GranTurismo said:
About the price reduction of the system, i live in canada and the price of the 360 has dropped $100 since last year. And the PS3 was sold out last christmas at $660, after christmas it went up to $700, right now i can buy a PS3 for $550. The wii is still the same price at $280. It would seem logical that the 360/PS3 will have a better christmas overall this year then last, the wii will see a better christmas due to more of them being available and games like brawl and galaxy. But the wii will fail to live up to demand and run out of units, the 360/PS3 being the only other console on the market except for the PS2 will sell alot more then they would of if the wii never ran out. The wii will sell the most units for the time being due to the cheap price and AAA games being out, while the PS3 will have to wait until the end of 08 to meet that same goal. During 08 the most popular game ever will be coming out, this game is GTA4 and you can't get it for the wii only the 360/PS3, this game will drive massive sales of the 360/PS3 during 08. Regarding third parties, can you show me some examples of major games being canceled for the PS3 and going to the wii? All major third party game will go to 360/PS3/PC, while spin-offs will go to the wii, all major sports titles and FPS games are still being made for the PS3 while the wii is forced to live off the last gen ports because EA won't develop games from scratch for the system when they can make more money on the 360/PS3/PC one. |
I never suggested that games would be canceled for the PS3/XBox 360 and moved to the Wii, just that third party support was going to continue to shift towards the Wii ... Consider that between now and January 1st 2008 the number of third party games each platform will get is the following:
Wii: 105
PS2: 85
XBox 360: 67
PS3: 50
As each of those projects is completed the publisher will be forced to evaluate which platform they will be supporting with this development team in the future; the Wii will have outsold the XBox 360 and PS3 combined this year and will (most likely) take the lion's share of this support, the PS2 will have outsold both the XBox 360 and PS3 this year but will be expect to see lower sales next year so will see reduced support, and the XBox 360 and PS3 will likely see the remainder of the support put into cross platform development.
Certainly, the XBox 360 and PS3 will have several big games released next year but with less "Meat and Potatoes" games being released every month as well as high console prices will prevent these games from selling as well as some people would expect.
