| FishyJoe said: Unless the PS3 finds the casual audience to grow into, all the price cuts and technology won't matter. Much of the PS2 late life sales can be attributed to the casual audience. Without that casual user growth, the long term prospects of the system is limited. |
Exactly PS3 needs to find the casual audience. This could only be accomplished by changing strategy. This means a new console or "upgrade PS3". Is the Ps3 future-proof to make this "upgrade" possible? That will remain unknown until next gen starts. We can only speculate about the advantages of nextgen over this gen.
If the Ps3 drops it's price 360 will also drop. Eventually PS3 might outsell 360 by a small margin. I agree that "only" price cuts won't matter.
Technology in terms of bigger and better won't be successful. Also agree on that one. Adding a new innovative technology will do the "trick" (casual audience). This could be 3D gaming (bios-upgrade). If games are releasing in 2010 PS3 could have a headstart of 1 or maybe 2 years.
Just like motion controls did the "trick" for Nintendo, so can 3D gaming do it for Sony.
Gamecube also had motion controls planned, but Nintendo has chosen wisely to make a brand new console. Sony faces the same problem, because the public thinks the PS3 is a high-end gaming console, while the new PS3 is aiming for 3D casual gaming.
