sales2099 said:
VGKing said:
sales2099 said:
VGKing said:
sales2099 said:
ganoncrotch said:
sales2099 said:
PS2 business model = Sell weak/moderate powerful hardware at a low, mass market price.
Even the Gamecube had more power then PS2. But this gen, WiiU will have the title as cheapest and most competetively priced.
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when the playstation 2 launched it was by no means weak hardware, sure the gamecube and the xbox were more powerful than it, but they came out almost 2 years after the playstation 2 launched, when it did the only other system on the market was the dreamcast and it absolutely blew that out of the water in terms of power and packing what became a load of households first Dvd player.
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I dont count the Dreamcast. Personally you gotta finish a gen to be compared at all. On that note, let me amend my definition.
PS2 business model = Sell weak/moderate powerful hardware at a low, mass market price. Launch first for head start on competition and 3rd parties.
Nintendo is the new Sony.
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Nope. Sony's strategies are completely different from Nintendo.
The PS2 might have been the weakest console last gen, but it was the first to release. It was easily able to compete with the more powerful Xbox/Gamecube. This is what Sony should do with the PS4 IMO. Release a high-end console at an affordable price, hopefully before the Xbox 720.
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Sonys strategies are NOW different from Nintendo. And thats the problem.
Underline = What WiiU is doing now.
Being "affordable high end" isnt the PS2/WiiU model and therefore isn't gonna end well. Rumors say that MS will get yet another head start on PS4 as well, so thats not helping either.
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You say Nintendo is doing the PS2 model with the Wii U? I disagree. I say they are doing the Dreamcast model.
Wait now you're saying affordable/high end isn't the PS2 or Wii U model? You're half right. PS2 was high-end at the time of its release. Wii U won't be.
Wii U won't be able to compete with PS4/720. i can guarantee you that.(at least in terms of power) Games created specifically for PS4/720 will be so advanced that they won'tn be possible on the Wii U, at least not without being largely dumbed-down.
I see next-gen being a repeat of this gen. Except this time Sony and Microsoft will have aligned launches and there won't be a $599 console on the market. This tmie people will actually have a choice.
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I dont see aligned launches. I see Xbox in 2013 with PS4 in spring 2014 at earliest. The rumormill for a 2013 PS4 simply as strong as it is for Xbox. PS3s exclusives in 2013 certainly dont help that theory that PS4 is in 2013.
But this gen was the first time in a while that people had a choice. PS1 and PS2 were so successful that their competition were almost niche in popularity. It was a dictatorship. Now Xbox and PS3 are about even in preference, with Wii enjoying success with a totally different market. This gen was the best one bar non in terms of choice.
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The thing that is going to hurt Sony here in what I've bolded is the regions where this is true, Xbox absolutely has the US market dominated, it's homeland and where it will launch first. But Sonys dominated zone is Europe where most Sony systems take from 3-9months to actually make it over here if you check the weekly sales of the Playstation 3 in Japan where the Playstation 4 will of course be making it's debut it isn't really a happy Sony market there at the moment.
