Sony seems in the best position to lead the 8th gen console race....the ball is so far in Sony's court that they have a 10ft step ladder to the hoop

I think Sony will do wonderful this upcoming console generation with the PS4; and that will also enhance the sales ofthe VITA.

You are right; but trolls want to troll and nothing more.

Yes, the exclusive content crap also disturbs me. I can understand MS and $ony for doing it but we as a gamer lose content for sure with 3rd-party-games. But 1st-party-games definitely need competition to get even better in my opinion. Sad thing to me is the situation won't change ever. $ony and MS are just too big to fail in my opinion. Only solution - one company quits gaming :)

But overall I don't want such a situation. I want competition, I want to have a choice.

They seem to be making good decisions based on the current state of the industry. But the industry is changing very much right now which brings in a lot of unknown factors, so I can't really say they have anything locked.

Sony is in a position to do well next gen, but they have very little room for error. One slip up and it could screw them over big time.

Except it's not necessarily trolling.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2011/10/22/the-playstation-vita-is-set-to-succeed

We had many articles like this one back then. Look how it turned out...Praising a console before its (and the competitor's) release is dangerous.

However I do think the PS4 is in a good position to succeed. Unlike MS Sony managed not to completely fuck the PR up, devs seem to like the console, the specs are good, gamers also seem to like it so far.

I remember the same kind of threads/articles before Vita came out.

Not yet, I think the next years are going to actually be the hardest.

In the midst of a slow economy, and a shrinking console market, Sony needs the PS4 to be a success. Gaming division as lost SOOO much $$ over the PS3, and if the PS4 takes such a loss on hardware it ain't good. I mean of course we won't be seeing a 599 disaster, but still.

Vita will lose them $$ for a while if they want to keep it from irrelevance. I mean it was projected to be profitable able 3 years at a $250 price. I wonder what a $199 will force those projections to.

This is actually more of an uphill battle. Some people don't seem to understand that Sony is in the most precarious and unstable position of all the big 3 right now. They simply don't have the $$.

You must of misunderstood my post...