| archbrix said: PS3 in particular already has a slew of high profile exclusives for 2011. Are any of these games poised to sell like a NSMB or COD? Of course not, but with a list of exclusive games like this, a blu-ray player, the most advanced tech on the market and an almost guaranteed price drop this year, why wouldn't new customers want a PS3? Again this isn't to say that Wii or 360 are doomed, far from it. What I'm saying is that PS3 is hardly out of options. |
I'll have to wait to see what exclusives PS3 has in store that they think will move significant hardware, though I won't count it out yet. Also, I have to wonder about the draw of the cheap(albeit a great value) blu ray player. Because it's definitely not the primary reason people by gaming hardware in the first place, especially when the difference between HD is noticeably smaller for consumers than the difference between SD and HD.
As far as that goes, there just comes a point when the consumer appreciation of a technical element(resolution here) stops increasing at the same rate of the technological improvement. When HD came out, consumers noticed that. I didn't feel that same hype when the term "blu ray" got thrown around. You can get a standard blu ray player for a hundred bucks right now. When the PS3 gets down to 199.00, stand alone blu ray players will be cheap fodder.
I will agree with you on your point about PS3 being able to be content with third place this generation, as opposed to being third place last gen. They are fine with where they are and have not been made irrelevant within the industry by any means. I still say 2012 for PS3, and I actually say that for all of them. But I will be sure to give you props if ur 2014 prediction comes true. It's just that we've never been in this scenario before where we may actually exceed a 6 year console cycle (almost all are 5) so everything is more up in the air than usual when it comes to theories. I'm excited to see how everything plays out.
