| archbrix said: Hardware sales are quite nice for 360 with Kinect out now, and that's with no major price cuts yet. And do you really think that a $199 PS3 isn't going to sell through the roof either? The only hardware that's slowing down is the Wii (which by the way still had an INCREDIBLE holiday this last year), and will do just fine in 2011; the Wii is not even $149 yet, much less it's eventual price of $129 or even $99. I do agree that it is likely that Nintendo will have the Wii's successor at the end of 2012 because they have already profited ridiculously well, but you are surely mistaken if you think PS4 will be coming that early. |
My main problem with the PS3 is that they aren't doing anything different yet outside of price cuts, so I see them staying on the same typical path. They lost on the motion control battle to Kinect. Kinect was the cool HD motion system this holiday. Not PS3 (that pack in game has not been selling well for a piece of hardware that is supposed to be all the rage).
Price cuts can solve some symptoms of a problem, but not the actual problem alone. The problem with PS3 is that newcomers to this generation have two better options when it comes to the content they want - Wii Motion games backed by strong 1rst Party Titles that consumers have strong faith in/planned to buy w/system (Mario games, Zelda, Wii Series Games). And then Microsoft's hardcore games with HD graphics, many of which are available on BOTH xbox and ps3 (so why would new consmers generally choose a PS3?). And then Microsoft's Kinect. If anyone stole consumers from Nintendo it was kinect with it's unique and kiddy appeal. PS3 failed to steal Nintendo's audience.
That's why I see PS3 as being out of options if they choose to prolong their system. Nintendo and Xbox are still managing to offer something different to newcomers, or the same thing but cheaper.
