| cmeese47 said: I have come to the realization that I don't think it matters that 360 has a weak game lineup people will still buy the system. It does really well in the US and UK and the only place it is a real failure is Japan. People have been saying since 2008 that Sony has had a better software lineup and for my money they have yet the 360 continues to survive on the backs of 3rd party multi-plats. It really is the strangest thing, for my money blu-ray> dvd, reliable console > rrod, quite> loud, better software> mostly multi-plat. Yet, 360 was not only able to overcome those short comings they flourished. The comes the S, which takes away a couple of main deficiencies adding wifi, fixing rrod, making the system quiter and the system takes off again. So as a Sony fan I hope the no blu ray and weaker software lineup catches up to the 360 but as realist it probably wont matter |
360 fans don't care for a bunch of miscellaneous exclusives, they only play the top tier high playercount games. Why would you waste your time with second rate games when everyone you play with is going to be on Halo/COD?
It is very difficult to displace the popular games when the communities reach critical mass and self sustaining. You'd have to do everything right and then some, and hope that the top dog messes it up so badly that fans go elsewhere. From the looks of Reach, it seems like it will still be top dog for a long time. COD...maybe not, but it will take a couple of bad sequels before another alternative pops up. I doubt there will be anything on the PS3 as an exclusive that will offer an experience so much better that it is worth paying $399 to jump ship, especially when all their friends are going to be on Live. MS designed Live with a lot of community features in mind, and that lets them leverage word of mouth and social psychology much more effectively than PSN.
