JHawkNH said:
I agree completely with you that it is to early to claim that the PS3 will not pass the 360 for second place. What I was dissagreeing with was that Sony has plenty of time to turn it around. Because of the lead that Sony spotted Microsoft, they need to turn things around now. |
In fact, even if they would be able to turn the market around, it would not be sufficient for it. If the PS-3 is unable to get the first place till the end off 2008 it will probably be a financial disaster in the same region that the X-box had last generation.I would even say: If Sony was unable to turn around and overpower the Xbox 360 till the end of this year it will probably be doomed. Otherwise Software developes will restructure their financial support for the PS-3 and this would be a desaster. The slow sales rate together with the low software attachement rate and the high development costs is simply pure horror for most developers.
It was generally expected that they wouldf rule this generation but if they don't get the turnaround soon there will be backlash. They trusted Sony and invested so much money in this plattform but if the plattform doesn't show in the near nfuture that it was the right decision they will either reduce the budget for the PS-3 to a bare minimum or drop out of the PS-3 development altogether. In this situation they would probably loose their in house delopers too. They would be in no position to keep them from making multi plattform games.
