| Jandre02 said: NO one here is going to answer you honestly. Not even me, since were all fans of a console and dislike other consoles because of it. But personally, I think the Wii is still a fad and the PS3 will catch it. But the PS3 still needs something that amazes people more than the Wii's motion sensing does. It will take software titles, and though gamers want to bitch and moan about it, even better multimedia features for it to surpass the Wii. There is no "wow" factor with the PS3 right now, but it has great potential to do so in the future. The Xbox is solid, yet it has no "wow" factor, and seems to be at the top of its potential, which is why in its best year yet, it was still doubled by the Wii, which doesnt have nearly the gaming experience. Its the PS3's ability to appeal to mainstream buyers that will give it its edge, not the hardcore or casual gamers. While all three consoles have overlapping fanbases, its the PS3 that will sit most comfortably as mainstream, since it has something for everyone, something neither of the other 2 consoles can say, even by the end of next year. Its why the PS3 has been outsold by less than 1,000,000 this year even with all of the Xbox360's acheivements. No doubt the Xbox is leading all three consoles in the hardcore fanbase, and the Wii is killing the other two in casual, the PS3 has been able to do relatively well because its beginning to get its mainstream fanbase to convert from PS2. Once the PS3 hits $299 it will be a comeplely different story. And while others will claim a price cut that happened over a month and a half ago is the reason for the PS3 still selling well, I think they are under-analyzing the situation in order to make it seem this current console trend will continue. I doubt it, and recent sales show which way the trend is moving. |
I would personally argue that the reason the PS3 has performed so poorly is because it abandoned the mainstream buyer ...
In the last generation 80% of console purchases were made when the systems were $200 or less. Today (roughly) 75% of homes primary television is still a standard definition television, and in many households the gaming system is hooked up to a secondary television (which is far less likely to be a high definition television). The typical household does not have a 7.1 surround sound system, most still don't have 5.1 surround sound (and those that do it is a cheap home-theater in a box system).
Basically, the PS3 is too expensive of a system for the mainstream and offers features which are not intersting to the mainstream (yet) ...
