Sony might come back? I can't shake the feeling

[HappySqurriel]

vthokiesrmoo said:

@ happy squrriel-

How do you figure there's only 3 to 4 years left of sales for PS3? As long as TV's are sticking around 1080p as their defining resolution for a good amount of time the PS3 will be a valuable product that will sell.

PS2 still selling today shows that the PS3 can not only attain its 10 year goal, but do it quite easily. Especially given the fact the PS3 is much more prepared for the future than the PS2 ever was.

 

The hardware might be great, but as long as third party publishers have limited resources and need to allocate those resources in a way to provide healthy profits to their investors a trailing console will have difficulty getting support late in a generation ... After all, look at how the PSP's hardware is still very good for any portable game any developer would consider creating and yet fewer and fewer games are being created for it so that the publishers can focus on the far less powerful Nintendo DS.

Look at it this way, in 2010/2011 we will (probably) see the begining of a new handheld generation and in 2011/2012 we will see the begining of a new home console generation. When publishers have to allocate resources to the PC, XBox 720, Wii HD, Nintendo DS Advanced, PSP2, Wii, and Nintendo DS do you really think they're going to have several teams of 50+ developers to continue to support a platform with ~40 Million units sold?