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Originally Posted by The Bus

I don't see how PS2 sales are cannibalizing PS3 sales. I don't see anyone that said last year, "Let's see... Spend $599 on a console with no games or $129 on a console with the best library out now, period? Hmmm..."

No more than DVD sales are hurting BD / HD DVD sales... People just aren't convinced on why they need to make the jump.

I feel like this year has been the 360's year for its software library. Between Halo 3, Mass Effect, Bioshock, GHII and GHIII, Blue Dragon, Forza, etc... There were tons of games for everyone (who likes those games).

Sony's "big" games (MGS, GT Prelude Preview etc, Little Big Planet, Home) are coming next year. Same with Nintendo, to an extent.

Sony doesn't seem to be making a big effort with their PS3. They're coming out with another new PS2 console and yet there's very little software for the PS3.

You could compare it to Blu-ray as Sony released a great version of Taxi Driver on DVD but no Blu-ray release.

Sony just seems to be focusing too much on the past even though they have a ton of reasons to focus on the future.

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Originally Posted by PopcornTreeCt

I don't see what makes you think that Sony is making a bigger effort with the PS2 then the PS3. The revised PS2 was probably easy to make, and since the system still sells well, it's a quick way for Sony to get some more people to rebuy the system. Other then that, it's not like the PS2 is still advertised, nor does Sony itself commit their studios to make more games for it. It's 3rd parties that decide to continue to release games.

The PS3 is being pushed heavily by Sony, with lots of advertising, and all sorts of models in order to find one that people find attractive. The effort is there; it's just falling flat due to PR mistakes and plain old crappy software.

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Originally Posted by fumanstan

The PS3 is being pushed heavily by Sony, with lots of advertising, and all sorts of models in order to find one that people are attractive.

I can save them millions in research... it's the one that is under $400 and not gimped.

:D

I wish they listen to their user base. I would give them some simple advice:

1) Make it cheap

2) Don't sandbag it with a lot of crap your userbase may not need.

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Originally Posted by Lastblade

The 360 took some time to get the great games, but once it did, there is no going back.

This is perhaps where I am drawing my conclusions from. I bought the 360 right when it came out and bought 4 or 5 games that were available for it at the time. The games were not a HUGE improvement over my regular xbox games. Yes I have a hi-def TV and all that but I'd play Madden Football on one and then on the other and I really didn't see a whole lot of difference.. Perhaps I should pick up some newer titles and give it another try. At the moment it's boxed up in the closet and I am still enjoying the older xbox titles.

The first Madden on 360 was lampooned for how little was gained going next gen. That's a bad example.

As for launch titles, COD2 looked and sounded amazing, as did Condemned. Then there was Kameo that had sections with hundreds of characters on screen without a hitch. That couldn't be done on the original xbox. Burnout Revenge, 4 months in, looked amazing. Then there was Dead Rising with their astounding amount of zombies on screen at once. Like Kameo, it would be laughable if they tried that on Xbox1.