I have been reading a fair amount recently since the sudden massive rise in Xbox 360 sales a number of PS3 supporters and often format agnostic members making statements like this.
"Don't worry about it, just enjoy your games and the top lineup in 09"
This is in relation to the sales gap between Xbox 360\PS3. I think this is an extremely dimwitted thing to say, and is placing far too much good faith in a company to carry on producing games\support should their machine become unprofitable or less profitable and therefore lose support from third parites and so on.
I'm sure many of you remember the n64? The Saturn? Gamecube? Xbox (although other factors also contributed)?
What do they have in common?
They all sold reasonable well for a time and gradually faded into oblivion due to
THIRD PARTY SUPPORT
Where does this support come from? A decent user base relative to the competition.
I'd like to ask a question based on this. as far as I can see, independently verified fact. Well more than a question really. I have heard that dreaded line a few times in the past for all of the console listed, be it from forums in recent times or gaming mags in "the good old days".
The point is that.
The only reason you can continute to enjoy new exciting varitety of games is because a decent number of people are buying your console relative to the competion's conolse on the market.
Its quite late, you know where I'm going with this. So my question is simple.
Why so positive\lack of conern? Blind faith? Ignorance?
I see bad JuJu, and you see bed of roses? What are the true implications if things continue the way they are for the PS3 in terms of 3rd part support....The knock on effects of that inevitably decreasing -> Spiral of destruction? Or me being stupid?
