| EdHieron said: The Playstation 3 has a sizeable audience that likes a certain type of game. Do you see that audience sticking around for PS4 if it's not capable of delivering that type of game and some other console is? I really don't see fans of Uncharted, The Last of Us, etc. being very interested in PS4 if its all Wii Sports clones and Party games. |
Are you saying that the PS2 didn't have games equivalent to those? Or that Sony wouldn't make games like Uncharted and The Last of Us for the PS4 if it wasn't high-power? Or that video game consoles are only capable of EITHER having high-quality adventure and shooting titles OR Wii Sports clones and Party games?
Because as far as I can see, one of those must be what you're saying. And all of them are nonsense.
The fact of the matter is, the vast majority of gamers on ALL platforms go where the games they want are. Games like Uncharted will still be on the system, and therefore any fan of Uncharted will get the PS4 whether it's more powerful than 10 Wii Us put together or it's less powerful than the Wii U with some new control feature.
As for third parties, it's worth noting that, if Sony goes the similar-to-Wii-U route, there'll be a lot of PS4/WiiU cross-platform titles. And if my prediction is right, and Sony goes WiiU-like (within 2x the power) while MS goes for high power, Sony will have the graphically better version of most multiplatforms, because fewer multiplatform titles will be ported all the way up to the Xbox Successor.
So here's another way for you to think about it. MS is almost certain to go high-power. Nintendo has gone fairly low-power (as the new gen goes). MS has much more money to spend on their systems than Sony does, and thus Sony is unlikely to be able to beat MS in power without going bankrupt. This leaves Sony with two obvious choices:
1. Go high-power and relatively exorbitant price, making it the "worse" version of MS's console.
2. Go low-power and relatively modest price, moderately more powerful than Wii U, and be the "better" version of Nintendo's console.
I know which way I'd go, if I were the CEO of SCE.
