| fooflexible said: What bothers me is how extreme most of the views are. We are not even a year into this generation for Sony, and people are already declaring them dead. While on the other hand Crazzyman here predicts the currnet last place company to OWN everything. Why can't people say, Sony is most likely alright because of the power they wield and the franchises they will be bringing to the table, yet, they clearly have displayed a lack of early dominance showed in the last generation, and seems unlikely to see figures even close to it's predeccessor. Views that stray far from that on either side are rather upsurd, they are the thoughts more of love and hatred then raw logic, and a level head observation of the current market status. While you can be a fanboy and be right, I just want to urge people to ground themselves a little more in the current situation. It's quite hard to call Sony dead, when Nintendo was in a worse position with the N64 and they're clearly doing fine now. And it' hards to pretend Sony will kick everyones butts when no one with sales as low as theirs came back to kick anyones butts. I don't mind a degree of optimism or pesimism, but some people are down right crazy(no pun intend...CrazzyMan) |
I try and look at things objectively. I don't like Sony but I try to be realistic about my predictions, and I predict the PS3 is on a downward course.
People have begun to compare the PS3 to the Gamecube and N64 in regards to its success in the marketplace. The difference between Sony, Nintendo, the PS3, the GC and N64 is that Nintendo made profits on the GC and N64. The way things are going, its questionable if Sony will make money off the PS3.
The machine is just too expensive for consumers and for developers. People generally don't care much about it. Gamers are only looking forward to a handful of PS3 games and even those games just don't have that much hype. There's more excitement on how game developers will use the Wii-mote in new and exciting ways.
If Sony made a cheap machine that was cheap and easy to develop for, they wouldn't be in this situation. But they seriously goofed with the Cell chip and the inclusion of Blu-Ray. High costs, lack of killer games... what else did anyone expect to happen?
And the game industry is a 'snowball industry' where your momentum or lack of momentum snowballs into greater momentum or greater non-momentum. The Wii hype is not relenting and will keep getting bigger. The PS3 hype started faltering in December and hasn't stopped. MGS, GT, GTA and FF13 are not gonna turn the tide. They are not. Not fanboy talk here, just being realistic man.
