Originally posted by: BD2003
Originally posted by: Dyloot
Originally posted by: BD2003
Originally posted by: Dyloot
The PS3 will sell sell sell once the price drops and it has a few titles that the non-hardcore gaming community actually want to play. As for PS2 sales, I bought one in November for FF12, and am pretty stoked to have God of War 2. The quality of games on the PS2 platform in the last 12 months is amazing.
I doubt that. Wii already owns that market and thats not going change. They already have far too much momentum in that segment for the other two to have any hope of breaking through to that maket. Any developer silly enough to make non-hardcore games for a "hardcore" system has lost their mind. Ex. Viva pinata was a great, non hardcore game, and it sold like sh*t, because it really belonged on the Wii in the first place.
Non-hardcore gamers would buy a PS2 because it was well priced, and had some interesting games. PS3 isnt well priced, and by the time it may ever be, it will be far too late to capture that market, because if they cared, theyd already have a Wii, and I doubt theyre buying two systems.
Maybe I used the wrong term. When I said "non-hardcore gamer", I meant people like myself, a 29-year-old guy who likes gaming but isn't really worried about buying a system for $600 the day it comes out. I will one day own a PS3, probably when it drops in price and there's a game out with incredible reviews that I can't resist buying (see: FF13). I'll probably buy a Wii at some point as well, and perhaps even an XBox 360 if a developer comes along and give me something as good as KOTOR was when I bought my Xbox.
I'm not saying that the PS3 will be the best system in the long run, but I do believe it will sell lots once better games are released and if it drops in price.
Well, time will tell. I doubt that a price drop will sell any more systems if the exclusive games don't exist to back it up. The problem with exclusive games is that publishers are only going to accept exclusivity if it benefits them, and with Sony's small userbase compared to 360s, exclusivity to the PS3 isnt exactly the best option right now.
Its a chicken and egg thing, without the exclusives, systems wont sell, without systems sold, exclusives won't be made. It's a real crap position for Sony to be stuck in, and is frankly, entirely their own doing - without blu-ray jacking up the cost, they'd be in a MUCH better position than they are now, crap games notwithstanding.
Well, yeah, if Sony doesn't keep the exclusive titles (FF and GoW in my case) I may go with the cheaper system when the time comes. In the end, don't most of us end up owning both the PS and the Xbox anyway?
