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) |
The main reason people are so doubtful on the long term survivability of the PS3 is that when you extrapolate current trends things get pretty ugly for Sony in Japan.
No matter how you track data, and no matter what statistics you use, it is clear that the Nintendo DS has fundamentally changed how the market works in Japan; this change seems to have made the market somewhat unresponsive to the strategy that creates systems like the PS3. There has been dramatic market growth and a shift in consumer tastes which seems to favour rapid growth for the Wii. Hypothetically speaking, if both the Wii and the Nintendo DS are selling in the 150,000 range how much room does that leave for any other platform?
