Ok I am sure most of you ahve seen a free xbox 360 advertisement online or a ps3 one. I am wondering if you complete the offers do they really send you one? What holds them to that. How am I to prove that they owe me an Xbox or ps3? Are these ads for real or are they gimmicks?
I would think it would make since for them to release a 360 with a bigger hard drive and HDMI. If they did and made the price right then that would make a good reason to buy a 360 over the PS3. But probably a joke.
No i do not expect them to sell 20 million units in 4 months but the fact remains that for the 3rd party developers its more profitable this generation to go multiplatform since no 1 platform has a super dominant market share like PS2 did last generation.
They could offer a better medium for the games and the PS3 is a better system than the 360 and nintendo but game makers truely dont care if the system is better they care about how many homes they can get the game into. In the end its allways about money.
The reason Sony is getting less exclusives this console generation has to do with profitability of the 3rd party game makers. It was a no brainer for a 3rd party company to release an exculsive title on the PS2. Its market share was super dominant vs. xbox and nintendo. If a 3rd party developer release and exclusive on the ps2 they had a chance to sell that game to more than 2/3 of the gamin population. Kind of a no brain last generation. As for this generation that console gap no longer exists. Now if Sony wants to keep an exclusive they will probably have to pay a high price for it. Xbox and nintendo both have more units in peoples homes which means more potential to sell games. 3rd party developers are not stupid.
The main reason that Sony had so many exclusive the last generation was the Console Gap. They had many times the consoles out there compared to xbox and nintendo. This generation for a game developer to make money they pretty well have to go multiplatform because no 1 console maker holds a super dominant share of the market like Sony did in last generation. If Sony wants to keep exclusives they are probably going to have to pay out the nose for them this generation because of the lack of household dominance over xbox and nintendo.
I am not a personal fan of sony but in the end they will probably win the console war this generation. They have the most loyal fanbase. But as for buying one now there are not many good games for it yet. I would buy the 360 for now and save for a PS3 for next Christmas when some of their better games are going to come out. Then you get the best of both worlds.
I have spent a couple of hours on the demo and I am impressed. Plays much smoother on my P.O.S. P.C. Also reminds me of many older games with updated graphis though. I dont know how strategic it will be but had tons of un playing it.
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