Imperial said: If the XBOX 360 wasn't arround then all development would have been geared towards the PS3 , The PS2 has a great track record and against 1 competitor ( the Wii) the developers would have been queing up for a guaranteed profit and a reliable platform. Without the 360 the PS3 would most definetley have had MORE sofware. Your making the assumption that devleopers would see the PS3 in the same light they do now , Most development resources would have been allocated to the development of PS3 games (you keep on forgetting about the PS2's dominance in a market with only one competitor even the least talented of Analysts would have predicted the demise of the Wii, they would have made round about the same number of PS2 games however.) |
January 1st 2005, Rockstar just finished production of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas the PS3 is rumored to be released in late in 2006 but there are no solid details; do you begin development of Grand Theft Auto 4 for the PS3 under the assumption that Sony launches it in 2006 and its userbase is a decent size late in 2007, or do you begin work on Grand Theft Auto: Big Easy for the PS2 knowing that its userbase will still be huge?
It is not about "how developers see the PS3" ... the simple fact is there is almost no chance that any developer would have began PS3 projects when they began XBox 360 projects, they would have (most likely) started PS2 projects in their place, and the PS3 would have had a much worse first year library. Why is this so hard to understand?
