Sony to lose 1billion on ps3 and 20% of market share

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Old but new:gman:

[GmanJoe]

I was gonna post this....you....bas-Tard. Keep stealing muh thunder.

[Living-In-Clip]

Nothing lasts forever and Sony won\'t have a stonghold on the market forever. It\'s a slow but gradual process.

oh noes, analysts and random people on the intarweb say sony and PS3 are doomed!!!!1

Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
Nothing lasts forever and Sony won\'t have a stonghold on the market forever. It\'s a slow but gradual process.

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assumptions made about marketing trends and technology always end up biting someone in the ass.

tell that to microsoft VP of xbox sales in japan

i mean the former VP

Juslight, you\'re right.  A great number of analysts predicted Microsoft would exit the console business within two years of the Xbox launch.  Here we are on the eve of the Xbox successor and things are looking pretty good.

Someone would have to be pretty naive to think that Sony could be an exception to trend of what goes up must eventually come down.  I don\'t expect that Sony will fail by any means, but I do think their days reigning as an unequaled force in the industry are coming to a close.

[Paul2]

^^^

Somehow I disagree.  I think XBOX360 will do a good job in the market, but PS3 still dominates.  Who know if ps3 will dominate the video game industry as big as ps2 did, but i believe ps3 will dominate either way.

Originally posted by Paul2
^^^

Somehow I disagree.  I think XBOX360 will do a good job in the market, but PS3 still dominates.  Who know if ps3 will dominate the video game industry as big as ps2 did, but i believe ps3 will dominate either way.

You\'re disagreeing with something I didn\'t say.  What I suggested is that Sony won\'t dominate by such a large margin.

I also didn\'t say that it would be Microsoft alone that took the market share from Sony.

[Paul2]

hmm...it sounds like you said that on your previous post that you meant XBOX360 will have an equal share of Sony PS3 which I doubt it.

In any case, that\'s not how I meant it.  I\'ll reiterate by saying that I believe this next generation will be on much more even ground than it has been before.

There will be a victor, and I believe it will be PS3.  I just don\'t think they\'ll manage to take 70%+ of the market like before.

What we\'re seeing is that the Japanese devs are kind of lagging behind in terms of technical gamedevelopment. They need an
\'easy to code for\' platform to do a viable game project.

So, i think we\'ll see atleast a marginal shift of Japanese devs towards Xbox360.

But i don\'t think it\'ll punch Sony\'s marketshare alot either. Nintendo\'s Revolution is rumoured to be priced ALOT lower than both Xb0x360 and PS3 so Nintendo might be the one to gain some substantial marketshare.

don\'t kid yourselves

PS3 will dominate xbox 2

Originally posted by Knotter8
What we\'re seeing is that the Japanese devs are kind of lagging behind in terms of technical gamedevelopment. They need an
\'easy to code for\' platform to do a viable game project.

So, i think we\'ll see atleast a marginal shift of Japanese devs towards Xbox360.

But i don\'t think it\'ll punch Sony\'s marketshare alot either. Nintendo\'s Revolution is rumoured to be priced ALOT lower than both Xb0x360 and PS3 so Nintendo might be the one to gain some substantial marketshare.

What it seems like to me, PS3\'s architecture (from what ive heard at least) is a lot easier to develop on than the ps2. You dont have to deal with programming for the two different vector units and such. I forgot why, but it also seems that its going to give PC developers a much easier time as well (evidence- unreal).

I just dont think that ease of development is going to keep japanese devs from the ps3.