Sony: Xbox 720 and Wii 2 will beat PS4 to market

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WilliamWatts said:

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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.

1. Just because people say it it won't automatically come true. Those people want the PSP2 to fail before it is even announced. They wish that it will fail. And by looking at the Wii you should recognize that 3rd party support isn't everything. Wii is the best selling console although it has the weakest 3rd party support.

2. Third partys won't give too much attention to the Wii or its' successor, simply because they know that Nintendo's own first party games beat third party games easily.

3. Because it's longer on the market than upcoming consoles it doesn't mean that it's 'old news'.  Look a few years back and you'll recognize that the PS2 outsold the PS3 and the Xbox360 in 2007 (look especially at November and December 07), although the 360 was already in its' second year. I know what you think about this: the PS2 was more popular. But why should the PS3 not reach the mass market and sell the shit out of next gen consoles with... let's say... a 149$ price?