Pristine20 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Pristine20 said:
slowmo said:
A famous idiom for you "fool and his money are easily parted", that would quite easily descirbe the person who paid $15,000.
The PS3 is the true successor to the PS2, just this time they didn't have a year head start and spend a fortune on securing third party exclusives. The only criticism I level at Sony is they completely cocked up their analysis on what people would be willing to pay for a console and the penalty is a overpriced product versus peoples perceived value.
I can say with 120% confidence Sony will not release their next console a year after Microsoft do. Microsoft set the value expectations the PS3 had to follow and ever since then its been catch up. |
I can guarantee that 90% of the people who bought a 360 before the ps3 launched had an xbox. Why does this matter? M$ headstart didn't really do anything to sony's brand. Most simply waited for the ps3 to launch. It was the year 2007 when everyone realized that even after the price was a no-no, 3rd parties weren't supporting the ps3 like the ps2 so they just bought 360s for cheaper instead. Some loyalists like myself stuck with the ps3 though.
2007 was the fall of sony in the console market. After that year, most wouldn't ever pre-approve of them and be willing to spend $15, 000 on their consoles again
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Your guarantee is incorrect. I would be willing to bet that it's split right down the middle between the PS2 and the Xbox owners of last gen. The 360 is the only affordable hardcore system with various genres and multiplatforms that the PS3 already has.
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Why would a ps2-only owner have bought the 360 early? To play Perfect Dark Zero or Lost Planet or maybe it was Enchanted Arms? LMAO. Go back to the ps2's history, you'd find that FPS games were essentially irrelevant on the console. 360 carried that "shooterbox" logo on it's head for a while till it was proved otherwise but that definitely didn't happen in it's first year.
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Who said they had to buy it early. I have gone back to PS2's history and PS1's as well and looked at the exact reason why they had so many buyers. It's because they were the cheaper systems which had the most 3rd party support which resulted in larger libraries. It's not that hard really (split second thought) and Microsoft did the exact same thing. I have alot of Japanese-centric friends who bought a 360 just because as far as JRPG's are concerned it has the most JRPG's. They have no respect for Microsoft as a corporation or Sony anymore. The 360 was the affordable HD system with the larger library with the diverse titles just like the PS2 was the more affordable system with the larger library before. Cutting the exclusive 3rd party support from Sony is what made it come down to price for games to the majority of last gen consumers.
