HappySqurriel on 15 April 2008
| TheRealMafoo said: It's posable that no console going forward ever will (not anytime in the next 20 years or so anyway). Here is why. I have every confidence that the PS3, by the end of its life, will outsell the PS2. It has far more reason to last longer on the market. It has online, HD in ever console, plays the movie format of the next generation, still has a ton of untapped potential, and due to gaming budgets today, is about as powerful a system as anyone will develop to for a while. The reason it will sell less software, is because a lot less will be made for it. It cost a lot to make this generation games. It's been regulated to only high end development shops. The PS2 was seeing a what, a thousand games a year average for it's lifetime? I don't expect anything close to that for the PS3 or 360. The Wii, maybe. |
It has more reason, but it is still missing the most important reason to last longer ... Sales
The PS2 continues to sell software today because there are tens of millions of PS2 owners who still haven't bought a 'current' generation console; the Gamecube and XBox had far more going for them when it came to technology, but because their userbases were so small and their (primary) selling features (over the PS2) were eclipsed by the release of newer consoles their lives ended early ...
