Why PS4 won't be cutting edge, and neither will Xbox3 - or Why Nintendo might win next gen

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Crono141 said:

Except there's already an equivalently specced machine that sits at that price point and below, that gets all the same games minus Sony's first party.  The only people who are going to buy a PS3 going forward are the fanboy kids who have to have their parents buy it for them.   The next gen is starting, and can start at the exact same price point as LAST GEN PS3.  PS3 will not hit those sales numbers.  There are better consoles people can spend the exact same amount of money on.  And blu-ray players are cheap now.

What do you mean "same games minus Sony's first party" and "there are better consoles"?

If that's X360 and Wii U you are refering to you got problems with both

Many people will choose PS3 over X360 because of exclusives and free online.

And Wii U has the same problem as a typical launch console. Not many games. You dont even get most of the upcoming multiplats for the Wii U.

Look up the sales. PS3 is on top dominating and Sony is so confident in future sales that it just released another version (Super Slim) and increased the price (at least in NA). That speaks a lot don't you think.

Next gen has not even started and won't truly have started even with the Wii U because we won't see any next gen multiplats until PS4 and Nextbox are released.

Yeah, it shows how full of themselves sony still is.  In the hardcore market, Xbox owns this gen.  There are 3 upcoming games for PS3 that I'm aware of that are exclusive and might be worth having a PS3 for.  Then there's halo 4, and all the Mario goodness on WiiU.  PS3 is not a strong system, and it never has been.  PS3 might surpass Xbox before its all said and done, but it'll never breach 100 million.  That is a pipe dream.

You are correct in that this holiday season is pretty sad for the PS3, but how can you name Halo 4 and say that one game makes a holiday lineup for a system?

And the PS3 absolutely is a strong system. It has Uncharted, Ratchet, inFamous, God of War, LittleBigPlanet, Gran Turismo, and all manner of other exclusive franchises that make it worth owning the system, just like the 360 and Wii. Indeed, I'm sure many people you ask would say the PS3 has the best lineup of the three, and I'm inclined to agree with them.

No, it probably won't hit 100 million. But it is leading in sales so far this year, and its lifetime sales will have been extremely respectable for any platform, considering they will be higher than any other non-Sony home console except the Wii, and higher than the NES which was the best selling game console for a decade.