| shams said: Given how dominant Sony was last gen, and how late the PS3 came to the market - this reaction from Sony fans was sort of inevitable. With the PS3 "slowing" building momentum, it seems likely that some day this generation the PS3 will dominate - its just hard to predict exactly when that is. Its quite excusable for people back in early '07 to think domination would occur early '08 - just as people are now predicting domination to occur sometime in '09. Its pretty amusing watching the market work at the moment - Wii is obviously dominating, but instead of the 360 openly competing vrs the Wii - its primary role seems to be holding the PS3 back (taking exclusives, etc). I'm sure its all part of MS's big strategy... |
I wouldn't say big strategy... but look at it this way.
The Wii is a callback to the earlier days of gaming. Not the earliest... because back then videogame consoles doubled as crappy computers and the like.
However back to the NES/SNES/PS1 days of "Gaming is meant to be fun, and do play games... and that's what a system does."
Do one thing and do it well is the motto of the Wii.
Versus the Multimedia devices that play games but do other things as well. The wii doesn't even play DVDs!
Microsoft would be more then happy for consoles to take this step "backwords" as it means if sony capitulates to it... no more videogame systems that act as the "hub of your living room" controlling everything in the way Sony wants it.
Insead Microsoft can do that... by making the idea of living room computers for mulimedia functions more acceptable.
