If a platform sells enough, companies find some way, some how to get a game like a title on other consoles, to be on it.  For example, HAWX on the Wii.

I haven't read the entire thread, so perhaps someone has already mentioned it.... but Sony are of course speaking the truth.

The PS2 is now taking marketshare from the Wii (and the PS3, and the X360, and argurable the handhelds too [more so PSP than DS given the similarities between PSP and a home console])

It's just that we define marketshare by generation... but real marketshare is on a real time basis, so any console that sells is possibly taking away the sales of a different console.... the PS1 was "taking" marketshare from the PS2, GC, XB and Dreamcast too.

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What is possibly meant by what Sony said though, is that the price-drop will increase the amount of marketshare the Wii loses... this will also be true (and again true it takes away from PS3 and X360 too, though perhaps not in as high a percentage) but Sony seems to be implying it will be significant, when it very likely won't be.... we will see a spike of course, but the PS2 is not as Sony said "showing little signs of slowing down".... it has already slowed quite a lot, and the price-drop can only delay that slightly, not significantly.

This almost made me shoot my beverage out my nose.  Hilarious!  Where do you guys get these numbers?  Is it all from the the secret BS ring of GameCube/Wii self-perpetuating awesomeness that the blog article, posted above, came from?

The GameCube was pretty fast -- almost as fast as the XBox, for many things, although not as flexible, by a longshot.  The PS2 was also pretty fast -- looking at the clockrate of the (awesomely designed, btw) CPU and judging without considering the vector processors is some pretty severe folly, though -- it'd be like considering the 733 MHz Pentium III of the XBox as being almost as fast as the Wii's CPU, just based on the clock.

The only thing that kept the PS2 from looking as good as the XBox, aside from the technical whiz-bang of the effective GeForce3 GPU shader tech, was a lack of texture memory.  The PS2 had almost as much as the GC, in the memory dept, and honestly, the difference wasn't that big.  Memory was pretty much the only thing holding the GC back from being as cool as the XBox as well.

If you're going to use a silly single multiplier, the Wii is, at best, "twice" as fast as the PS2 (and honestly the PS2's CPU is still faster, in terms of raw floating performance), and the X360 and PS3 outpace them both by a mile.  The biggest difference between the systems is not actually speed at all -- its memory, and frankly the Wii isn't that great in that dept. either.

Hmmm... what to say... what to say....


PS2 FOR THE WIN!!!


(I wonder if that will work)

Let's put PS2 on the front page and bump Wii down to second place, since they're competing.

Wouldn't it be grand, for Nintendo, if they could just release a new console, and wipe the board clean of all competition, except for the new stuff?  So nice, if all those PS2s just evaporated, and it didn't sell 25 million (according to that silly VGChartz place) more units since the X360's release in 2005?

Oh the grandness of owning all the "forget-the-past" marketshare, that magical land where you don't have to include the outrageously dominant console of the last gen, which is still in production, and still competing for revenue.

"La la la" anyone?

Ahahahahha!

Sony gotta be kidding me. It's the same if Nintendo in the N64 days dropped de SNES price and said that.

I dont know what effects the rice drop will have on the sales of the S2 but it did get it some press coverage on yahoo.com and a big banner on amazon.com's video game section. I'm sure it will get some extra press other places as well for hitting the $99 barrier.