However it also increases the costs exponentially.
Sony is touting it's billions in revenues and millions of console sales, but it blatantly ignores commenting about expenditures as if they haven't made a dent in the companies most recent practices. Each console sale is a very large loss in revenue - as each console is sold at a very big loss, for both the retailers and Sony itself.
This aggressive expansion in the market signals a desperate attempt to increase first party game sales and third-party licensing profits. What makes this expansion seem desperate is the fact that they're making such an aggressive expansion in a market that is notorious for pirating console games.
The console market has always been volatile, and with so many contenders - it's expected that one of them is bound to drop out within the next generation.
I predict that Sony will be the one to drop out after it's next console, and will refer to this thread five years from now when I'm right for some well deserved I told you so's.
Microsoft is bigger, and is able to throw more money at third-party developers. Nothing is more evident to this fact than Square-Enix's recent announcement. Without exclusive third-party game releases, what does Sony have that the X-box doesn't?
If you say Blu-ray in a gaming thread, I'm going to smack you.
Their The Sims like gimmick programs may not save them, especially when Animal Crossing and The Sims have already been out for a number of years... The Wii also has many of the same News and Weather programs that Sony recently announced.
Truth be told, I don't think Sony has any real aces up their sleeve at this point. I fear they're just trying to get through this generation without the PS3 going down as the first Playstation that failed to dominate the market...
Sony is touting it's billions in revenues and millions of console sales, but it blatantly ignores commenting about expenditures as if they haven't made a dent in the companies most recent practices. Each console sale is a very large loss in revenue - as each console is sold at a very big loss, for both the retailers and Sony itself.
This aggressive expansion in the market signals a desperate attempt to increase first party game sales and third-party licensing profits. What makes this expansion seem desperate is the fact that they're making such an aggressive expansion in a market that is notorious for pirating console games.
The console market has always been volatile, and with so many contenders - it's expected that one of them is bound to drop out within the next generation.
I predict that Sony will be the one to drop out after it's next console, and will refer to this thread five years from now when I'm right for some well deserved I told you so's.
Microsoft is bigger, and is able to throw more money at third-party developers. Nothing is more evident to this fact than Square-Enix's recent announcement. Without exclusive third-party game releases, what does Sony have that the X-box doesn't?
If you say Blu-ray in a gaming thread, I'm going to smack you.
Their The Sims like gimmick programs may not save them, especially when Animal Crossing and The Sims have already been out for a number of years... The Wii also has many of the same News and Weather programs that Sony recently announced.
Truth be told, I don't think Sony has any real aces up their sleeve at this point. I fear they're just trying to get through this generation without the PS3 going down as the first Playstation that failed to dominate the market...
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