Fanboys, start your engines. A recent Cnet article has predicted that by the time 2012 rolls around, PS3 will be the undisputed champion of the next gen universe. How did they come to this conclusion? A lot of speculation and some liberties were taken in finding this conclusion. They believe that future price drops in the PS3, its built in WiFi, Blu-ray, and more exclusive titles, it will be the console to have. No one predicted the 360 to hit 10 million sales. The above graph shows the PS3 and Wii dominating and the 360 almost flatlining. Just to be safe, I bought all three of ‘em. What do you guys think?
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Write a Comment»I think its BS.
I would agree with their reasons, but I’m not sure about their estimates. Only time will tell. And are that many people still gonna be sold on wii sports? Dear god.
“I think its BS” care to elaborate???
Personally,I think they’re on the money.By then HDTV penetration will be well over 40% in America,and with HDTVs come HD Players.People always want a complete product,everyone wants 1 box that can do it all;The Ps3 is that box.
I won’t be as blunt as to predict the 360 won’t be doing well by then,but I will say this;Microsoft have a big challenge ahead of them,especially since Epic aren’t gonna pass up the chance to expand the Gears of War franchise to more platforms with Gears of War 3 and beyond.And Mass Effect is now under EA,Bioshock has just been confirmed to be no longer a console exclusive,PGR devs are now making multiplat games,etc.
I can agree that the PS3 will be a really good console by 2012 it will no longer be that expensive tank it was when it came out. I was right Sony is really shaping things up :). I don’t know about it’s sales though.
Heres the dilemma …. blue-ray sucks…. yes its great for playing movies and sony took a big chance GIVING that technology away to the PS3 but its what won them the format wars. The only problem being it SUCKS for gaming… slow ass read rate = HUGE installs to get true next gen games to play well. There are games now pushing half hour installs with 5 GB of space needed … im not looking forward to 2 hour installs of 20 gigs by 2012. Pretty much everything other than cinematics needs to be loaded on a PS3 for it to substain decent FPS.
Now with that said MS has an even bigger problem on there hands because they are out of disk space and have YEARS left on the current console cycle. How MS handles that dilema will have dramatic effects on consoles sold by 2012. Heck they might even jump the gun again and but out a new console sooner as from the way i look at it it is there only option and it worked well for the 360. I mean MS was way late in the game on there Xbox ( dreamcsat was out for like 2 years PS2 for one) and they beat sony to next gen by a year ( so they had 2 less year product life on the original Xbox then sony had on PS3) and it worked well they sold alot better than alot of people expected and thats including there retardedly high RRoD rate.
So in short i think MS needs to do something pretty drastic and pretty fast in order to make those numbers not become a reality.
By 2012 there will be new consoles for sure. I am thinking it will be amost about time for a PS5 by then, hehe.
I think Nintendo by far has the upper hand on their next console, look at how much money they can put in it thanks to the Wii, unless possible Wii Fit Lawsuits bankrupts them lol.