How Would You Feel If Sony Announced The PS4 at E3 2010?

[68soul]

loves2splooge said:

68soul said:

It would make no sense...

And i'd feel sorry for them: how many billions did they already lose in the last three years?

The Blue-Ray has a very limited success, and the PS3 profits can't compare to the old PS2 profits, both on the hardware and the software side... PSP is not an important factor, and if they release an (even more powerful) PS4, no dev in this world will take the risks to do even more expensive games, for an even more limited userbase...

Plus, the consumers would feel cheated, not so long after the release of a PS3 Slim and a brand new controller that won't have the time to (finally) become real success... a very bad idea all the way...

This would simply mean that Sony's gaming division is commiting suicide...

And then, the situation would be quite clear: one american console vs one japanese console, Microsoft vs Nintendo...

The american console would have nearly all the western games, plus some of the best japanese games, and the japanese console would have all the japanese games, plus some of the best western games... and any gamer will have a good choice, and will even have the possibility to easily afford both, to be able to play any of the best games on the market...

It's a win-win situation, and an even more competitive market than a 3 consoles race... and it would also be easier to manage cross-platform games for anyone in the industry... so why not...

In fact, it would then mean: back to the old Nintendo vs Sega, but this time with an american opponent with its usual monopolistic agenda, on the PC scene just as on the console scene...

No need to say which console i'll buy then, as anyway, japanese games have always been my favourites, and i don't trust anyone with a collection of "red rings of death" plus a monopolistic agenda... :)

You want to talk about monopolistic agendas and then clearly ignore what Nintendo did in the 80s. They didn't obtain 95+% market share by playing nice. But since they are Japanese and not American, look the other way right? Gotta love Anti-American bigotry like that. And Sony, the huge entertainment conglomorate is completely innocent too right? None of these huge multi-national corporations are angels. The whole point of a corporation is to deliver a profit to your shareholders. And it's very difficult to be an angel when you are set out to accomplish that goal.

 

Well, obviously, you didn't have the occasion to read what i wrote in some other threads, but just to let you know, i've often written similar things: i still like Nintendo for the creativity and the games, but when it comes to corporations, i feel nearly the same with ALL of them: Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Disney/Buena Vista, Warner, BMG, Vivendi... all the same for me...

But even if Buena Vista leaves me cold, i still have the deepest respect for the Pixar teams, by example... you see the difference?

Now, back to the gaming industry: i still don't understand how a bad software company is supposed to suddenly become a good hardware company... the fact it's an american corporation is totally out of the equation for me, and "bigotry" is certainly not a word i'd use to judge my feelings and my thoughts: i'm quite an open-minded man, you may view my very various "tastes" in my profile to get the idea...

But anyway, a company with a 30-40% defect rate on its hardware will never gain my respect and my trust... and i have other goals in my life than to make the richest man on Earth even richer... especially whit all the past "Windows history", if you know what i mean...

Just as i have other goals than watching my movies on Blue-Ray: i don't want to buy a new movie collection every 5 years, or a new record colection every 10 years... that "hyper-consumerist" system may burn in hell, as far as i'm concerned... i still have my good old LPs collection, and my regular (and cheap) DVD's are goin' to last a long time, don't care about any "monopolistic" format Sony has ever introduced, or will once again try to introduce in a (too) near future...

And in the same time, Nintendo will still be my favourite dev, and will still sell good and robust consoles for a very reasonnable price, and that's good enough for me... no need to be rude, even if you don't agree, and even if i'm european and not american... thanks...