| jneul said: ^^That is going to be the deciding facctor in the console war, now all them PS2 owners that still love their ps2's will decide who in the end wins, because like you said at least 80 million of them are still interested in the ps2, when it comes to upgrade i hope they chose ps3 because it is the best value for your money, and it does everything |
Once again, people forget the DS. A LOT of PS2 owners went DS only.
In fact, I think we saw a change in gaming habits from one generation to another.
The handheld overtook the habitual spectrum. The common sense view of the market is only starting to catch on to that, consoles getting most of the attention of the media has mostly to do with the amount of competition, as well as the historical significance. But the reality is handhelds won people over, and are still doing so.
Most people are not looking for a certain level of visual quality, or audio quality. They never have. So different experiences, in a living room context, is the main valuable thing that will not be replicated or bettered in handheld form. We're gonna see a lot of duplicated ownership as a result of the slim PS3, so you can expect good sales for a while, but ultimately handhelds are winning people over and that's the bottom line.
For fore seeing this problem with new consoles, there's no question in my mind that the Wii will win in the home console realm in the end, despite all of the efforts from certain people to change that. But the DS is also a significant win from the last few years that people didn't really recognize.
