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jarrod on 20 August 2010
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CGI-Quality said:
jarrod said:
cliffhanger said:
CGI-Quality said:

... If Sony plays their cards right, and enough pieces fall into place, the PlayStation 4 could be next gen's Super Nintendo.



huh? In what way?


PS2 was already Sony's SNES.  PS4 will probably be their GameCube. ;)

Guess I'll explain since you're the second person who misunderstood. Binary solo said they could launch mid gen (like the SNES did - 3 years into the 16-bit gen). I elaborated further on how that scenario could work for the PS4, particularly if Sony wants to prolong the life of the PS3 without a successor (something they haven't had to do in the past), to try to make back much of what was lost. A lot of that will also depend on the consumer. If they play that scenario, it could work in their favor, depending on the workings at Nintendo and Microsoft as well. It's a no-brainer that that's all speculation, but it isn't an impossibility.

And the PS2 wasn't the SNES of the last gen in that regard.

As for your Gamecube reference, what brings you to that conclusion? If we go by your previous reference, the PS3 is the "Gamecube" of the current gen.

PS3 is their N64.  ;)  Also, I was making a joke.

The problem with a waiting game on Sony's part, is that they're not exactly starting the next cycle from a position of strength.  Despite the "$599" blunder, PS3 had a lot of defacto advantages going in, thanks to being the overwhelmingly dominant market leader the previous cycle.  Just imagine if PS3 had launched after a console more like itself rather than a console like the PS2... how much support you think they'd have garnered upfront, from developers, from publishers, from retail, from the media?  This is chiefly why I think the SNES comparison falls flat, SNES was the assumed market leader well before it launched, since it was following up the market defining NES.  PS4 can't really say the same, after PS3 being something of a financial, marketshare and mindshare disaster for the PlayStation line.

This is also something that's going to haunt PSP2 upfront imo.  Sony's going to have much harder road to travel into next gen, there's not going to be as much naturally occurring support or assumed marketplace by the industry... Sony's going to have to work harder at every step, make no mistakes and really prove things out.