@chill21genlee, if they can get people to think the ps3 is the machine to desire (and I read it scored high in men magazine) I think surprising things could happen given that exclusives are going to be quite big next year. It's hard to imagine many gamers missing out on god of war 3 for example and other such sony productions available only on their system, unlike xbox360->pc. But more importantly than that I would expect sony holding on to ps3 for much longer, not necessarely because of customer fidelity as many might assume but because it could make sense for them: they invested a lot into the research of different hardware and packed it with bluray which it didn't really need now. Seeing how that was a miss up to now because of customers not willing to pay higher than a certain price no matter the "value" it makes sense to hang on to the system longer: even though competitors will have newer machines they could get away with it seeing how historically often the cheapest/least features machine won out. I'm not saying this will be the case for sure. I'm not a sony fanboy no matter what, even though i love my ps2 experience, all I'm saying is that this makes business sense to me. You don't go inventing a new hardware platform that everybody complains is hard to program and forcing "future proof" bluray that people don't want because of price just to suddenly drop them. So my stab at guesstimating the future is that we may have to ajdust the whole "hardware generation" concept a bit: I'd guess (if they can calm the shareholders not to panic.. if that's how it works?)they'll stick it out through thick and thin until ps3 becomes the new low-end platform. And i think that is actually do-able, not only because of the arguably powerful-buthard-to-use hardware and bluray but also because more and more services can be moved to online oriented experiences where the console is more like a terminal. This also might be backed up by their interest in MMOs which make increasing sense only on a widespread long lived system.
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if they can get people to think the ps3 is the machine to desire (and I read it scored high in men magazine) I think surprising things could happen given that exclusives are going to be quite big next year. It's hard to imagine many gamers missing out on god of war 3 for example and other such sony productions available only on their system, unlike xbox360->pc.
But more importantly than that I would expect sony holding on to ps3 for much longer, not necessarely because of customer fidelity as many might assume but because it could make sense for them: they invested a lot into the research of different hardware and packed it with bluray which it didn't really need now. Seeing how that was a miss up to now because of customers not willing to pay higher than a certain price no matter the "value" it makes sense to hang on to the system longer: even though competitors will have newer machines they could get away with it seeing how historically often the cheapest/least features machine won out. I'm not saying this will be the case for sure. I'm not a sony fanboy no matter what, even though i love my ps2 experience, all I'm saying is that this makes business sense to me. You don't go inventing a new hardware platform that everybody complains is hard to program and forcing "future proof" bluray that people don't want because of price just to suddenly drop them. So my stab at guesstimating the future is that we may have to ajdust the whole "hardware generation" concept a bit: I'd guess (if they can calm the shareholders not to panic.. if that's how it works?)they'll stick it out through thick and thin until ps3 becomes the new low-end platform. And i think that is actually do-able, not only because of the arguably powerful-buthard-to-use hardware and bluray but also because more and more services can be moved to online oriented experiences where the console is more like a terminal. This also might be backed up by their interest in MMOs which make increasing sense only on a widespread long lived system.