28th April 2007, 5:24 PM
Yeah, speculation of a Wii that also plays DVDs has been around for some time now... but one with HDD support would count for a lot more to me. It badly needs more storage space, and SD cards aren't enough. Expensive. And besides, you can't actually use them to store VC games you want to play, you have to transfer stuff to the HDD to use it...
Anyway, yeah, Sony is in big trouble. Some people are saying "N64 or GC success"... well, if so, why is it well behind what the N64 and GC were at by this points in their lives (well, GC certainly; not sure about the N64 because of the long delay between regions, but probably)? :) Maybe once it reaches $300 it'll start doing better, but if by then the thing is far, far behind in sales, it'll be too late... yeah, Sony has problems. They deserve them, though, after their behavior. :)
MS? Agreed, Halo 3 will heal many wounds. It won't sell the 360 with the nongamers the Wii is targeting, but MS isn't trying to win that market (Viva Pinata aside). Its nonexistent Japanese marketshare hurts a lot -- like with the GC/Xbox thing, the PS3 will probably get more Japanese third party games than the X360 simply because it's selling better there. The 360 seems to be doing great with the people who buy them -- the owners have lots of games, etc -- but the marketshare just isn't increasing like they want it to. That's the problem with having a console built on bald-space-marine games, I guess. :)
Anyway, yeah, Sony is in big trouble. Some people are saying "N64 or GC success"... well, if so, why is it well behind what the N64 and GC were at by this points in their lives (well, GC certainly; not sure about the N64 because of the long delay between regions, but probably)? :) Maybe once it reaches $300 it'll start doing better, but if by then the thing is far, far behind in sales, it'll be too late... yeah, Sony has problems. They deserve them, though, after their behavior. :)
MS? Agreed, Halo 3 will heal many wounds. It won't sell the 360 with the nongamers the Wii is targeting, but MS isn't trying to win that market (Viva Pinata aside). Its nonexistent Japanese marketshare hurts a lot -- like with the GC/Xbox thing, the PS3 will probably get more Japanese third party games than the X360 simply because it's selling better there. The 360 seems to be doing great with the people who buy them -- the owners have lots of games, etc -- but the marketshare just isn't increasing like they want it to. That's the problem with having a console built on bald-space-marine games, I guess. :)
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