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WilliamWatts on 09 July 2010
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snfr said:
WilliamWatts said:

They can't afford to launch late next generation because they are third. With this generation they could have come in at any time and people/developers would have waited for them. This isn't the case anymore, if they come in late then they risk seeing Nintendo / Microsoft / Both developing a massive lead which they will not be able to overtake. Consider the 3DS lineup of games, is there any reason why Nintendo could not repeat that feat with the successor to the Wii?

Why do people still think that a company cares about how they finish in the console war? Sony doesn't even give a damn shit about that. They want to sell consoles, that's it. If they finish with 65 million ps3 units sold and MS finishes with 68, they wouldn't care that they are third, because they sold a lot.

The most important thing about the second part is the third party support. Third partys would be stupid not to develope for a platform that already has a strong userbase. And performance isn't the deciding factor, but Wii2 and Xbox720 won't be far superior in performance.

If the PS1 didn't finish first it wouldn't have given the PS2 such a massive lead over all the other consoles in terms of early adoption and early exclusives. By the time the Gamecube and Xbox 1 got to market the battle was already lost. Now consider the 3DS and how people say that before the PSP2 even gets to market its already lost, its the same deal. The Xbox next will definately not dawdle out of the gate like the Xbox 360 did and the Wii will definately get a huge supply of third party attention, exclusive third party attention at that. No third party will want to get left behind on Nintendos next home console, especially if the 3DS does as well as expected.

The instant a next generation console comes out the PS3 is going to be 'old news'. It will damage the sales of the current PS3 and potentially weaken the future PS4 if it isn't on the market in short order and cause some of the userbase which consists of quite a few hardcore gamers and technophiles to consider strongly changing allegience. Even a Wii 2 with rediculous profit margins and a $249 price tag in 2011 could easily outperfom the PS3. Without even trying hard it could have double the memory and bandwidth, double the drive speed, and triple or quadruple the GPU performance.