freebs2 said:
c0rd said:
Hm, I highly doubt that'd happen.
First, consider that the HD consoles are slightly boosted by multiple owners (PS3 + 360). Even if this is only 3% of the group, that's over a million consoles.
Second, consider how much money the HD consoles lost combined to compete with the Wii. The 360 lost about 2 billion (?), the PS3 lost somewhere in the 4-6 billion range. Combined that's like 6-8 billion? Can MS or Sony afford losses that huge?
Third, MS does not have access to all of Sony's audience, and vice versa. Unless Sony manages to grab Fable, Halo, and Gears on their systems, or MS grabs Gran Turismo, God of War and others, not everyone will purchase the remaining competitor. Besides, if Sony or MS drops out and their IP's go third party, there's a chance they will end up on Nintendo's consoles, making it even more impossible...
Finally, we don't yet even know if the HD consoles will finish ahead of the Wii.
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You are right but I think that most of that 6-8billion were lost because of the competiton between sony and microsoft not against nintendo.
For example Sony spent at first a lot of money developing the cell-processor trying to compete against X360 in the graphical department, not against Wii, then sony had to lose money underselling ps3 because of 360's lower price.
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True, some of the R&D costs would overlap in the losses.
Still, the losses from the price cut wars are relevant. Nobody cares that the PS3 cut its price to fight off Microsoft's 360, they only care about the price itself (now $299!). If there was no competition and fewer price cuts, the Wii would have easily overtaken the HD consoles.
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