Sony's Future?

[gekko]

Well Stu, you asked.

PS2 will remain at the top, and continue to lose support throughout the years. Yes, I did say continue. PS2 doesn't have the name it had a year ago. It has sales, but it's losing it's support from fans and developers. That will continue, no big deal.

PSP will do decent in Japan, Wonderswan and Neo Geo decent. Won't touch GBA. Will do quite poorly, even worse in the US, if they decide to release it here.

PS3 will crash and burn. Sony blew it this generation, they won, but they blew it. Sony can hype all they want, but remember what happened last time, they didn't deliver. Developers won't stand by and let it happen again, gamers won't be so quick to jump on the sony bandwagon. There's a new hardware leader in town, we call it Xbox. Xbox delivers the best hardware by far, and you know what? Gamers will expect it again next generation, just like they had high hopes for Sony this generation. Xbox will get the 3rd party support, Xbox will get the graphic junkies, and Xbox will get the Sony crowd. Nintendo will keep it's large following, and likely pick up quite a few Xbox and Sony fans along the way if they can prove themselves hardwarewise beforehand. Where does that leave Sony? 3rd. Dead last. Why? Because developers will move on, PS2 was way too difficult to develop for at its release last time. They had to stick around, PS2 had tens of millions of owners already. But they can move on now. Gamers will move on, Xbox and Gamecube are getting many more of the big titles already, and that will continue towards the release of these systems. Sony won this generation because they were successful getting a lot of people to buy the console very quickly. Next generation, don't expect people to forget the systems many downfalls.