Re: Sony's Stringer: PS3 "Momentum" Same As It Was With PS2

On Nov 23, 11:46 am, The King of Gaming <king.of.gam...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Nov 21, 6:01 pm, Doug Jacobs <djac...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The King of Gaming <king.of.gam...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Wow, you are going to choke on that one in the near future. That's
funny. I just hope Xbots like you and the Doug Jacobs troll are still
around to answer for your stupidity. The RMZ troll already has
disappeared several months before his Sony going out of business
deadline prediction. Amazingly, I think you've managed an even dumber
prediction.

I'm not going anywhere...but why are you lumping me in with his
predictions?

Wow, are you kidding? You have made a zillion doom and gloom posts
for Sony, probably more than anyone. Just go pick one.

More than your former obsession RMZ?

The PS3 stumbled out of the starting gate, and has yet to fully recover.

The PS3 is doing fine, idiot. It's sold better than the Xbox 360 at
the same point in its life, and likely it will have well surpassed it
quite handily through both of their second holidays.

Microsoft sold over 10 million Xbox 360s by the end of 2006. Sony is
currently hovering just past 6 million. Do you really think it will
sell 4 million Playstation 3s worldwide in the next month?

I didn't see you
crying and complaining about the 360s start.

No need to - the Xbox 360 had pretty impressive sales in its first
year.

Even though the PS3 is getting UT3 for the holidays, it's losing Haze
until 2008. Personally, I'd think Haze was the more promising title.
After all, the PS3 needs more exclusives - not "me too" multi-platform
titles. Besides, UT3 is really going to be big on the PC, not the
consoles. Even getting UT3 before the 360 isn't going to do much - if
anything pushing the 360 release of UT3 out was a smart thing to do
especially when holiday shoppers and gamers for the 360 are faced with
Orange Box, Halo3, Mass Effect, not to mention non-exclusives like Guitar
Hero 3 and Rock Band.

In all seriousness, there's nothing in the PS3's library that makes buying
a PS3 a solid slam-dunk when compared to what the 360 and even the Wii are
fielding at this time. Sony has already lost the battle of Christmas
2008. Their strategy now is just do the best they can to minimize the
growing gap between themselves and their competitors. They need the PS3 to be
in the best position possible once the big hits start landing spring 2008.

If they fall TOO far behind the others, then it may not matter how
kick-ass Sony's lineup will be in 2008. It very well could be too little
too late as developers, unable to wait for the PS3 to "take off", will have
to take their games elsewhere, maybe even abandoning the PS3 altogether.

Are you retarded? Why would it be too late? You act like there are
50 million 360s in homes already. The 360 sales have been just as
mediocre as the PS3s (likely because they're both pretty expensive) so
it's not like some insurmountable lead has been built.

The Playstation 3 sell rate would have to at least maintain its
current level right now through next year with the Xbox 360's sell
rate dropping by a lot in order for Sony to catch up. The Xbox 360
install base is currently over twice that of the Playstation 3's.

It's more a matter of the perception by the developers. For whatever
reason the Playstation 3 hasn't sold phenomenally (I know you love to
harp on the difference in price as an excuse), the developers are just
going to see the numbers.

If you were a developer right now and had to choose to develop a game
for just one of those two systems, why would you choose to develop for
the Playstation 3 over the Xbox 360? Unless you have access to some
hard data that PS3 owners are 90% more likely to buy your game due to
its genre than Xbox 360 owners, you're going to go with the platform
that has more supporters and thus more chances of making money.

The 360 has
just been out longer. Additionally, the PS3 has already easily won
Japan and at worst will split Europe so you saying developers will
abandon the PS3 makes you look like an idiot.

The Playstation 3 beating out the Xbox 360 in Japan is hardly a major
blow to Microsoft, who didn't anticipate coming even close to denting
the market there. Japan only makes up about 20% of the global games
market. Even Europe is only about 25-30% of the global games market -
if things are much closer there, that's not a BIG boon to Sony's
fortunes.

The United States is about 45% of the global games market. The
Playstation 3 would have to utterly dominate the Xbox 360 in every
other market just to keep things neck-and-neck. Right now, it's only
dominating in the Japanese arena - it's winning by a much smaller
margin in Europe and Australia.

Black Friday should provide an interesting preview of the holiday season.

Interesting for idiot Xbots like you who worship big corporations,
maybe.

Interesting for anybody looking for great deals on both systems (or
just looking to find a Wii)...
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