PS3 Launches in Europe!

[A Black Falcon]

The PS3 launch is the *third* video. You know, the one with almost no one there. :D

Whether it's the first version or the second, it balances out overall in sales. This petition is irrelevent anyway. The number of people boycotting this (idiots, all of them) are vastly outnumbered by 360 owners who will buy the game.

Matters eh? Well this whole confidence mentallity is irrelevent. They just need to understand that it doesn't hurt them at all and helps others get to the product who might otherwise not be able to. That's net benefit. Indeed, all exclusivity deals seem to be breaking down because 3rd parties everywhere are starting to realize it is not in their best interest to make these deals to begin with, and for the life of me I just can't seem to consider that a bad thing for anyone except the first parties.

DJ, seriously... so everyone should just say "I don't care which consoles win, let all the games go to all the platforms, whatever"? That, I'd say, goes against human nature. Once a person makes a buying decision -- like buying a PlayStation product over an Xbox product -- that person identifies with that choice and rationalizes why it was a good choice, and starts wanting 'their' product to win. It's natural, just like rooting for your local sports team (... not that you'd understand that, but ... well anyway...). Seriously...

You are right that the number of people protesting are far fewer than the number of people who will buy it for X360, though, almost certainly. That's why Capcom is doing this, after all...

Anyway though, back to the point. I think it DOES matter to them what Capcom does -- once you start supporting the other platforms more seriously, isn't there a chance that some games that if the games start selling better there than on your system, the company might make some games exclusive to that OTHER platform, or might start making games first for that system with yours getting the inferior ports? And if that happens, unless you've got the money to buy all the systems and like them equally, you're going to be unhappy... so yes, it does matter.

For instance, games for the PS2 and Wii. Wii owners are getting the game, but with motion controls! Why complain about the not-so-great graphics? ... yeah, exclusives are better. It does seem that this gen third-party exclusives are getting a lot harder to find, though... we'll see where things go. If the Wii wins Japan as decisively as it seems to be winning so far, things might change... remember, in Japan, unlike in the US, there has always been one platform that wins the generation decisively, while all of the others follow far behind. Sometimes there is an opening for a while, like the PC Engine in the gap years while the Famicom faded but before the SFC was released, but once the leader catches on, it's always been a one-system race on the top... the US is different of course, with the SNES-Genesis race as the best example of that but also with a closer race between the N64 and PSX than there was in Japan, etc, but still, in every region, whichever console wins gets the games... and since you can't port Wii games easily (tech-wise) anywhere other than maybe the GC, PS2, and PSP, and the GC is dead, the PS2 won't last forever, and the PSP ... is not a success...

Anyway, that's completely irrelevant to this discussion... my point is, exclusives do matter, and losing exclusives matters too. It matters to the fans, mentally ('they should just get over it' isn't going to just solve things), but it also matters as a sign of the company's support for the platform... that they don't trust it as much anymore, and might reduce their support in the future. But really... can't you admit that the idea of thinking "I want the thing which I spent so much time and money on to do well" makes sense?