can the 360 sell 70+ million consoles?

[joeorc]

WilliamWatts said:

EdStation3 said:
A lot of big 3rd parties generation have stated that the PS3 is more attractive in the long run. Don't quote me on it, but I believe EA said this not that long ago. They're just waiting for the PS3 to hit a certain level of market share and I'm sure it will be a tidal wave of support going to the PS3. Dreamcast released with a 1.9GB medium...PS2 released with 8.5GB medium...nobody wanted to develop for a system that didn't allow them to do what they wanted. N64 and PS1...same thing...eventually everyone got tired of its limitation and left. Im sure if anything the only thing that's kept the 360 from losing support is MS aggressive bribing of 3rd party executives. That can only keep them afloat for so long.

I very much doubt this. Developers have to keep their games within a certain size limit for digistribution on Steam etc for cross platform console + PC games. They aren't going to rush out and slap on another 20GB of data like dirty savages slap on mud and just support the PS3. EA is struggling to make money as it is, so they aren't going to tack on another 40% more development costs whilst cutting their market into 1/2 or less than 40% for PC/console titles.

ahh. but which developer's for which platform does this mainly apply ?

more playstation 3 developer's

or

xbox360 developer's

or

3rd party developer's

see that's the problem, both Microsoft and Sony each have their own networks to distribute  game's on it only come's down to what developer's want to distribut their game's on and on which networks.

the point being are there more third party developer's that develop for the

pc+xbox360

than there are for

pc+ps3

I think we can all agree that there are more developer's for the PC+xbox360 because let's look at steam is that for LINUX or Microsoft platform?

let me answer that

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As you can see it's taylor made for Window's, thus many 3rd party developer's are the target.

while this is not so much what is inline for everyone it is inline for every PC developer that want's to develop game for a Microsoft based system.

nothing wrong with that but the fact is that Sony's system is not a Microsoft based system. so not every development tool, or network support help's them, that's why they have their own tool's APi's etc.