Sony should sit the next generation out!

[Joelcool7]

chris1_16 said:
Wait, did you seriously make up the development cost?

No, I based my part about Dev costs on an EACanada interview with The Province newspaper. The biggest newspaper in my province and a really respected newspaper nation wide! Of course that price is in CDN dollars and not American but considering our dollar is almost par I'd say that the price should be fairly relevant.

Me linking software prices to dev costs is simple. Software here in Canada goes for about 69.99$ or at cheapest 59.99$ which yes you can argue that most X-Box titles when they launch are about 59.99$. However I'll give an example LittleBigPlanet a game launched a year ago remains 59.99$ and in many places 69.99$. While on the PS2 a title would drop in price to about 29.99$ within a year or two, theirs no way it would stay at 59.99$ This is obviously due to higher dev costs and lack of software sales!

I will now defend the part about classics. I have spent over 250$ on Nintendo Virtual Console games and yes I have spent 25$ on PS3 classics and nothing on my 360 so far. I know many others who have purchased excess of 100$ of Virtual Console games. So if tons of Wii owners each buy about 100$ in classics that is pure profit for Nintendo. Little to no overhead.

 

Please also understand I'm not bashing Sony. I'm saying the PS3 could dominate the market if Sony chooses not to launch a PS4 next generation. Yes some may argue that Microsoft's next gen console and Nintendo's might then steal the spotlight, but other then early adopters Sony will still be fairly competetive.

Also for the people saying Microsoft won't launch its next console next fall. When the 360 launched Microsoft announced it would likely maintain a four year life cycle. Well it will have been five years next year (Which is the default lifecycle set by Nintendo and Sony). Not to mention the Wii is starting to faulter and Nintendo will likely launch its next platform in 2011 as per usual (Five year life cycle)!

So lets say Microsoft doesn't launch its next platform in 2010, Nintendo will still launch theirs in 2011. If it doesn't make sense for Sony to skip out and rely on PS3 then we can expect PS4 in 2011!