For Sony, that performance "is simply abysmal" - "PS3 is sucking wind right now"

In alt.games.video.xbox Soupladel <soupladel@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> but to put not too fine a point on it, analysts have long predicted that
> sony will win this round of the war purely on brand power, however they will
> not have the monopoly on the market they enjoyed prior to and during ps2.
> and as a relatively neutral gamer, it means all the better games for us.

Yeah, yeah, but what the analysts don't understand is that the game market
isn't like the home electronics market. People who like Sony and are
shopping for a TV will buy a Sony TV more often. That's brand recognition
and/or loyalty. People wanting to play games, aren't just going to
select the hardware because it's a Sony. They're going to follow the
games. The PS1 and PS2 sold well because they had more good games than
their competitors (and arguably, they never really HAD any real
competition.) Unfortunately even Sony started believing their own hype
and started spewing such stupidity like 'PS3 will sell 5 million even with
no games.' No. No. No. No. It's about the games. It's always been
about the games. Brands and specs don't sell hardware in the video
game industry. GAMES sell hardware.

> more and better competition = better games.

Yes. Unfortunately Sony basically blew it for this generation, and I
suspect it's going to be mighty tough for them to come back next time.

> so if you are lucky enough to have both consoles, you will be spoilt for
> choice.

Only if there are truely enough games for the consoles in question.

With the developer studios complaining how expensive games are getting to
develop, and how they cannot afford to do exclusive titles as much, could
we see a generation where there's virtualy NO differences between the
libraries on each console? At that point, then the video game market
really WOULD begin to look like just another consumer electronic product
where things like cost and branding would be deciding factors.

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