WilliamWatts said:
Noone knows the competition? Its kind of obvious really as you've got in order of current market power: 1. Nintendo. (3DS) You know the PS3 was Sony's third console, the N64 was Nintendos third console and the Saturn was Segas third console. Just because a company is learning and evolving doesn't assure them market position or power. Even if the PSP2 is better than the PSP it doesn't mean that its going to be better relative to the competition of the time. If the Playstation brand is defined by the big third party games which Nintendo now has, and the critically acclaimed Sony first party games how can they compete with the critically hated Nintendo games if said Nintendo games sell in the multiples of 5M just as often as a Sony title crosses 2M? How many new 10M selling franchises has Sony made since the PS1? 0. How many 5M selling new I.P franchises has Sony made since the PS1? I think 0 as well. How many 10M selling franchises does Sony have? 1. How does Sony as a publisher compete with Nintendo when 34 of the top 50 best selling titles are Nintendo published? There are many good reasons why the PSP2 probably can't compete with the 3DS. Sure anything could happen, but the betting folk will still say Nintendo 99/100 because. 1. 3DS is first to market with all the momentum of a system winning console and all the hype.
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...Ok we know what company is in competition of the handheld market but we don't know what there going to come up with next gen thats what I mean.
Sony went in a different direction with the PS3 then they did with the PSOne and PS2, I like to think of it as an experiment, the PSOne and PS2 was simple, cheap and played great games, it didn't have the best graphics or really any add ons or features. All we want is a console that plays great games. The PS3 is a beast, they put tons and tons of money in making this a monster. The main thing they did wrong was when the PS3 launched it had practically no good games and it was very expensive (opposite of PSOne and PS2).
I know that even if the PSP2 is better then PSP doesn't mean it'll sell a whole lot better, but assuming 3DS is going to take over the handheld market again without knowing anything about Sony, Apple and maybe even Microsoft's next gen handheld is not very intelligent. Like I said wait and see what the competition announces for a next gen handheld, then you can make your assumptions, because right now a lot of people are sounding very fanboyish.
"If the Playstation brand is defined by the big third party games which Nintendo now has"
I don't understand that line? the Playstation brand is not defined by just good third party games but just all over good games period, thats first second and third party, also what do you mean by "which Nintendo has"??? have you not noticed the Wii's third party support this gen...are you talking about all the shovelware games the PSOne and PS2 had?
That's just Nintendo, there fanbase always goes crazy over Mario games, always has. And what do you mean how can Sony compete with Nintendo? they beat Nintendo for 2 generations, just because they don't have 10 million sellers doesn't mean the console isn't going to be the market leader or sell well.
Like I said again, I'm sure the betting man was putting all there money on the Nintendo 64 when the PSOne came out. We know that getting to market early doesn't matter that much (Wii released a year after X360), who said third party is going to completely ignore the PSP2 when it comes out? Nintendo is mainly good at selling first party games, not so much third party. Here's a fact you might want to ponder over, as of December 2009 Nintendo sold 3.2 billion games, Sony close to 3 billion. Nintendos been out for 10 years longer then Sony...hmmm who sells software better?
