so i drove around today and listened to the podcast, and i have to disagree with luke and garnett about the continued success of ps2 being detrimental to ps3. i think that for most ps2 owners, the obvious natural path of progression continues to be ps3. the price might scare some off early on, but that just means they'll wait, in my opinion, and not switch to microsoft just because the 360 happens to be cheaper. in the same way, people hopping on the ps2 train at this late stage aren't going to just say "well, i'm ready for the 360 now," they're just as likely to wait it out until the ps3 has the right blend of cheap hardware and games they're looking for. the continued selling power of ps2 is not bad news for sony, sure they might want to sell more ps3s, but people buying ps2s now aren't usually going to be folks running out to buy cutting edge hardware anyway. in other news, i hate agreeing with shane.
on the concept of using the ps2 to fund your big budget ps3 games... why? obviously i'm an industry outsider, but what sense does that make? if your ps3 game is going to be a money loser, how about just not making it. if ps2 is going to be your cash cow, well, 1+1=2 and all that. if next gen development is prohibitively expensive and not likely to reap rewards and certainly likely to reap less rewards than the current generation, stick with the current generation. in other news, this is why the constant need to upgrade in gaming is fundamentally retarded.
speaking of fundamentally retarded upgrades, garnett must have been drinking heavily if he thinks that not only will microsoft come out in 2008 with new hardware, but that it would be a good idea that would kill sony. it would be more likely to kill the gaming industry, because new hardware that soon is so ridiculous and i don't think even microsoft is that stupid about the console world. there's no reason these machines shouldn't last for dern well near a decade... the only thing perhaps preventing microsoft from lasting that long would be if blu ray/additional disk space really becomes a necessary evil for more than just a handful of titles. there's no reason to rush to replace either of these systems, even if you fall way behind and think you need to pull a microsoft and just bail out and start over. bailing out would be fine, just start over by joining the other guy, that's all.
