-dependant with MS.  Which is why neither company should leave the console race.  If either left, the remaining company would be dead in the water.  Which is why it's weird that people are frothing at the mouth for this to happen, because either way, both of the consoles would go down.

Of course it's not going to happen, but the mere fact that people want it to is telling how little people know about business.