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By Derek Boiko-Weyrauch Feb 2, 2007, 20:38 GMT
Playstation 2 surpasses Playstation 3 in weekly sales
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I'm always amazed by the rhetoric about the PS3. I finally was able to get my hands on one yesterday at my local Gamestop! Absolutely amazing system!
But these articles and silly talk about Wii and PS2 outselling the PS3 I find a little amusing. And also a little annoying, since a lot of them are designed to deliberately mis-lead the public in general.
The PS2 was/is a great system. One of the best systems ever introduced. The price is dirt cheap by now, since it has been around a long time. There are great games available for it, and if you don't have HDTV, and all you can afford is a PS2, you can still buy a decent gaming system.
The same with the Wii. It's a system that is easily affordable, hence it sells strongly and it also has some happy fun family type games to play. People that love Super Mario and Legend of Zelda, (I was always a fan) will buy that system. Cheaper than the 360 and the PS3.
Those two systems are for the serious gamers, and the ones who can afford higher quality gaming systems.
They are also forward based.
I own both the 360 and the PS3 and love them both. I may even buy the Wii at some point if I have a few extra bucks. But for me, the decision to buy the PS3 and the 360 was made because I want high quality games, and know the better ones will be written for those systems over the coming years.
More and more households are going to HDTV's and the Wii and yes, even the good old reliable PS2 will see less and less action as time goes by.
Its a credit more to the PS2's (and Sony's) great success with the old reliable PS2 that it still sells so well, rather than some dark omen for the PS3, as some nit wits continue to think.
The fact that the PS3 and the 360 are selling and selling well (even at the higher price tag) means people are accepting the systems. 1.5 million PS3's sold and counting is not a failure rate for the PS3. And the 360, having a head start is still well ahead of that.
It should come as no surprise that the Wii and the PS2 sell more units than the 360 and PS3, when they are so cheap, almost anyone can afford to buy one without breaking the bank or thinking too hard.
Anyone who thinks the 360 and the PS3 are going to fail is a complete idiot.
Both systems are doing well.
The better game makers are writing code for those systems hard, knowing it is where the future and money are at. They can do so much more with those sytems graphics wise.
Mario and Zelda look fine to owners of standard Def TV's, but standard def TV's are going the way of the horse-drawn buggy.
Oh, you still see horse-drawn buggies riding around, don't get me wrong, PA is one state you see a lot of them in, in Amish country!
And standard Def TV's are around still also.
Of course, in the next few years, as the FCC in the USA begins to enforce regulations turning off the old over the air NTSC broadcast and exclusively broadcasting the new ATSC standard, those standard def TV's will begin to make nice paperweights. (you may want to read up on just what is going to be happening with the move to HDTV in the next few years, they are turning the lights out on the old standard, and it is Federally mandated...)
Once the HDTV's are common-place, watching and playing old-school game systems is going to be a lot less appealing.
And at that point, you better hope they have reduced the price of a PS3 or a 360, cause the Wii fans will be feeling a little left out!
The wii may well be a nice niche place machine, something to pick up as a side system when I am bored and want to try something different.
But for serious gaming? Serious graphics?
No thanks! I'll stick with my PS3 and my 360! Those systems Rock!
I own the 360 and the wii and the simple reason why I bought thies tow, they costing alsmot the same toogather as a single PS3.
May be one day I will buy a ps3, but for now, I thing I rather save my money for a real good Hd-Tv, so i can eaven enhjoy my 360 eaven more, after taht we will see how mutch the ps3 will cost.
I didn't make it through all the replies here, so I'm sorry if this has been said.
Did Sony not realize that you can acually buy BOTH the Wii & 360 for less than the PS3?! Even if you get the premium bundled 360 it comes to $650- and for an extra $50- I would go for a Wii/360 every single time...
Sony should lower the PS3 price substantially.
The PS3 is a solid system with killer graphics. Its sole downfall is its price. People think Sony is going to lower this price, but I can promise you that's not happening any time soon. They are LOSING a significant amount of money on every console sold, so even a minor decrease in costs isn't going to push the price downwards. If it does happen, it would be an act of desparation, which is probably unnecessary at this point because even a worst-case scenario 3rd place for Sony would leave them making money off of $60 games. Additionally, the 360 and Wii will ALWAYS cost less than the PS3 to produce, so any price decrease by Sony can/will be met with a similar decrease by Nintendo/Microsoft. Meanwhile, the benefits of the PS3 over the 360 are only noticeable if you're a hardcore gamer or Bluray afficianado, and the Wii is in a different category altogether in both its gameplay and the fact that Nintendo actually profits off of every sale.
What does this mean? Gamers who don't care whether or not they have 1080p(which of course also costs an additional $30-$50 for an HDMI cable), are not going to pay the extra $200 for a PS3 when the 360 is sitting right next to it on the shelf. Sony hasn't done a very good job of marketing the PS3(its advertisements try to 'show' its graphical advantage, forgetting the fact that the vast majority of Americans don't own an HDTV and, as a result, cannot differentiate among high-def graphic formats on their TVs), and nearly all of the press it receives is negative(in reference to lackluster sales and its failed attempt to pass off a Bluray drive, a rip-off of Nintendo's controller, and a faster processor as 'innovation') while the Wii is reaching cultural phenomenon status and the 360 is reaping the benefits of an ever-expanding XBox Live service.
Wii's killer app is its innovative/different gameplay. XBox 360's killer app is the popular XBox Live service. The PS3 brings 1080p and Bluray to the table, and is aided by the runaway popularity of the PS2. If Bluray wins the format war, it will be a big boost. However, the recent unveiling of Bluray/HD-DVD combo drives does not bode well for Sony. If the advent of the combo drive allows both formats to survive, and half of the movies coming out are in HD-DVD format, then having a Bluray player in your video game console isn't going to be much of a perk after all. If HD-DVD wins out, we'll see the mention of Bluray gradually slip out of Sony's advertisements. Many analysts have predicted a long-term victory for Sony. Of course, with Sony also taking far greater losses per unit sold, and Microsoft boasting runaway subscription numbers for XBox live, you have to wonder whether Sony can actually be considered a 'winner' if it sells a few million more units that Nintendo or Microsoft. Even the best-case scenario predictions leave the PS3's market share in the shadow of its predecessor's.
Of course, none of this can refute the ever-solid arguments of PS3 fanboys who infer that Microsoft will never be able to reproduce the PS3's technology(maybe they think Microsoft can't afford it?) or that the Wii will go away because video games were invented so that people could sit on their butts(last I checked, video games exist to entertain, chairs exist so you can sit on your butt).
Lastly, I have to ask, why do people get so emotional over video game consoles? If you spent $600 on a PS3, why don't you go spend some time playing with it to recoup that investment, rather than defending your decision to a bunch of people you don't know.
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