I honestly think it'll happen. The Wii will continue to sell at a high pace right now, for about a year longer depending on what they have in store at E3 maybe 2.
By that time I see PS3's price becoming 300$ or less, which will fuel many PS2 owners that havent gotten a next-gen system to get one now. I also see PS3 having the best exclusives by then. I predict Wii will have trouble with 3rd party support this entire gen, it wont get better and they'll have to rely on 1st party games the entire time. I doubt you'll see another Mario, we'll see another Zelda, and maybe Starfox and Donkey Kong, the rest are niche games.
PS3's 3rd party support for exclusives will grow more and more, due to the amount of people who own the system rising as the price lowers and more games arrive. I also think Sony will start paying for exclusives more and more as of now if they havent already.
Now you could say but the Wii and 360 will also have a price drop by the time PS3 comes out. With the Wii, I think whoever wants one, will get one within the next year or so, or already has one. After that I just dont see the Wii lasting, technology-wise.
As for the 360, by the time 360 has a price drop, PS3 will be the big name. I feel like the PS3 is just getting started in 2008, Sony has only shown very few games compared to whats expected to release on the platform (When you think about it MGS4 is only 1 heavy hitter PS3 has released, in a swarm of many to come). All of 360's heavy hitters have come out (i know this is an old argument let me continue). Lately all i've seen from Microsoft is the buying of a bunch of RPG's. The way Microsoft is doing things are the spend spend spend way. They kept thinking of now and not the future. The 360 launched with overhyped mediocre stuff while people waited for the big guns in 07'. The big guns were released (literally since almost all were shooters) and now Microsoft is realizing you need more then shooters to win this race, so now they're buying up all the RPG's ...ok and if that doesnt work? Buy up all the strategy games?. It doesnt work like that, Sony is the most well rounded company reputation and game-wise imo. All of their previous consoles has had the widest variety and I think the same will happen this gen.
I'd list games/franchises expected to release exclusively on PS3, but I dont want to make this long post an already longer one. Oh and *Flameshield up*.
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