Crono141 said:
That is true, but Sony has always been a one trick pony. They believe they make premium devices and try to sell them at a premium price point. Vita and PS3 both fit this mold. I think they're going to try to steal Nintendo's thunder by having PS3/4 and Vita connectivity just like Nintendo and the UPad. But lets be honest about first impressions. The first impression anyone gets from video games is how they look. So if WiiU and PS4 look about equivalent, then it goes down to the next impression. The Wii won with the second impression - unique experience. If Sony copies the Upad successfully then the experiences will be similar or the same. So the it comes to the 3rd impression: price point. We don't know the WiiU's exact price point, but we have a ballpart betwee 250 and 350 dollars. 400 is possible, but I don't think it is at all likely. So if we take the high end for WiiU, that's 350. Comes with a tablet controller. To get the same game experience and WiiU offers someone will have to own a Vita, which currently costs 250 dollars, as well as purchase a PS4. So unless PS4 costs 100 dollars, WiiU wins on the third impression: price. "But wait" you say, "PS3/Vita connectivity already happens, so all a person would have to buy is a vita to get the same WiiU experience. That's only 250 Dollars." You'd be right, which is another reason why I think WiiU will sell for 250. But even if it doesn't, and we give a 100 dollar advantage to PS3/Vita; WiiU looks better than PS3. Its at least a half step above, if not a full step. So it wins on the first impression. Plus, it has the psychological effect of the "the latest new thing", whereas PS3 is old hat. WiiU is going to sell like hotcakes based on it being a new thing. And by the time PS4 comes around, with whatever price point it sells at (I'm thinking 400 min for any kind of "quantum leap"), then we'll have 2 competing consoles with about the same graphics, about the same play experience, and one that is 50 to 150 dollars cheaper. WiiU wins again. So i'm pretty much counting Sony out of the next generation. They squandered all their PS2 goodwill on PS3, which flopped and has been bad PR for them for the most part. I don't see a way that they can match or beat what WiiU offers without it costing lots more than the WiiU will cost. |
I was reading trought the thread and i found this here, this post is just wow, you got it all figured out alread man, you know exactly how the next gem "console war" will happen years before it even starts, youre fantastic. Ever considered a career as a psychic ?
Trying to predict the future much maybe ?
O and the "flop" PS3, as you called it, is the best selling console this year by far, it also happens to be selling faster tham the 360 when you line up the launches since ever and in theory holds the bigest chunk of the conventional gamers market, Wii sold more but mostly cause it sold to a diferent market tham 360 and PS3 did, the HD twins shared the more conventional (many times called hardcore but i dont realy like that term) gamers market, Wii only got a small share of those onboard, wich is why the WiiU is aiming to keep pleasing the casuals but also apeal to this market they couldnt get last generation by making a more powerfull machine capable of getting 3rd parties interested in developing theyre big games for Nintendo as well.
I think the sucess of the WiiU depends on how much ppl will decide to comit to this new console even before knowing anythign about the next box and the new playstation. If Nintendo has a good marketing strat and realy delivers an interesting enought product its on the right way to be the top seller console next gem, if it fails to impress ppl will choose to wait and them itll be all about how superior or not the new Microsoft and Sony conseles are.
