Lord N said:
I don't give a damn what Microsoft calls it, it's an add-on. It's the same console with a different control scheme, nothing more, nothing less. Calling it a "console relaunch" is just MS trying to hype it up as something more than it is. Reinventing the GUI? Please. What are they reinventing here, exactly? Really, had Nintendo released the Wii-mote for the Gamecube in 2004 and called it a console relaunch, would it have made any kind of a damn difference?
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What's really going to upset him is when Natal launches, and the vast majority of it's games are casual games to try and bring in that market. Which is laughable considering the Wii has already conquered that demographic. And those people are definiely not paying ~$300 just for another system and camera to play even more casual games than what they already have. That's why I prefer Sony Wands. At least there is a chance to play both casual and hardcore games, without destroying the gimmick of "play without a controller."
In the end, however, both ADD-ONS are only going to sell to those who have already bought the system, bringing in little to no new gamers that wouldn't have bought the system anyway. The PS3 is doing so well now because it is at an affordable price and it has so much to offer, and not just in games. And don't forget Blu-ray, which continues to bring in more and more people as time goes by.
I really don't see 360 making up too much ground, nor do I see it's sales being horrible. I also see PS3 sales probably stabilizing after the holiday seasons to slightly above the 360's. Now MS might try to offset them with a price cut, but how much they could drop it and how much damage that would do is yet to be seen. If they did drop it, I see Sony probably reacting with a $50 price drop ~mid-late 2010, which is probably all it would take to disrupt any price cut MS would do.
