Your perspective.
1) Price. Cheapest to buy, cheaper games to buy, cheapest to make games for.
Yes, yes, no - its cheeper making a multi platform PS3/360/PC game.
2) Ports. Casual fare like Madden, Guitar Hero, DDR, Tony Hawk, does not require graphical wonder, which makes Wii attractive as the home for casual gamers. With PS2 still going strong, developers can support the two systems to make alot of money, especially since both consoles will likely be ahead of PS3 and 360 at the end of the year in terms of userbase.
whatever, only in wii world are old gen ports a good thing.
3) 1st party games. Nintendo still has the best games - at least in terms of worldwide appeal (personally I think the quality is still there too). Keep in mind Nintendo just bought out the majority of Monolith Studios too (makers of Baten Kaitos 1-2), which likely will increase Wii's RPG presence in Japan.
Nin has the best kiddy games, but not every one wants kiddy games.
4) Diversity of games. Look at the 2007 lineup:
Warioware, Sonic, SSX Blur, Tigerwoods, Super Paper Mario, Big Brain Academy, Mario Party 8, Nights: Journey into Dreams, Galaxy or Metroid or Brawl, Mario & Sonic at the Olympics, Resident Evil 4 Wii, Resident Evil Umbrella, Manhunt 2, GH3, DDR Hot Mix, Madden, Opoona, Dragon Quest Swords, Mario Strikers, etc
better then PS3 or 360 ? best games are all kiddy oriented. Sure as hell not better then PS3 or 360 line up.
5) Third party potential. Ubisoft has not generally seen huge sales on Nintendo platforms, but they are going to have two million sellers. Others will as well. I think EA, Square-Enx, Capcom, Ubi Soft, Sega all will have a million selling Wii game by year end (likely one from EA - either sports or MySims, Resident Evil:Umbrella, Red Steel 2 - you know it is coming, Mario & Sonic, DQ: Swords)
Devs are better of making a multi platform PS3/360/PC games, casual fans or nintendo fans are not big 3rd party supporters.
PS3
1) PS3 won't sell the most but... - Sony won the Blue-Ray war. Good for them. But people like my Mom don't even have DVD players yet. I also have a suspicion that other than technophiles like Kwaad who love HD-TV, the majority of people who buy a state of the art TV use it because they love to watch TV and don't do much else. I only use my TV for TV on Sunday nights and during the MLB playoffs, otherwise it is for videogames. Basically, I think most gamers (at least my age), would only upgrade their TV if they love TV, because loving games is not a big enough justification - and that negates the PS3 graphical advantage a bit.
There are alot more HDTV in the world then PS3s, for theose early adopters/ high tech nuts a 600 for a PS3 is nothing. In the past 6 months half my family went hdtv.
Euro cut, World cup, Superball - enouth justification for HDTVs, same people will love Madden or Fifa on the PS3 and not on the wii.
2) PS3 can drop in price - alot - if Sony feels it is necessary. 360 Elite makes it easier for them to compete for the (small) market of technophile gamers in the USA.
Br prices droping, 65 nano chips, they can, when is the queastion.
3) PS3 "eye" (I think that is the name) The newly announced camera. Have you read about that thing? It is pretty interesting to me, and I think it will be used well pretty soon.
Eye toy
4) 1st party sales. Sony doesn't have an ability to launch crazes like Nintendo can with things like Nintendogs, Pokemon, Brain Training, etc, but they do have a solid staple of beloved, reliable games that appeal specifically to the three regions. With 3rd parties jumping ship like an angry pirate, Sony can use this as a big differentiator against Microsoft. Still, in the USA, little can beat Halo 3 at the moment.
Sony has some of the best devs in nthe world. Nin makes mostly kiddy games. Sony has much better 1st party diversity. Just this week 360 lost 3 exclusives.
5) Home. I think the porn potential of home will actually attract alot of men to PS3...now whether or not Sony wants this type of customer is a completely different issue.
LOL, success is success.
6) The 2007 lineup is decent, although I think not nearly as good as Wii or 360's.
Motorstorm, Ninja Gaiden Sigma, Lair, Heaven Sword, DMC 4, GTA, Assassin's Creed, Madden, GH3, Metal Gear Solid 4 (maybe.) are the big games to me. I think the only three that can really move a $600 console are MGS4, GTA, and GH3 (the enhancements could be awesome to lovers of music games). With the potential for all 3 (and 2 confirmed) on other consoles though, it will likely come down to the package of exclusive games that will make people pay for PS3.
decent lol, actually much better then the Wiis, more world wide frienedly then 360s.
Lair, Heavenly, Killzone, Warhawk , Uncharted, Golf5, White night Story, Rachat and Clank, Madden, Fifa, GTA4, Assasins Creed, DMC4, Blacksite A51, Frontlines: Fuel of War, Sigstar, Eyedentity, Eight days, Haze, Dark Sector, Gataway, GH3
