| forevercloud3000 said: @ misterd Thank you for aknowledging my argument, as many would just try to brush it aside without confronting it :). A: Just because we have seen this type of misleading media attention before does not mean we should just accept it or condone it in any way. It is an appalling detriment to society and we should be trying to end it not feed into it. B: There is no way the Wii can release a system that will be better then the PS3 at a lower price point, that is logically impossible. The wii's main draw in is it's very low price. I must say though now that the Wii has drawn in the crowd, a new crowd just wants it becuase it seems to be the it thing. I am still a firm believer that the Wii is a FAD, you dont have to agree with me. The system in no way deserves the gleeful attention it is getting with the least games, least quality, least graphics, least bang for your buck system out right now. C:We were going through a recession as soon as gas prices started to sky rocket.Its just that the media and government alike have only recently accepted that we indeed are going through another one. And the PS3 did as good as a system at that price point could in the very beginning. And last I checked, The PS3 started to outsell the 360 before last Christmas, BEFORE the price cut, by a good margin. Like I said before, only of recently the PS3 has fallen behind the 360 with it's drastically low pricing sku (Which by the way is a complete rip off on the ignorant consumer). D: It is not the fact that people are defecting. It is that people only have so much money to spend on games. THe 360 was the lowest priced one so people who did not have a system simply chose the cheapest for the right now. This doesn't mean they won't get a PS3 later either. I have seen a much higher number of PS3s sold at my Gamestop of employment of recently. I think many consumers are just waiting out another price cut, that they thought would hit this christmas for the PS3, they thought wrong. E: Sony knew after the apparent marketing tactics of MS that they would not be able to compete in bidding wars with MS. That would be suicide. Its a waste of money and could be put to better use. That better use is first party development for they, make you immediate money, no middle man, will always be exclusive, and are self reliant. No other company besides Nintendo could come close with such a strong 1st party. If Sony can keep pumping out higher quality exclusives that can only be available on their system(Killzone 2, Heavy Rain, Uncharted, HS, GODIII, MAG, R2, etc) then 3rd party developers will want a piece of the action as well. Each exclusive PS3 game acts like a display of the system's true power, and what it can potentially offer 3rd parties. |
It would be great to live in your world where creative directors artistic-centric visions are top priority in a selecting a platform for their game to land on. Unfortunately commercial profits and greed rule the world and any marginal technical advantage the PS3 offers is negated by the bigger install base and ROI to be had on the 360. This is a business that they're trying to run and development costs this gen have skyrocketed to an unprecendented level and any business decision to be exclusive on the PS3 will be likely viewed as a high-risk gamble.
As of today the PS3 really hasn't shown us much of a technical superiority in any case - blaming the developers or architecture learning curve notwithstanding they haven't shown us why we should pay the extra $200. Therein lies the problem - being more expensive is fine...as long as the added benefits are there in its' primary function, that of playing games. It's increasingly looking like it's twice as dear because of blu-ray only, a secondary function that most people with SDTV are conscious of the fact that they will reap no benefits whatsoever and can therefore not see the added value.
It's really not hard to play 'Devils advocate' to the banner headline question, as this thread has presented a plethora of reasons that justify the media's current stance, none more prudent than the numbers on the home page. Find/Replace 'Hate' with 'Fall from grace'.
