PS3: Sony’s Last Console and Xbox 360 Blamed
Filed under: Gaming, Sony Playstation 3 | By: Daniel
Posted on: October 25, 2008 | 29 Comments
While many gamers would agree that the next model of Xbox is needed before the Sony PS4, I am sure hardly anyone would think that the Sony PS3 should be the last games system from Sony.
This is what Blend Games thinks may be possible, in an article titled “PS3 Could Be Sony’s Last Console”, they said that the “PS3 has been a financial pain in Sony’s side”.
Now we would agree that Sony has lost money so far on the Playstation 3 thanks to going with Blu-ray built-in, but to say that it would be Sony’s last console seems a bit far-fetched.
While Sony’s profits may drop sharply thanks to many factors including recession, it’s a BIG statement to think they would never launch another games system after such a big take-up of the PS3 and PS2. Plus there are so many fans that would buy a Sony system over a Microsoft one any day, Microsoft may be good at software but it shows how weak they have been with hardware (RROD anyone).
The Xbox 360 has hit a figure that will allow many more people to buy it come Christmas, this will help Microsoft outsell the PS3 unless Sony make another price cut. Hit the read link below to read Blend Games full story, and let us know below in the comments what you think.
The consumer needs the future Xbox and Playstation, with both systems in the marketplace we get more competition and this again will benefit the consumer. No more Sony games systems…now that’s laughable.
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Doesnt everyone understand that people, like our friend “ps3 owner” don’t really think “outside the box.” Fanboys will be just that, and personally, I HAD a 60 gig ps3 at one time and well, it LACKED. The funny thing is, I love the OS in the ps3 way over the xbox blades, and the blu-ray was a nice addition, but when it came to the games I wanted to play, Sony just didnt have them at all.
Resistance and in my opinion, Ridge racer 7 along with folklore were the only REALLY good titles at the time. But now there are titles like: Saints Row 2, Bioshock(which I think was a blast to sony, since it came out over a year ago for the xbox360, but with DLC that has NOTHING to do with the storymode on the ps3), and Dead space.
All these new games ive had on my 360 and had no wanting or craving to get them on a ps3. Oh, and if you want to talk about “copying what others do” in the game industry, atleast get it right.
Buzz is and has been a really, REALLY low budget game, that has sold a few 360’s, not ps3’s. Lips is better, no FAR better then singstar, for a few good reasons. ONE: You can sing along to ANY song in your OWN library, not just set songs on a disk. Have something on your ipod or Zune? plug it into the 360 and sing along to it. Farcry from singstar.
Hmmm, the Eyetoy eh? It got MORE play out of the ps2 then the ps3 so far. Off the top of my head, I can count over 5 games on xbox arcade that use the vision camra, over the eyetoys 2 games on the ps3.
Furthermore, think of the Avatars as an “evolved” version of the “mii’s.” Last time I checked, you could not ADD a gamer picture to a Nintendo “mii” and make that gamer pic the avatars shirt, now can you? Or how about winning achivements on Xbox Live, and also winning new styles of clothing to add to your avatar?
Besides, Nintendo Mii’s are like SD(super deformed) characters, and the Avatars on the new MS dashboard are NOT SD characters, but more of a “picture of who you are all together as a gamer and a person. And the NXB I won’t even start on, because the XMB is completly different. End of story.
Also , if you are good enough to acutally read and do some research( mainly follow links) you can see that The head of Sony was praising that the Xbox360 did better this year then their own ps3. A ploy? maybe, but it doesnt rule out the fact Sony wants MS to win this year for sales.
And the way the economy has been recenlly, if I were Sony, id be scared. honestly. Rumors fly, like always and ofcourse MS is supposedly releasing a slimmer 360 next year, with a better chipset and almost non-noise making fan, while the new xbox is underway.
The ps3 is still a good envistment though, with its blu-ray player still being 200, if you think that 400 is the full price of the full system.(200 for the game system, and 200 for the blu-ray player) That is untill MS acutally announces its blu0ray for 150 bucks, which has been confirmed by Toshiba and Samsung, since their merger recently, despite MS’s hardcore: ” we don’t want or need a blu-ray player” talk.
Hey guys, did you see Sony’s financial forecast for this financial year. Did you see Microsoft’s results?
Sonys proft prediction down from 2.4 billion 1.5 billion dollars (2009 March Ending Financial year)
Microsoft made a 4.3 dollar profit for the last quarter (Yes, just a quarter).
Sony are unlikely to drop the PS3 or PS4. The brand is too strong. The PSP is selling well over here in Japan.
The bottom line is the shareholders, the market etc… will determine if there will be a PS4 or a Xbox 720.
oh and im 30 btw
Kman, I’m not here to defend a console. I typically don’t post when I read this type of news. I posted because I am fed up with stereotypes which goes far beyond console ownership. This whole, my system is better than yours B.S. is dumb to me honestly. I have people ask me all of the time what they should get and I tell them to buy what they like, plain and simple. If you go by who has sold more, the Wii is trouncing both MS and Sony, but when it comes down to specs the console is a joke in comparision. Wii owners on the other hand don’t care! It’s a great console and just fun even without being competetive with the others. it’s a waste of time to argue about something like this article. If Sony does produce a PS4, I’m all for it because that forces Microsoft and anyone else that wants to get into the race to compete and that just makes a better experience for all of us. If they don’t produce one, I hope they team with Nintendo to put out something big time. I don’t want a Playstation, but, I can respect what they’ve done for gaming and don’t want to see that stop. Either way, it’s not going to hurt my feelings.
Sony won’t stop making consoles as they are too big a brand… they could potentially dominate the market if they wanted to, they just need to make a better console… same with the XBox 360… They’re too similar to compete.
I bet the Sega guys are laughing their b*llocks off at the thought that Playstation has ended up wrecking Sony.
Poetic justice.
“Sony won’t stop making consoles as they are too big a brand… they could potentially dominate the market if they wanted to, they just need to make a better console.. same with the xbox 360…”
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Look, the SAME could be said about SEGA’s older consoles, the saturn and espically the Dreamcast. The dream cast was always way a head of its time for processeing power, but they (SEGA of America) didnt market right over here and boom, a dead awesome system.
The ps3 and 360 are really good consoles. But they arn’t good consoles to PC and MAC gamers though. Think about it really. If you own a top PC or MAC, sure those will own the current systems, but there is still a lot to take into consideration as well.
The ps3 has many cores to program for, and it didn’t help that SONY kept all the coding IN JAPANESE for the American programmers to deal with. This makes it 3 times as hard, unless you know fluent Japanese/coding.
I would’ve stuck to my orginal 60 gig model if I would’ve known that devs couldve worked with no problem on the system without hiring like 12 translators to get all the coding into English just to produce one single game for a power-house system.
Sony has kicked themselfs in the teeth this year and since the PS3 came out.
First off is the coding/translation stuff.
Secondly is the backwards compatable ps3’s being yanked off the shelf’s. Too many people are still looking to play their old ps2 titles on the ps3 system
Third:the PS2 is STILL going strong here in the USA.
I know this because I work at a GameStop. I see it all the time. Parents wanting to get a cheap game for their kid and then heading over to the ps2 section and picking up a game or two, instead of getting one for their dad’s ps3, with better everything.
The people that own a ps3, still buy more ps2 games as well.
I find this funny because if Sony would’ve WAITED on realeasing the ps3 till this november, WITH backwards compatiblity and the price tag it has now, AND translated all the coding for the major game devs over here to make it 100 percent more accesable to develop games on, it wouldve beat out MS no problem.
A lot of the time people and fanboys/girls want a system released to combat a new game for the current system that is out. The thing to do though is release it AFTER a hit game comes out for a rival system to release your system, and by that time it comes out, you already have a handful of game devs for it, all the coding is worked out and so forth.
Then that is the time to let everyone know your system rocks socks.
M$’s issues have always been with software. Heck, look at windows and the Zune software. But as always, first come first serve software(and hardware in M$’s instance) has been trial and error. But honestly don’t blame M$ for it. Its standard that anything first gen will have it’s issues. Need I say more Apple?
Every company that puts out a new console will have issues. Overheating, freezing of games, etc. UNLESS they test run them way before a public release. Then they could have time to fix everything before loosing millions of dollars and having law suits aginst them all the time.
Most of the companies don’t go this route though. Sure the prototypes are there like M$’s huge silver xbox system back in the day of the orginal xbox, and the many prototypes for the ps3(remember the boomerang controller?) but it’s usally at production lines where it all comes together..no pun intended.
Fact still remains. no matter what system is put out, it will always have issues. Espically the first models of the systems/hardware/software. Also, have you noticed why “hackers/modders are shun by huge corps? Its because the corps realize that their stuff can be fine tuned and fixed for better, and they see this happening and don’t like it because they dont get credit for it. lol
Its only wrong if they didnt think of it first. lol
@ Dave:
I agree. lol I never liked SEGA of America. SEGA of Japan was ALWAYS where everything was. SOA made poor choices, like when they put Working Designs (famed translation and group that made Lunar The Silver Star) in the very back of an E3 show while the Sega Saturn was starting to take off in the USA.
Then Working Designs saw that Japanese developer, Game Arts, the main group that made Lunar, and many other RPGs for the SEGA systems, turn to Sony, and then…BAM…Sega lost a good chunk of 3td party support.
They (being SEGA of America) said: “Gamers don’t want RPG’s from Japan. They want action games like doom.” quoted by SOA’s marketing group eons ago. I still may have that website. saved. lol Peter Moore was, I believe one of the very few that wanted import over here while he worked with SOA, he truly believed in gamers on both sides of the world, and had many plans on making them come together for online play.
Too bad he “quit ” MS. =p
Meh it’s the games.The 360 and even the original xbox put out a ton of high quality games.Even Nintendos rep is built on games(why are they dropping the ball on the dust collecter,i mean wii).Granted MS does some screwy stuff with storage,streaming limitations,etc.And the 360 has had hardware probs……
There are som many great xbox titles i can’t remeber them all.Sony has many more games total(counting ps1-2) but 98% of them are garbage.
“Third:the PS2 is STILL going strong here in the USA.
I know this because I work at a GameStop. I see it all the time. Parents wanting to get a cheap game for their kid and then heading over to the ps2 section and picking up a game or two, instead of getting one for their dad’s ps3, with better everything.”
No titles,high prices what do you expect.i’ve never seen a gamestop or any other game store that had a bigger ps-2 or 3 section than the 360 section.
Most game store people tell me it’s the 360 games that move.