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Biddles on 23 December 2010
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homer said:
Biddles said:
homer said:
Biddles said:

If Apple enter the industry Sony will become like Sega.


I somewhat agree. Apple could push any of the big 3 out. They could capture the casual fanbase that Nintendo has, or if they wanted to, get exclusivity for games by major 3rd party developers, stealing the Playstation and Xbox crowd.

Easily, theres just no way there would be enough room on the market for the four. Theres barely enough room for Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony, if Nintendo wasnt a different type of console one would have given out.

But out the three Sony is the one thatd be most likely be kicked out. Nintendo has been around from the mid 80's theyve already had their struggle and still came out on top, they own the handheld market so they wont go anywhere.

And Sony dominated with the PS1 and PS2 the original Xbox didnt sell a 5th what the PS2 did and come next gen the Xbox 360 is in front of the PS3 in Hardware and in front by a lot on Software. Its got US and UK the two biggest markets on their side now, by the time a Xbox 3 and a PS4 come out its not unlikely countries like France, Germany, Italy, Spain etc will move on over to Xbox aswell.

PS3 doesnt have that many big exclusives anymore, GT i guess but you can get Forza anyhow, theres Uncharted, God of War, Little Big Planet that sell decently but they arnt Halo or Gears of War. The PS3 has lost GTA, Final Fantasy Resident Evil, Tekken, Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Metal Gear Solid and a bunch of others to Xbox now.

I agree that it appears as if the ps3 does not have as many exclusives as last gen, but the 360 has even fewer. Sony still has a stronghold in many places around the world giving them an advantage over the xbox, where, if they lose the Americas, they will get destroyed. So if sony still can maintain control in other developing regions, they will have a huge advantage over the Xbox brand after the eventual demise of the USA. Nintendo has shown Sony who is boss in the handheld market, but the psp has still been a major success considering Nintendo has been largely unoppossed in this market. Nintendo cannot be king of the handheld market forever.Regardless, very few people will buy the next xbox for solely Halo and Gears, so if you can garner extreme support from EA, Activision, Ubisoft, etc., you could easily steal the Xbox fanbase, and even the Playstation. The reason why I believe Sony would outlive the Xbox brand if this occurred, is because they have more ips and 1st party devs, which is something that could bite Microsoft in the butt, and something they need to rectify asap. Nintendo is the only one I believe will be able to stand with little to no 3rd party support.

It wasnt really the amount of exlusives its just the ones they have arnt that big anymore. They lost alot of major system seller franchises like GTA and Final Fantasy and things like Metal Gear and Resident Evil which were the most popular games.

Now they have Uncharted, Little Big Planet, Resistance, Killzone, God of War, good games but they dont sell like what Halo or Gears of War or old PS2 games used to. The Xbox 360 has 90% of the games the PS3 has.

If next generation is the same in that Xbox comes first and its significantly cheaper than the PS4 then Sony will be pretty much done, PS2 went from being on Top and Xbox being far underneath it to pretty much the same way around, that dominance is only going to grow, i dont think Playstation has a chance now in US.

Same thing happened in UK and Australia Xbox has that market down now, the PS3 only did as well as it did because alot of loyal people waited for the PS3 and alot thought games like GTAIV and Final Fantasy XIII and others would come out just for the PS3 but that wasnt the case.

The only thing thats keeping PS3 close to Xbox 360 in sales is Japan and the PS3 looks like its on its way out in Japan to so by the time a PS4 comes out it could perform even worse than the PS3 and if Xbox starts to take over more in US, UK and start to turn over some other major countries then Sony will be out.