will ff13 revive ps3?

[Kasz216]

starcraft said:

MikeB said:

colonelstubbs said:
The final fantasy series has ALWAYS repeat ALWAYS sold fantastically in Japan. Its not unreasonable to suggest FF13 will be a huge seller and boost the console. Theres no way this would take it past the Wii though, but then, that shouldnt be Sonys aim anymore

The PS3 is specced ahead for its time (of course this is reflected on price/hardware losses). The PS3 could well outlast the PS2's lifecycle for many years, the PS2 will probably sell about 140 million, IMO Sony should aim to better this.

But of course everything in due time, if the PS3 sold twice as many units as it did and the PS2 would have been discontinued IMO Sony would have been in serious financial problems. Once the hardware is cost reduced enough, bring on the mass market sales.

You put too much stock in specs, when all the evidence says the console wars haven't been about specs for a long time. The PS2 didn't have a long tail because of it's specs, it had it because it gained momentum and held it, garnered a massive userbase, and had an on-going massive majority of third party support. At this point, the PS3 has none of those things.

If it lasts as long as the PS3, it will only be because Sony puts it on lifesupport, and it will never sell more than 75 million consoles. Frankly, I don't see it selling more than 45 million before the new console are out. 75 million by the time it dies is EXTREMELY optomistic, let-alone the possibility of beating 140 million.

Your last paragraph is the most contradictory. In the video game industry, success breeds success, not the other way around. Even when Microsoft subsidised the Xbox, and Nintendo priced the Gamecube below the the PS2, sales didn't explode, because they did not have a history of success in that generation with regard to sales, software and mindshare.

The PS3 is not the Gamecube of this generation, because this generation has no Gamecube, but it is safe to say that it's sales are not about to experience PS2-like gains this generation. Only the Wii can lay claim to those sorts of sales, and the PS3 has a direct competitor that can do everything it can do game-wise in the Xbox 360, a console that currently has BETTER third-party support than Sony's machine.

 

It's never been about the specs. Even back with the NES.

The Sega Mega Drive was a failure in Japan because of the NES. The thing was dead in Japan before the SNES ever came out. Japan, you've got to have the goods upfront.

Ironically the Genisis was the HD console of it's era. As even then the other companies tried to paint Nintendo as kiddy... partially due to Nintendo backing down to the senators, while Sega kept it bloody and invented terms like "Blast Processing" to suggest the Mega Drive was way more impressive.

The whole thing worked... with the teen audience. But failed elsewhere... and eventually the SNES prevailed in America.

Sega I believe captured the undeveloped Europeon market though. Europe's never really been Nintendo land.