curl-6 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
They had to save blu ray or else the venture would've been a failure. Yes, I'll agree they came off like a bunch off snobs.later on I read up on it and understood their position because Sony has a track record of influencing playback formats formats inside and outside the gaming industry. I went on the 360 and was apart of he Wii60 group. Remember that? (Lol)once uncharted 2 came out I jumped on the PS3 and fell in love with Sony all over again. This one their first party got stronger.
the Wii didn't scoop up the ps2 casual base though (or well even a substantial amount). That was a new market of casuals who don't traditionally game on consoles. If you look at the PS3 and 360s lifetime sales Microsoft capitalized on sonys mistakes by shaving off half of their previous market share. They both had over 160+ million consoles between them which was what the ps2 sold. The reason people noticed nintnendos market wasn't traditional was because hardcore third party games found it hard to make major profit off of a 100 million selling platform and Nintendos first party was selling brilliantly. I was happy for them.
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I don't buy for a second that the 70 million PS2 buyers who never got a PS3 all went to Microsoft. Wii and PS2 were both the go-to mainstream of their generation, naturally there would be overlap.
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Explain how Microsoft gained nearly 60 million 360 units the gen after the PS3 which allowed them to maintain strong software sales. Sony built that market up after they expanded the market to twice its size after they dethroned nintnedo. Nintnedo had bad third party software sales. For a console that sold 100 million consoles sold. Most websites credited Nintendo with finding a way to sell their product to casuals to who don't generally game at all. They circumvented Sony instead of competing with them. Since Microsoft was competing to woo gamers away from Sony nintnedo was surely not going to petition third parties for their games afterwards. Anyway, the software sales on the Wii does not equate to that of the ps2 which pushed far more software in quantity and quality from third party even though it was fewer for first party.
