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 Member 4960 Level 14.57 Apr 2006 
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I think part of what its going to come down to is whether or not Sony manage to hold onto some of their bigger exclusive titles. Its certainly arguable that most of the gamers who owned a PS2 owned it for the games, rather than the fact that it was published by Sony. The PS2 had a lot of the big name titles, so if you wanted to play the newest Ico, Final Fantasy, Metal Gear, Dragon Quest etc you needed a PS2.
But lately they have been losing a lot of exclusives. Virtua Fighter, Dragon Quest, Assasin's Creed and the 360 is starting to hit its stride. Its becoming a race for Sony to try and stabilise their user base before publishers look at them decide that they are going to be better off making 360 titles and porting them, exactly like the last generation. Konami says that MGS4 is Sony exclusive, but the same thing was said about 2. Then Substance came out and was ported. If Sony can hold onto its major franchises and gain some more 3rd party support, than it should be fine. If the costs of development deter 3rd party devs and say MGS4: Whatever is ported? Its going to hurt them hard. The indie titles that the PS2 had like Okami, Ico and Shadows of the Colossus will most likely go to the Wii due to the very cheap development costs. Right now MGS and Final Fantasy are the major titles that are keeping people interested in the PS3. If it lost either of those or the go multiplatform we're going to see a huge drop in PS3 buyers. Most amazing jew boots |
Member 4960 Level 14.57 Apr 2006
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I was just running through some other articles and came across this:
What it comes down to is profit. At the moment dev costs for the PS3 are very high, though they go down eventually. But a game has to sell a lot of copies to make it worthwhile and if the games have lackluster sales, then the option of moving/porting to a system with a higher attach rate becomes more tempting. There's nowhere I can't reach. |
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