The PS3 not performing as bad as some claim?

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Stromprophet said: Death2009 said: stewacide said: If the Wii continues as strong as it has, then Nintendo would clearly have no incentive to rush a new gen'. But they do have the luxury of being able to pull the trigger on the next-next gen whenever they want. And if sales start to slump in 4-5 years, or someone else is threatening to ape their motion-senseing mass-market game, then they'd have a reason to go early. It won't continue as strong as it has, that is just a fact, all systems will dropoff. But the only companies that can sit on their systems are ms and sony, these systems are powerful enough that they don't need to make another for atleast a decade. What are they going to do? Make their next systems weaker? That would be pointless. As for "apeing" their motion senseing thingy....No worries there as nobody will bother with that. I see no reason why MS or Sony would bother going there if they have done fine without. We need an alternative to the wii stuff and MS and Sony will grant that, more so if they outsell the wii. Neither will bother to even think about it until 2009 or 2010 when it can assured this is a long term thing and not some silly 2 year fad. If Sony passes Nintendo and if the 360 maintains it's strong lead over them...why ripoff the N when you outsell them by not? I for one hope they don't and leave the motion stuff to the N. I'd disagree that M$ will be able to sit. Which is in fact why they announced the new system they are coming out with to update the 360. A tri-core processor is already behind the game as Intel is already making Quadcores now. The cell in the PS3 has 1 cpu and 7 spes (1 in reserve so not used) so technically the Cell is an 8-core unit. I'd say the PS3 can wait the longest of all of them in terms of life cycle. It also has the most room to grow and continue improving graphics and functionality over the years. Motion is probably long term. It's a logical step in not only video game playing but also computer operation in general. It is especially so in the consideration of virtual reality, which is the long term video game mission. So motion is probably here to stay. I agree, Wii will not stay strong. At least not in the US or Europe. Maybe in Japan, where they seem much less concerned with graphics at the moment.

The 360 isn't much weaker than the PS3 so I think they can wait. And what update are you talking about? I for one hope motion detection fails as I have hated the idea from the jump.