nightsurge said:
Actually it is the retailers. I'll go into more detail: Retailers have space for only a certain amount of consoles, handhelds, and all their games. When new hardware comes out, it usually takes over the space of the predecessor (maybe not the whole space right away, but after a year or so it completely takes over). This is because there is not enough space to keep the old consoles and games along with the new ones. Retailers tend to keep the top selling console from the previous gen in order to continue to maximize on software sales. This is because the new consoles will not be selling as much software for the first year or 2 until the install base increases. There is simply not enough shelf space to support keeping 2 or 3 more consoles at retail. It doesn't matter how long Sony or MS or Nintendo pledge to support their consoles as the retailers are the ones that will decide and with the Wii being both the top seller and the top software seller, it is likely to be the only one kept on more than a year or 2 after the next generation starts. |
even if they take shelf space the fact is if the consumer "damand's" more of the product store's will not put the product that's in demand less shelf space. what your trying to do is paint that the PS3 not being in first place has to be the #1 spot to get that demand for the stores to keep its shelf space viable. and that was exactly what was stated back in 2007 and 2008 that demand for the PS3 would further erode it's shelf space. which here we are at 2010 and the PS3 has just as much shelf space if not more now.
the demand for the PS3 has increased not slowed!
Do you think the demand for the PS3 is going to vastly shrink in the next couple of year's? when the PS3's price is yet to be at the sub $200.00 sales sku. we have no I dea how it would go in the next couple of year's, but for my guess I see no trend of the PS3's demand drying up where it would start to sell less and less software, not the way the 1st party and 2nd party have been putting out quality Game's for the PS3.
this goes for the xbox360 also , there is too much demand for the product for the software sales to dry up in anywhere near the future unless if the New xbox 720 or what name they give it, and the consumer's drop demand for the xbox360 instead start buying only the new xbox software.
Microsoft has never had two system's running in the game console market at the same time selling on the shelf at the same time to it's consumer base. this future released xbox when it get's released eat into the xbox360 software sale's?
unlike Microsoft Sony has already done that not once but 3 time's now.
sony has had the
PS2
the PSP
and the PS3 all on the shelf at the same time.
I AM BOLO
100% lover "nothing else matter's" after that...
ps:
Proud psOne/2/3/p owner. I survived Aplcalyps3 and all I got was this lousy Signature.