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Str8knox on 22 August 2008

Not talking about you Xen. I'm talking about Billy D and kjj49 or whatever his name is.



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obieslut on 22 August 2008
leo-j said:
psrock said:
leo-j said:
Sony needs to show people that the ps3 is ahead of the 360, and then they will get sales, people dont believe it is.

 

How does Sony show that when the numbers say otherwise.

 

Im not talking about life to date sales, Im talking about hardware performance.

i agree kid

 



obieslut on 22 August 2008
Str8knox said:
Last 2 posters won't last in the forum long.

so says the bigges troll about

 



Xen on 22 August 2008
Str8knox said:
Not talking about you Xen. I'm talking about Billy D and kjj49 or whatever his name is.

Yeah, I know :)

 



leo-j on 22 August 2008
obieslut said:i agree kid

 

 

alright kid



 

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BornFirst. on 22 August 2008
Gamerace said:
Ultimately it's a business. If there's no money in being second then it's simply not worth it. Although both companies have secondary agenda's - Sony to push Blu-ray and MS to keep Sony from owning the world's livingrooms.

So far in this gen coming second has come at the expense of billions of dollars. MS is at least starting to recoop initial loses, but Sony is still just losing money. If either of them will come out ahead by the time this generation is finished is still open for debate.

On the flipside Nintendo was very profitable in 3rd last gen.

I have to agree with Gamerace here, and ultimately even if they were to achieve first place, there still will be no money for them. The debt they have racked up, both companies will definitely need a ten year plan (and i just don't see that happening)



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senortaco on 23 August 2008
Sullla said:
No, it's completely meaningless who comes in second. The only people who care about this are Internet fanboys. In order for second place to matter, there would have to be a huge dropoff between second and third place, enough so that the third place platform would no longer be receiving multiplatform third-party titles. But that will never happen this generation, because:

1) 360 and PS3 sell at virtually indistiguishable levels (+/- 10% of one another)
2) 360/PS3 must share their game libraries to recoup development cost of HD games.

As a result, the two platforms have something like 80-90% of the same games, sell at pretty much the same rate, and are bought by the same demographics. The whole "competition" is pointless. The winner derives absolutely no advantage whatsoever. The XBox "winning" over the Gamecube had no bearing at all on this generation's Wii/360 fracas. At this point, either company spending itself into the red to "win" second place is mind-bogglingly stupid.

I've said this many times before: the 360/PS3 "war" is the biggest farce in gaming history.

 

You sir I agree with. Its the one thing I try my hardest to understand how two consoles that share a good portion of their games be in a war? My only curiosity is will this cause Sony/MS to develop more 1st parties to differentiate themselves. It's one of the things that Nintendo made sure of long ago that it can be self sustained by it's OWN ip's.



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