MS strategy of placing a cheap console into homes seems to be paying off, but i cant help but feel that this new initiative is at odds with the overall experience that is promised/delivered.
The arcade was simply not built for the new live and marketplace, and by the time you upgrade might as well have purchased a "higher" sku. But that may be the trick, get them in the door cheap. Now i know that the usual response was that upgrades were not mandatory... but from what i understand the new live requires a bit more drive space than the arcade has.
Now to the question at hand, can the new experience drive sales? I dont think so, but the numbers will surely be murky enough to point so... the price drops will gain even more traction in the holidays after the new live is fully up and running.
Heres one thats mandatory
THE NEW LIVE experience or whatever is called is really not all that compatible with the arcade is it... you need more memory... granted the solution may prove to be sufficient.
Yes i think MS will beat Sony this generation... gasp, but im ok with a feature rich 3rd place.
On slightly unrelated news it will be bitter-sweet to the the xbox go bluray (a win for Sony a loss for PS3)
The answer is yes console dominance is nothing ... nothing, compared to media format dominance, the blu-ray consortium gets royalties for the technology (sony being a big recipient) and no if ands or butts about it the PS3 won them the hi-def war. Inadvertently it may have lost them the console war.
Sure Sony wants both but if they had to pick (and apparently they did) they would pick consumer electronics rather than "niche" gaming.
and no dont tell me Streaming and Downloads are gonna kill bluray, people like discs, people like boxes... you dont gift downloads... you wrap that Lost season 3 snuggly.
I will humbly grant you all of that... it was supposed to do gazillions... i will qualify that statement with the fumbled launch though... there was a lot of confusion as to when the REAL date was. Would it have done 2 million in 3 days? now way , even a million would have been a bullish prediction, but the numbers would have been a heck of a lot better (this being pure conjecture on my part)
Lets remember that GoW2 is a perfectly good sequel of a perfectly good franchise thats aimed to the core Xbox user, while LBP is new off beat IP.
Now lets throw in the server issues and i can see a lot of used copies of LBP coming into the market cannabalizing sales figures... and still i think it cracks top 10
and despite disappointing numbers i think its also a favorite for GotY.
But i think im honest after all(And yes i may get my SONY fanboy membership revoked) it does not look good at all for PS3 and its fanbase... not good at all.
I will humbly grant you all of that... it was supposed to do gazillions... i will qualify that statement with the fumbled launch though... there was a lot of confusion as to when the REAL date was. Would it have done 2 million in 3 days? now way , even a million would have been a bullish prediction, but the numbers would have been a heck of a lot better (this being pure conjecture on my part)
Lets remember that GoW2 is a perfectly good sequel of a perfectly good franchise thats aimed to the core Xbox user, while LBP is new off beat IP.
Now lets throw in the server issues and i can see a lot of used copies of LBP coming into the market cannabalizing sales figures... and still i think it cracks top 10
and despite disappointing numbers i think its also a favorite for GotY.
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MS strategy of placing a cheap console into homes seems to be paying off, but i cant help but feel that this new initiative is at odds with the overall experience that is promised/delivered.
The arcade was simply not built for the new live and marketplace, and by the time you upgrade might as well have purchased a "higher" sku. But that may be the trick, get them in the door cheap. Now i know that the usual response was that upgrades were not mandatory... but from what i understand the new live requires a bit more drive space than the arcade has.
Now to the question at hand, can the new experience drive sales? I dont think so, but the numbers will surely be murky enough to point so... the price drops will gain even more traction in the holidays after the new live is fully up and running.
Heres one thats mandatory
THE NEW LIVE experience or whatever is called is really not all that compatible with the arcade is it... you need more memory... granted the solution may prove to be sufficient.
Yes i think MS will beat Sony this generation... gasp, but im ok with a feature rich 3rd place.
On slightly unrelated news it will be bitter-sweet to the the xbox go bluray (a win for Sony a loss for PS3)
The answer is yes console dominance is nothing ... nothing, compared to media format dominance, the blu-ray consortium gets royalties for the technology (sony being a big recipient) and no if ands or butts about it the PS3 won them the hi-def war. Inadvertently it may have lost them the console war.
Sure Sony wants both but if they had to pick (and apparently they did) they would pick consumer electronics rather than "niche" gaming.
and no dont tell me Streaming and Downloads are gonna kill bluray, people like discs, people like boxes... you dont gift downloads... you wrap that Lost season 3 snuggly.
I will humbly grant you all of that... it was supposed to do gazillions... i will qualify that statement with the fumbled launch though... there was a lot of confusion as to when the REAL date was. Would it have done 2 million in 3 days? now way , even a million would have been a bullish prediction, but the numbers would have been a heck of a lot better (this being pure conjecture on my part)
Lets remember that GoW2 is a perfectly good sequel of a perfectly good franchise thats aimed to the core Xbox user, while LBP is new off beat IP.
Now lets throw in the server issues and i can see a lot of used copies of LBP coming into the market cannabalizing sales figures... and still i think it cracks top 10
and despite disappointing numbers i think its also a favorite for GotY.
But i think im honest after all(And yes i may get my SONY fanboy membership revoked) it does not look good at all for PS3 and its fanbase... not good at all.
I will humbly grant you all of that... it was supposed to do gazillions... i will qualify that statement with the fumbled launch though... there was a lot of confusion as to when the REAL date was. Would it have done 2 million in 3 days? now way , even a million would have been a bullish prediction, but the numbers would have been a heck of a lot better (this being pure conjecture on my part)
Lets remember that GoW2 is a perfectly good sequel of a perfectly good franchise thats aimed to the core Xbox user, while LBP is new off beat IP.
Now lets throw in the server issues and i can see a lot of used copies of LBP coming into the market cannabalizing sales figures... and still i think it cracks top 10
and despite disappointing numbers i think its also a favorite for GotY.
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