But the Console would sell a ton better and when they make sequals they will be on a system with a huge install base. BTW What do you mean when you say first year cause last I checked SMG was the Wii's best game.

 ps2 soared past dreamcast becuase the ps1 was really popular and the perople were ready to upgrade and they could still play their ps1 games on the ps2, and sega stopped the life cycle of saturn short and quickly relased the dreamcast so people were scared that if they bought a console that they would have a new 1 released shortly after

"But the Console would sell a ton better and when they make sequals they will be on a system with a huge install base. "

This would perhaps work for first-party titles. But "independent" studios like Konami normally don't make 50 mio$ games just to help a console sell more units. Aside from that I doubt that the PS3 would have sold more in 2008 then it will now sell in 2007+2008. Since titles like MGS4 take longer to develop than Motorstorm/Genji/whatever and you need to ship dev-kits with finalized hardware to developers anyway, the earlier you can get the console under people the better.

Metal Gear and Final Fantasy would never be launch titles because Konami and Square-Enix wouldn't start development until 12 months before the system was launched (targeting a second year release to ensure an established userbase).

Holding off a year would have given the PS3 the benefit of a more powerful CPU/GPU (due to the 65nm process), less expensive hardware, and a more established movie format (probably HD-DVD) ...

@happy squirrel

I hope that was sarcasm.

I assume you're refering to the HD-DVD comment?

No, it wasn't sarcasm ... if it wasn't for the PS3 Blu-Ray would be DOA.

Kyros said: "But the Console would sell a ton better and when they make sequals they will be on a system with a huge install base. " This would perhaps work for first-party titles. But "independent" studios like Konami normally don't make 50 mio$ games just to help a console sell more units. Aside from that I doubt that the PS3 would have sold more in 2008 then it will now sell in 2007+2008. Since titles like MGS4 take longer to develop than Motorstorm/Genji/whatever and you need to ship dev-kits with finalized hardware to developers anyway, the earlier you can get the console under people the better. BTW What do you mean when you say first year cause last I checked SMG was the Wii's best game. And? The Wii was available in November 2006 and SMG was available in November 2007. I take my personal freedom and make it a second-year title.

I guess you have a point.

BTW Wii firsts year=nov. 19, 2006-nov. 19, 2007. Last I checked a year is 12 months not 2.

HD DVD would had raped blu ray.

If it was delayed I wouldn't have gotten the enjoyment and HD gaming I have gotten out of it since April.

I'm not joking, there was no way I was gonna get a 360 (nothing against the 360, I just don't like it that much for various reasons) and I've been able to enjoy Motorstorm, Resistance, VF5, Oblivion, Ninja Gaiden Sigma, and all the numerous downloads like Blast Factor, Gripshift, Calling all Cars, Super Stardust HD, GT HD and others on my (at the time) new HDTV.

Not to mention all the multimedia capabilities (blu ray being one) and the fact that my 60 GB version plays PS1 and 2 games, so I had all those games to play too.

I'm glad they released it when they did.

If anything it should have come out earlier. If they had gotten it out in 2005 (which doesn't seem like it would have been possible, at least from what I read which hinted at technical issues), and if they had kept their PS2 games coming out, I think it would've gone much better for them. Since every PS3 would've had BC, the PS2 releases would appeal to current PS2 owners and new PS3 owners, plus, everybody wouldn't have been as disappointed that the PS3 isn't the worlds above the 360 that people were promised it would be.