[Opinion] Sony pulled NEO from E3 because they realized it would be the weakest of the 3 consoles within a year

[Nautilus]

vivster said:

Nautilus said:

LOL

No, it isnt.You could say that NOW they have a better brand awareness than the two of them, but much stronger?No way in hell, especially since Nintendo KILLED Sony and Microsoft last gen.But even in the NOW, Nintendo have much better brand streght.Sony is doing so well now because of mainly two things:First they did all things right.Marketing, third party deals, PR, and so on.Second is that they have all western third party and most japanese third party game go only to PS.So most things that makes them successful arent actually in their control.If Nintendo gets their shit together(And I agree its going to be hard) and gets third party support and japanese support, and supposing that their version arent lesser than the other ones, Sony will have NOTHING on Nintendo.Nintendo IP, brand awareness, nostalgia would just run over Sony in that regard.Sony has some good IPs, but not nearly in the same quantity or quality as Nintendo.

Sony is ahead now, but anything can happen in the next few years.

I wouldn't call selling 10% more consoles than a console with a really bad start as "killing". Sony's brand strength is never selling less than 80 million consoles. What exactly is Nintendo's strength? A brand so strong that it can't even convince 15m people to buy a console with many great exclusives that they can't get anywhere else? Doesn't sound that strong to me. BTW having3rd party exclzusives is a greatsign of brand strength and proper management and public relations. If Nintendo can't even entice developers making games for their console how can they hope to entice people to buy their console?

The PS3 sold millions more software than the Wii despite being millions of units behind. Only shows how low Nintendo consumer's investment is with their consoles.

Nintendo beat Sony once in 4 console cycles. Slightly.

the difference last gen is that Nintendo did sell more than Sony yes, but the real difference is that they made so much more profit than Sony.Success is not measured in the number of consoles you sell, but how much money you make selling it and the softwares.Sony bled money last gen, while nintendo printed it.Not only that, but even with a console that sold only 15 million, it manages to get insane atach ratios with many games, something that Sony wouldnt be able to do.But enough about that, its not constructive to the point im trying to make.

The point that I am trying to do is that 3rd party are not loyal, they will go where the money is.While I do agree that having all erd party with them now IS  a sign of their current strenght, that could easily change, because as I said, they will go where the money is.If Nintendo manages to get everything right with NX(and please spare me the "Nintendo dosent know what it is doing" kind of thought), they can "steal the biggest draw of the PS system.And while PS has some truly great franchises, such as Uncharted and God of War, they dont come even near the appeal that Nintendo IPs have, like Mario, Zelda, Smash, Splatoon, Fire Emblem, and many many more.

I do love Playstation.The PS2 is my second favorite console ever, but I can also see the potential(and the flaws) of both companies.Now we only need to wait and see what the NX is all about.If the NX ends not having enough appeal(in my vision at least), I will grant you that you were right.