Why are so many people on message boards threatened by PS3?

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TheSteve said:
I don't know about threatened... I own all three systems, but the PS3 is my least favorite system. I don't dislike it when it does well, but I do prefer when the others do, since I feel they're better products. It's no different than liking two restaurants, and being happy that your favorite of the two is making more money-- as long as they both stay in business, it's all good.

It could be possible that reactions to your posts are more in response to your complete lack of logic. Sony is behind 360 by over 8m units sold. They continue to trail by about 30,000 units per week. In order to turn this around within this generation, they would need to begin outselling 360 by something like 300,000 units a month. You have to figure that it's only three more years at most before another system hits... Sony needs to reverse the trend that is leading toward a 9m unit disparity to a factor of ten just to break even by the end of this generation. It's not going to happen.

Sony is 3rd. They should try harder next time.

 

        I don't know about that.  As the gap widens in Japan between 360 and PS3 you will see more exclusives from Japanese studios coming to the PS3 which will give it the kind of games that fans of niche genres like jrpgs enjoy the most.  On the other hand, the PS3 will continue to do at least as well as it has been doing for awhile in the West.  It's 17 million consoles sold in the West will prompt Western developers to keep making games for the system.  This year in the West they will be getting Bioshock 2 which used to be a 360 exclusive and it has also been said that Mass Effect 2 is also probably heading to the PS3 next year, so that takes away quite a bit of the series that could have given big pops to the 360 in the West.

     Uncharted 2, God of War 3, and Infamous are going to do really well in the West and Europeans love Gran Turismo.

The PS3 is on the verge of really taking off during the next two years and making people forget about all of the negatives of its first two years.  I really think the PS3 is going to have a turnaround like the PSP did in Japan; however, it is going to be on a global rather than a regional scale.