SONY rating cut again by S&P. *Update: Moodys follow suit.

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Tridrakious said:

d21lewis said:

Mummelmann said:

d21lewis said:
One of the reasons why I don't think there is ever going to be a Playstation 4.

This is also why the PS3 was discontinued after three years on the market like everyone said.

 

Hey, I'm as optimistic as they come.  I believed in the Wii when everybody was dogging it, I grabbed a 360 when it didn't sell very well during its first year, I repeated that the PS3 would come into  its own after the initial slump, I said time and time again that the 3DS would be fine after its first Christmas, I bought a Dreamcast a week before Sega quit the console business, and I didn't sell my VIta, yet.  I think that the Wii U and next Xbox are going to be the only consoles on the market for a long time.  Sony will say that the PS3 still has untapped potential and, unlike the competition, there was no need to create a new console but I think that will be a smoke screen.

It's just something I believe, though.  I"ve been wrong before.

It will be an interesting turn if Sony can keep the PS3 a viable platform that sells at least 7 to 8 million units a year for about 2 to 3 years after the Next Xbox and Wii U launch. Interesting because Sony could pitch to third parties that the PS3 has a stronger userbase than the new systems and it's a platform they have used countless times in the past.

Whereas with the Wii U and Xbox 720, there isn't much of a base yet. Games like The Last of Us, God of War: Ascension, Beyond: Two Souls and Potentially another PS3 Killzone will push hardware. Showing that third parties will have a safer time staying with the current generation of hardware, while Microsoft and Nintendo are pushing developers and publishers to jump to even more expensive hardware.

Can Sony pull that off, hell no. But it would be an interesting tactic if they could.

How would Sony have a stronger user base? Are the people who played the 360 and Wii just going to not buy the next console?