Sony/Microsoft Could Make Nintendo Very Uncomfortable This Holiday

[DanneSandin]

Sharu said:

DanneSandin said:

 

I think Sony is counting on subscriptions and SW sales to off set the costs of the consoles... At a $349 price point the PS4 would be extremely competitive; they got some really good 1st party games (but they ain't got nothing on Nintendo in that aspect), but they'd also enjoy all 3rd party multiplats - something Wii U probably won't. Buy 3 games for the PS4 will make it profitable/break even.

Did you heard that game development has its own costs? So to offset 150$ losses Sony will need to sell not 3 but i think around 10 games for each console sold... Are you seriosely expect do get such an attach rate in 3 months after PS4 launch?

And also on the 3rd party multiplats. I'm not bothering on the 2013-14  year multi - most of it will be on a WiiU (except for some stupid desisions from EA like on their sports games). Later WiiU may lose multi plats, but not in the first wave of 'nextgen' games...

Well, that would also mean that Wii U isn't profitable after just one game purchased...? Still, selling the PS4 for a $100 loss isn't as bad as selling it at a $200 like they did with PS3. But I totally agree that if this plan doesn't pan out for Sony, theyre pretty much screwed...

We've just seen Watch Dog being confirmed for Wii U as well as PS4, so I agree with you that we will see quite a few multiplats in 2013-2014, but that'll soon dry up though, and in the process huting the Wii U sales..