| mrstickball said: John, there really are no paralells between any system and how it did in the future vs. anyone. |
To a certain extent you're correct, you can't really look at a collection of consoles and say "Console A represents the PS3, Console B represents the XBox 360 and Console C represents the Wii" ... Where you are wrong is that we can tell a lot about how this generation will play out by considering how previous consoles compared to their competition.
Above and beyond all else, what we have learned from previous generations is that the only perfromance publishers care about is sales performance and the only feature gamers care about is access to high quality games; the result of this is that customers and developers chase eachother around which causes a feedback loop that tends to make the most popular system sell dramatically better than its competition.
Now, the reason I would say that this generation is going to end up being so one sided simply boils down to cost ...
For consumers the Wii is a dramatically less expensive piece of hardware, with less expensive games and is (overall) a very affordable. For developers the Wii is dramatically less expensive to develop games for which means for the same investment in gaming you can produce more games. The overall result of this means that once the Wii gets a solid lead it will become nearly impossible to take it away from it; why would a gamer spend $100 or $200 more for a system which has less games, and why would a developer spend 2 to 4 times as much to develop a game for a system that has a smaller userbase.
