Mr Puggsly said:
The Xbox had a a solid 5 years and its popularity wasn't exactly growing. The Xbox also didn't have the power to handle new game engines and upcoming PC titles. It was impressive to see games like Half Life 2 and Doom 3 on the Xbox, but they showed the hardware's limitations. It was time to move on. Abandoning the PS3 now would be stupid at the rate things are going. Its growing in popularity now that its affordable, its earning back some of epic financial losses, and its still a powerful machine by today's standards. Basically this is a very stupid comparison. Their circumstances are very different. |
Stupid comparison? That's a bit insulting, isn't it?
The PS3, like the Xbox, was released later than the main competition (or so it was assumed). It had some specs higher than the competition and had a growing library of titles that really showed what it was capable of that the competition couldn't. But it couldn't keep up when it came to sales or profits.
No one said anything about abandoning the PS3 NOW. This thread was about the PS4 launching before the competitors. My analogy was saying that the only way that would happen would be if they did what MS did with the Xbox and that was abandoning it prematurely to get an early foothold in the next generation. Basically writing off the PS3 as something not financially viable and moving on to something that was. That is EXACTLY what MS did and it was a gamble that was worth it in the end.
But, as I stated, I don't think that is something that they will do at all. It would be extremely surprising. Whether I think it would be the RIGHT move is a very different discussion ...
