But can't be a lucrative business for the majority of the industry's developers. It doesn't have to be the Majority that buys it. As long as it has a decade life-span, it will profit because developers evolve every few years or so. And with a 10 year life-span, developers would get very used to the hardware. It took developers too much time to get used to the PS3 hardware, and now the gen is almost over.
[QUOTE="MonsterVision"]true, but what I'm saying is that it doesn't have to be that way.foxhound_fox
Good luck making profitable games. Progress has to be tempered with business strategy and budgeting. Just putting all the best tech into a console and expecting developers to cure cancer with it isn't a sound strategy. The Neo Geo lasted from 1990 and discontinued in 2004. It was 24-bit before 16 bit was even popular. It can work.
I would buy an $800 console if I knew the tech would be 2-3 gens ahead of this one. Price is holding back progress, and it's not just Nintendo at fault here. Hypothetically, would you rather buy a $300 console every 4-5 years, or an $800 one with a lifespan of 10 years? thoughts?
Not having Iron Sights is one of the reasons why the shooting in Gears of War is so fun, however Gears of War 3 gunplay looks like COD. Anyone else dissapointed by this?
Cosoles are going to be higher priced next gen. The wii U won't be any where near $250(I don't think). The controller itself is going to be pricey. Pack thta in with more advanced tech and you have a pricey console. Sony showed that you can compete with an expensive console, it just isn't the business move you want to do every generation.
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The reason Sony has been successful in the first place, was because their PS1 was priced at $299, while the Sega Saturn was $399. If the PS1 was priced at $600, I think Sega would still be making consoles today.
There was a little more to it than that. At the time, Blu ray players cost more than $600. When you think of the deal you got with the ps3, it really was a bargain.
It was, but people didn't want to buy blue ray discs when they were content with their dvd player + DVD's were $10 cheaper of the same movie. Nowadays, things have changed obviously
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