In the realms of the scaredy Sony Corp, they are considering copying the idea of the DS and making it seem better by adding nifty stuff from the Wii into their their new system. Questions is whether or not it is for a handheld system or home console.
Truth be blunt, Sony have always been famous for making very powerful system and lasting a good long while but due to the problem of timing in terms of the creation of titles for their new systems, this has created huge problems for the company, hence the price jump to catch up with game profits. (I swear, if the console makers don't fix up their act on prices to Australia, I'm going to start importing titles from China or where ever as I'm getting sick of paying rip off prices, pirated or not pirated, I don't care anymore.)
Why the sudden change in structure? I mean hey, it is famous as being a big fat bully in terms of its power but somehow the skinny kid of the block becomes so popular with the in crowd that the big fat bully is no longer so popular and then wants the attention which the skinny kid of the block is gaining. So what does it do? Tries to copy the popular traits of the skinny kid and then tries to make a better image of itself, then bullies the skinny kid of the block into submission about the fact that it will always be #1 and that it is useless.
It is true that the console is a 3 horse race, but Mircosoft is playing a different card game and doesn't actually care about the fight with Sony as much as their focus is actually good quality titles (oddly, it is actually a strategy from the Nintendo book... OMFG! O.O) with some quality franchises such as Halo, Gears of War, etc.
What is actually puzzling me is the fact that Sony is trying to be popular by copying stuff from popular people and even deems the frat boys to be a senseless bunch of idiots, that they choose to ignore them due to the fact that they think themselves as being 100% superior, smarter, faster, stronger and better looking. Due one main fact is still missing, that alluring charm which makes the frat a frat, it is something that's actually interesting and catches peoples attention.
So now what? Where is Sony going now? Trying to be everything which it isn't and makes it something of almost a viable cause? What I'm currently seeing from Sony is a lost cause in pursuits to become the overall most popular system which everyone should own, eg. a Blu Ray Player (News Flash, DILLIGAF!) with Sixaxis controls. Sixaxis failed because there wasn't even a game which actually bothered to integrate the ability properly with the game, hence the major flop. Since I have no longer have any interest in pursuing the production of the game, I might as well spill it here exclusively.
Plans for a racing game with the Sixaxis controller acting like a steering wheel with the R2 button acting like an accelerator and R1 as brake. The Gear shifters can be either the L2 & L1 or the two of the four buttons on top of the controller. Handbrake can either be a button, or a sharp pullback on the controller. This will allow players to play interesting drifting circuits, Speed races, whatever. So long as it give the players a lot more control and freedom within the game and actually got them to move, then boom, instant + 6 / 10 for interesting idea and concept that people should actually play to experience.
After the production of that game, I suspect maybe a flying game would come next, but if the Sixaxis isn't able to cope with that sorta movements and demands, then it should of never of been with the controller in the first place.
Sony should focus about themselves if it sells than trying to bully those which are deemed the weak kids of the arena. If Sony wants to become a truly popular system, then maybe the focus in making it very powerful should be continued to be pursued since it has always been the sole intention of their last 2 systems. Blu Ray, I never saw a need for it unless a game really took up 25-75 Gigs, but I'm still not touching it until I see a need for the jump.
Do something good, you'll be blasted for it sooner or later. Do something bad, you might get away with it. Proves that the rules to life are usually flawed.