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Xbox 360 Wins Through 2009?
simoniker writes "As part of a recent MI6 Conference presentation, IDG's Jason Anderson made predictions on the North American installed base of the next-gen consoles through 2008. He predicts that the Xbox 360 will continue to hold a lead into 2009, with the PS3 just behind and the Wii trailing significantly. In particular: 'In 2008, Anderson suggests 15.5 million units in homes for the Xbox 360, 13.5 million for PS3, and 6.8 million for Wii.' Is the Wii really going to trail by so much, or do the analysts not 'get it'?"
That's because the PS3 won't be available until 2010! Although it wouldn't supprise me to see the Wii take the lead eventually.
I see alot of comments on here about how that must be dead wrong, but he is probably taking those nubmers from the way the curretn gen systems sold, I mean lets think about this, the Averae gamer (not the uber gamers) no longer looks at nintendo, infact they all have an Xbox or PS2 right now because of the mature gaming platform, those of us who really love games picked up Nintendo's product, becasue we wanted to see what it could do.
Rigth now the average gamer doesn't want inovation, he just wants flashy graphics and a good FPS that a noob could pick up and win in, Nintendo is trying to sell in their style, but their style will not match up with the average gamer community, The PS3 is to expensive right now to the average gamer, the Wii is to far from what they are used to, so the XBox 360 is perfect, I think the guy has a good theory, but only time will truely tell if all these companies live up to their promises or not
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If you're happy with an emulator running Mario Brothers on a Mac Mini, why are you even posting in the gaming section of Slashdot? You're not a gamer, and your viewpoint doesn't tell us anything about the article because the article is written about people who *are* gamers.
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"Not to mention the die-hard nintendo fanbase that will buy only the Wii."
Us die-hard Nintendo fan boys don't necessarily buy Nintendo products exclusively. Unfortunately, it's hard to ignore games like GTA on the other systems.
(Note: This is not a rebuttal to your entire post, just a minor nitpick. Nintendo fanboys are not quite like other fanboys.)
"Derp de derp."
Hey everyone, if you see a story that is pro-X360 and anti PS3 or Wii (this means basiaclly anything under ths games category in Slashdot), assign a tag of "zonked" to it. If the tag is popular enough to float up to the top level perhaps Zonk will rethink his personal crusade.
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I hate to break it to you, but the console is essentially a PC with more restrictions. It's a PC that's been so DRM'd that it can only be used to play games that are licensed for that console.
And I can't imagine why you think a console will "just work" any more than Steam. I guarantee someday you'll bring home a console game and it will either be defective (won't play at all), or your console will reject it for some other reason. At least with a PC, it's highly likely I'll have a backup for all my savegames -- with a console, you need an exploit in order to do it in any kind of automated fashion. And I don't have a source for this, but my brother once brought home a PS2 demo cd that completely corrupted our memory card.
The difference is, on a PC, it's usually possible for you to prevent things from going wrong, whereas on a console, there's not much you can do if someone else (console manufacturer, game developer/publisher) screws it up.
It's true, it's not very likely that a console game will have that kind of problem -- but on a well maintained PC, that's not likely either. It's easier to maintain a console than a Windows PC, but Windows is not your only option -- a Mac is pretty easy to maintain, and Linux, while hard to set up, is even easier to keep clean. But even if it's got to be Windows, keeping your PC clean has other advantages than games.
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