"obviously i don't mean they should stop competing" ..... if they r not competing for market share what r they competing for? if they were competing for profits the consoles would still cost $500 and $600 ...... and thus wii would sell much much more... they r competing with each other plus the wii. if you noticed ps3 dropped to $299.99 and then wii dropped to $199.99. They would compete with the wii more aggressivle for exclusives if their exclusives made sense on their system. With the ps arc and natal ur gna see them competing for motion controlled games bein exclusive to their systems soon. if ms and sony give up fighting for marketshare there will be no exclusives for each console taking advantages of each consoles strengths and there wudn't be no innovation on psn or xbox live. Unless they become partners selling the same system. They are always gna wanna sell more than each other. "focus on software" that is what they r doing... trying to get better and exclusive games for their systems so ppl will buy more of their system than the others....

They had a reason to fight for marketshare in the past, the whole point of the razors and blades model is to gain enough marketshare to a) be relevant enough to achieve substantial developer support and b) to get such a lead that developers flock to their system. a) is already achieved and neither are not going to lose it by being less aggressive now, b) is no longer reasonably possible by competing mainly with each other.

They would both still have exclusives, mostly first party ones.

People have to remember that marketshare is not an end in itself. It is a means to the end that is profit. At this point though, fighting for market-share amongst eachother is working against the goal of profit. Competing less aggressively achieves the end goal better than competing aggressively.

As for competing with Wii, Nintendo more likely cut because it's sales were in decline, not because of anything to do with the PS3. Either way, it hasn't helped them achieve more profit, has it? Nintendo's lower weekly marketshare has much more to do with their own decline due to their own software drought than anything that's happened with the HD consoles. Nor do they need to compete over third party support with the Wii, it's clear the Wii isn't getting the same support anyway. Only one major game in the whole generation has jumped from PS3 to Wii.

Where are you getting this?  The game even uses a (bloom heavy) new engine and models.  It's been redone ground up, like Mario Galaxy was.

Right, because God of War Collection and various PSP ports (Parappa, Ape Escape, Popolocrois, etc) just needed more time. ;)

It might have been...... if the whole thread and BrandomM's post weren't referring to sales and marketshare. 

^his comeback was so epic and so perfect. the guy wanted to be a hotshot and diss on HD consoles but than gamings beast came and made a comeback so perfect and so awesome it made me LMAO

Fight for the marketshare is what gave you a $299 PS3 and 360, why do you not like that?

You're an odd guy.

So, how's your great FFXIII vs NSMB prediction going?

Yeah, I'd love if Nintendo started subsidizing my games too but there's little point about discussing what they should do based on my interests, my interests don't motivate them.

Why are you talking about Nintendo in a topic you made about MS and Sony?