| natureman3 said: I tend to disagree on certain part of this article (and by the way to many posters on VGChartz and admins too). 1) The fact that 95% of the big gaming sites are English-US based make many read incorrectly the actual position of the different consoles. Ps3 is set for massive sales on a long period of time whereas the sales of 360 are likely to drop severely by 2008, as it's not a hot product anymore, nor a mainstream one. 2) Wii has at least 18 months before it has to prove its intrinseque value and its sales will be lifted by proper ads / marketing campaign up to then. It leaves plenty of time to Nintendo to refeed th wii with original content. |
1) I assume you're talking about how many of the sites expect the XBox 360 to continue to perform as well or better than the PS3. I suspect that sites keep taking this position because of the current stance of western third party publishers.
Western third party publishers have never been particularly popular in Japan and (for the most part) they don't care about sales or performance of a system within Japan; most of their games are targeted towards either an American audience or towards the more general 'Western' audience being that "the Other" region is so diverse it isn't particularly easy to target games for them. What this means is that the XBox 360 outselling the PS3 in North America and in the 'Western' market as a whole, as well as having a larger userbase, is a very strong advantage for the XBox 360.
2) I don't think the Wii has anything left to prove
