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Jereel Hunter on 14 April 2009
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Soleron said:
Lostplanet22 said:
Jereel Hunter said:
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It absolutely does. If an unknown has made the Wii, it may be big, but it wouldn't be as big as the Wii is today. (Nintendo is both a strong brand, despite the prior 2 generations, and more importantly they have big franchises)

Whereas Sony's brand name is what allowed them to even survive this generation. If the Sony PS3 had been something like the "Acer GameStation", and released at $600, vs the 360 in it's second iteration, it would have bombed. the 360 would be over 40m sales and the GameStation would have had the plug pulled after <5m sales. Sony's powerful brand was the only thing that prevented them from basically ruining their own gaming division.

 

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Ah. I'd like to take issue with this. I don't think 360 and PS3 sales are either/or. In fact, I don't believe the 360 or Wii would have sold a single unit more if the PS3 did not exist. A lot of the PS3 system sellers so far have been made by Sony. If Sony did not exist these games wouldn't have been made and the gamers who bought them probably wouldn't have spent those dollars on alternative games because those alternatives wouldn't be Sony-quality or continuing the franchises they loved. I can't think of any big PS3 exclusive save MGS4 that Sony didn't develop, publish and/or throw huge amounts of cash and dev help at.

I think the reason most of the people who currently have only a PS3 is the Sony owned or co-developed franchises. If they liked the wider HD game market, they would also have a 360. So Sony's titles are the only reason they even play console games, and if they didn't exist then they wouldn't own any console.

I must disagree there. You think that virtually every person who owns a PS3 and not a 360 would simply give up console gaming if the PS3 didn't exist? Perhaps if many Sony first party titles were considered hardware movers... but thus far, PS3's biggest sellers (with a couple exceptions) have been multiplat. those countless millions of GTA4, CoD4/WoW, Guitar Hero/Rockband, etc purchasers would have simply done without?

With no PS3, the 360 would see a huge boost as it would be the sole HD console on the market... I would agree that Wii would see almost no difference, though(not that it would need it).