I was just going to ask the same thing. The camera is going for double price on Amazon, and ebay. I got the last one at my local Best Buy. Maybe Sony underestimated the demand?
This guy is a big part of gaming history; I would think twice about dismissing him. The way I understand it, had he not sold Atari to Warner, it might well have stayed a major force in gaming. He went onAnd as for his comments, I was reading this quote:
"A lot of times in the past they were in Japanese; not well documented and getting the software development community up to speed. The American software community just says 'Oh boy, what a pain'. And a lot of people don't realize how strong the software community is at making the hardware platform sing and dance." jordonj
That doesn't sound like an "XBOT" to me. That has been a major grievance with developers with the PS3. And Sony, from what I understand, has not been friendly to developers who are developing multi-platform. The days of selling a console on exclusives are over. If I were a developer, and had a console that was easy to develop for, and one that was finicky to develop for, I would concentrate on the easier one. Though I would try to make it run on the finicky one, I probably could only do so much. After the game was released, I would be losing money fixing the game. And if the console was difficult to develop for, there comes a point where you just have to throw in the towel. For that I blame Sony. After all, new games cost $60 (a day's pay for most people). When we get an anticipated title that plays like a piece of crap, we have every right to be upset. The thing to remember is that the business of creating video games is a business first and foremost. For my part, I hope Nolan's wrong, but with how the Vita seems stalled and how several games seem to run better on the 360, I worry.
Don't worry, the PS4 won't have the same problem with inferior versions of games like the PS3. The PS4 is going to have a ton of RAM, unlike the PS3, also since the PS3 was very slow out of the gate, Sony changed a lot of the way they work with developers. They've been putting a lot of importance on building relationships with indie developers in particular, but they are also building the PS4 with input from major developers (Gearbox, Square Enix, etc.). I think the PS4 will be fine, as for the Vita it needs a price drop plain and simple.Â
I'm guessing PS4 will be out Fall 2013. The WiiU comes out this fall, and it sounds like the next XBOX will come out in 2013. It would be a huge mistake on Sony's part to release behind Microsoft again.
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