| zero129 said: I think alot of them rumors are false, no way does sony want to launch another $600 Console. Look how doing that helped the PS3.. |
Not a personal attack to you, but can people stop this, "higher priced consoles won´t sell, and the PS3 proved it and Sony didn´t learn" BS
If someone comes out tomorrow, with a $600 machine, with brand new IPs with solid gameplay, 20 hour long games, addicting MP and Samaritan level graphics, that machine would sell like crazy from the get go.
The reason PS3 didn´t sell in the beginning was not THE PRICE, it was the fact that it had NO GAME that made consumers go, "I don´t mind the extra investment over the 360"
This is why a dev friendly machine with more horsepower then the competition is not the same situation it happened with the PS3. The PS3 theoretically was more powerful then the 360, but there was no games showing it, because devs were new to the Cell architecture. And even now, only first party studios are crushing Cells potential, but even they can´t mack up for the PS3s GPU shortcomings
As for the no BC problem, I mean it is not a surprise. Sony had to make this decision sooner or later, they can go Cell 2.0 and prolong "Dev nightmare machine", or go Dev friendly sooner so that they have full 3rd party support, and more important let 1st party go ham and cheese on the machine since day one instead of learning the system 5 years into the cycle.
As for used games, I mean If sony does it MS does it and vise versa. Not good for consumers but good for them, If I am a 3rd party dev and I have a used game friendly machine and a non used game friendly one, I will give 100% support to the later one. Both companies will go with this leaving Nintendo behind just when they though that 3rd party support was coming full force.
Instead of bashing possible price based on this and lack of BC, people should be concerned about the 2 biggest flaws PS3 had, Ram and going cheap on the GPU (mainly because they had to rush it because of the NVIDIA fiasco), and one of them (according to this) is being addressed accordingly.
