BenVTrigger said:
Squilliam said:
Dodece said:
I wonder if anyone else is familiar with the concept of canceling out. The added functionality in the PS3 cancels out the early launch for the 360. Sony decided to start late so they could use their console as a market penetration tool for both format and CPU technologies. Microsoft launched sooner to gain market dominance. This mindset that Sony is getting mugged is fabricated bullshit.
For anyone talking this point they should also make the following statements. Had the 360 launched later it would have had a better reliability, and had the PS3 launched sooner it would have had half the functionality. All things are equal to obtain one thing you must sacrifice another. Whether the sacrifice was worth it is another matter entirely.
Speaking to why where something sells matter. Yes where something sells matters a great deal, because different markets are worth more. Japan is a market that is becoming increasingly marginalized, and long term prospects for console success are to be found in North America and Europe. Success in Japan is becoming less a plum, and more a prune. Success in North America or Europe are worth far more then success in Japan. They will pay out more in the long run.
Many Japanese developers have been very bullish on this point. They view being too successful in Japan as compared to being less successful in North America as a loss. |
Its very frustrating that the what-if crowd doesn't understand this important point.
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VERY VERY good point. It drives me insane when people use the year head start theory. People act like the 360 just a had a free years worth of sales. Thats not the case at all. The fact is if both consoles had launched at the same time both the PS3 and 360 would be very different looking machines. One would either have more improvements or the other would have less than it does now.
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It wouldn't matter so much if we didn't get the same theories dragged up time and again... Sigh, one contributing factor towards one group of fanboys stellar reputation.
