I have 360 and i love it and i will say that ps3 is the more powerfull system.It may cost too much and it doesnt have to many games but it has the playstation brand and leigons of fans all over the world. It might be in the gutter right now but watch a year from know its going to rock.
I would agree, I love my friends 360 but I also spend a lot of time playing my brothers ps3, and I'm looking forward to buying my own ps3 set up with decent surround sound and anHD tv at the end of a summers working. I do feel however that by saying the ps3 will get better this will inspire many users to start saying how its rubbish and expensive and that ithas similar titles to the xbox and the usual stuff. Have to check back on this post later!
There once was a company that had legions of fans, and they all went elsewhere once that company stopped making games that interested the general populace. This company was Nintendo. Gamers are mostly brand agnostic. They will go wherever the interesting games go. And right now, they're not on the PS3. The PS3 is not going to out and out fail, but I don't see it being market leader. It has a price point that is too high, relatively few exclusives, and very little momentum. That the Game Boy Advance is outselling it is very telling.
It'll continue to be somewhat relevant, but I don't expect it to every be competing for first overall. I doubt it will ever be anything but third.
It won't fail ( the Playstation brand is too strong for that) but it most likely won't be as successful as the PS2 or the PS. IMO I think it will end up with 40 million sold.
The console has been out for about half a year. It pretty much is still like a launch where they have almost no games and a very big price. The games will come and the price will drop. Till then I can't say it will fail or succeed.
I agree with you Oilers99. The PS3 simply doesn't have enough top quality games out yet to attract many people to its very high price tag, and high as it is they are losing money on them. They will not fail since Sony is a very large Electronics company with many products other than game consoles. But the Xbox 360 is making them look bad though. In my opinion the only game franchise for Sony that can increase PS3 sales would be KillZone. So all in all Sony will just fall behind the 360 in sales.
It is the priced and the lack of exclusive games. I don't know what is going to happen to the ps3 right, if it is going to fail or suceed. The only thing that matters is that if the Ps3 continues like for an extra year with not that much improvement, then I guarentee you that the ps3 will fail.
How did PS2's launch in the first 6 monthscompare to PS3's? How much more significant was the sales for PS2 over PS3 in the first 6 months? Just curious.
Sony is playing a dangerous game with the high price point. A lot of people are going the route where they buy both a 360 and a wii. Once you have those two systems, even with a price drop, its likely to be content and not bother grabbing a 3rd system
It's way too damn expensive. 700$?The PS2 costed 300 dollars less, and it was way better. there are not many games for the PS3, while the Wii and 360 rule on. I hate the Wii, and the XBOX 360 is awesome, and that's why it's winning right now. Because the XBOX is better, more games, less expensive. Do the math, just because you like the PS and the PS 2 doesn't mean that you have to pick the next generation over something that's better.
How did PS2's launch in the first 6 monthscompare to PS3's? How much more significant was the sales for PS2 over PS3 in the first 6 months? Just curious.
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If I'm not mistaken, the PS3 has around the same nmber of consols sold as the PS2 did during this point in its lifetime. The problem is, PS2-like sales right now are not going to get the PS3 the catch up to the 360 in NA let a lone anywhere near the Wii's numbers.
i will say that ps3 is the more powerfull system.tryonis
I'm interested in knoing if you're basing this off anything other then Sony PR and the thought that a $600 system must be more powerful then a $400 sytem.
Failure and success is relative and it depends on what one aims for. If Sony aimed for PS2 level of success (or at least to be the market leader even by a smaller margin), then most people think that the way things are going that's at best unlikely and at worst impossible.
If by 'fail' though you mean a Dreamcast kind of failure where it will be discontinued before the end of the generation then No i don't think it will fail that way.
I hated that the dream cast failed. I had one, and it had the best graphics of the time, it was awesome. It wasn't overpriced or anything. But, there were almost no games. I had Soul Calibur one and that's it. But it was still rad. They didn;t even sell them where i lived. I couldn't believe how under-rated it was.
There is not enough games and the price IS too high for those who just want to buy a games console. The same could be said about the PS2 at this time last-gen, but the difference is that the ps2 didn't have any competition. This is not the case anymore.
Short, Sweet, and To the point. Fail, no, but the don't seem to have any sense of urgency. Seven months later, you still can't find an Wii and PS3s are just sitting everywhere. They've had one excluisive released and the third party titles continue to come out months after they were released on the 360. They need to get their act together, and they need to do it now.
I kind of feel the same way. The 360 serves me well now but some time next year I will want a PS3 for sure. I could go without it but since I want to at least play FFXIII and GT5 out of it's exclusives it will be good to have. It could fail sales wise but that will have no effect on whether or not I purchase one. I bought the DC after it was cancelled so I could play Shenmue and would do the same with the PS3 to play any games i want to play on it.
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