I finally understand Sonys 10 year plan!

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ssj12 said:

NJ5 said:
Your theory fails here:

Now then, when this happens - the PS3 has basically turned into the PS2

Not in any useful way. It won't have PS2's market share or userbase size, therefore developers won't keep making games for it forever.

Also, the PS2 was the weakest console in terms of graphics. This didn't prevent it from being supported for a long time. Even then it hasn't attained 10 years yet, why will the PS3? Graphics don't matter that much.

 

This isnt correct, when was the last and final Xbox game released? Madden 09. The Xbox was discontinued in 2006. This shows that it took 2 years for all developers to finally kill production for a discontinued system.

As long as Sony keeps a small but steedy userbase with the PS3 after than next PlayStation is released than there will be developers willing to make games. Keep a system alive till its unprofitable than kill it. What is the sense in not making every dime and penny you can?

Madden 09 is a bad example because EA is under contract from the NFL to relaease Madden on all viable systems...until sales fall under a certain number after the system is no longer under production or if game publishing completely stops for said system. I know this because I used to work for Visual Concepts(trust me it was a big deal) and left right becore the exclusivity contract for the NFL with EA. Madden 2008 sold over 200K this one under 100K. I am fairly certain that Madden 2010 is not longer required since I do believe the cut off is 100K but not certain.

Madden 2009 was not released for the GC since the last one only sold 60K. Howver tehy will be required to make it for the DS or Wii even if it sold 30K or 1K. They will also be required to make it for the PS2 for a while.

 

It has nothign to do with development time.