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Old 05-14-2006, 11:57 PM   #1
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Fair enough, but I want to play it.

It definitely caught my eye, but I'm hoping it's more interesting to play through than Sunshine. It probably will be. Nintendo said good things about it and it seems to be getting positive feedback.
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Re: Sony praises Wii as well
Old 05-15-2006, 10:37 AM   #2
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just in rebuttle to some of the comments made here...

how does Sony go from dominating 66% of the industry to having a tie with Microsoft in 1 generation? That's highly improbable... if you had any sense of business ethics or marketing you'd know for a fact that a strangehold on the market of 50% of more is a tough percentage to beat.

Even if you take price into consideration you've still got more than 100 million PS2 owners who will trade in their PS2's for like $60 towards the purchase of the PS3. The ps3 has the added value of 99.9% backwards compatibility. I've got 3 PS2's sitting here waiting to be traded in for the PS3 and whats more I can still play my PS2 games on it, and have an awesome next-gen console.

Also I keep hearing things about the Virtual Console being a seller for the Wii..... Honestly thats down the drain at this point. With the hackability of the PSP and the interface of the PS3 being the same... and with Linux on the HDD... you can bet that people will be playing more than just NES classics on the PS3... all the other emulators out for Linux..... I kid you not.
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Old 05-15-2006, 02:41 PM   #3
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So you think that illegal hacking of PS3 can compete with the legal Nintendo virtual console?
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Old 05-15-2006, 02:48 PM   #4
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There's one important point you're missing: People are lazy. Sure, emulation is rampant, but most people don't want to go find out how to do all that. Nintendo and Microsoft's services hand it to you on a silver platter.
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Old 05-15-2006, 02:57 PM   #5
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So you think that illegal hacking of PS3 can compete with the legal Nintendo virtual console?
Are you asking if people would rather pay for something or get it for free?
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Old 05-15-2006, 03:33 PM   #6
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I don't see people buying a PS3 because they know they can hack it and play emulated games. Only some geeks will.
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Old 05-15-2006, 03:50 PM   #7
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don't mind me when I saw hacking isn't illegal because Linux is open source ahem..
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Old 05-15-2006, 04:09 PM   #8
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just in rebuttle to some of the comments made here...

how does Sony go from dominating 66% of the industry to having a tie with Microsoft in 1 generation? That's highly improbable... if you had any sense of business ethics or marketing you'd know for a fact that a strangehold on the market of 50% of more is a tough percentage to beat.

Even if you take price into consideration you've still got more than 100 million PS2 owners who will trade in their PS2's for like $60 towards the purchase of the PS3. The ps3 has the added value of 99.9% backwards compatibility. I've got 3 PS2's sitting here waiting to be traded in for the PS3 and whats more I can still play my PS2 games on it, and have an awesome next-gen console.

Also I keep hearing things about the Virtual Console being a seller for the Wii..... Honestly thats down the drain at this point. With the hackability of the PSP and the interface of the PS3 being the same... and with Linux on the HDD... you can bet that people will be playing more than just NES classics on the PS3... all the other emulators out for Linux..... I kid you not.
Well there are several factors that are much different this time around.

1)MS is the first one out the gate. Granted, you could compare it to the DC, but MS has a very solid lead thus far and has delivered some truly great games for people. Along with support from EA.

2)Support from EA by the time PS3 comes out, 360 will have 2 next-gen versions of Madden, I just don't see people waiting if they play and look pretty similar.

3)You've got to be kidding yourself if you believe the people who bought a ps2 will show enough brand loyalty to buy a ps3 for 600 bucks. Granted its not a problem for the first year as the diehards will buy it anyhow.

4)Emulation is not a big selling point for the PSP because most people don't know how to do it. Heck, most people don't know how to do it on their computers. And its not something advertiseable. Since it is illegal. Nintendo and MS can show it off in commercials or magazines and make it easy for people to buy.

5) The Wii. It may be a second console for some and a dominate one for others. But unlike last gen or the gen before it, Nintendo offers a clear alternative.
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Old 05-15-2006, 04:15 PM   #9
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again, are people saying that 360 and Wii will each dominate the PS3 in sales? because thats what it sounds like, only people arent making any concrete predictions...it's real easy to talk if you dont back it up with something that you go out on a limb with
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Old 05-15-2006, 04:38 PM   #10
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again, are people saying that 360 and Wii will each dominate the PS3 in sales? because thats what it sounds like, only people arent making any concrete predictions...it's real easy to talk if you dont back it up with something that you go out on a limb with
I can't speak for the rest of them, but I was just saying you can't expect sony to sell anywhere close to what the ps2 sold.
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Old 05-15-2006, 04:42 PM   #11
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I can't speak for the rest of them, but I was just saying you can't expect sony to sell anywhere close to what the ps2 sold.


...<30 million, then? <40 million?
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Old 05-15-2006, 05:47 PM   #12
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Well see...this time when someone's PS3 breaks are they gonna shell out another $600 like during the PS2 era. That is unless they're made better this time around. A damn popular system but a lot of those sales were from people buying another.
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