Everyone here seems to forget that early adopters and fanboys are crazy. They will pay anything to say they own a PS3 and Sony knows this. The PS3 can come out at $1000 and it will still be a sellout in every store. And you will be seeing them on E-bay for well over $1500 I'm sure and they will sell as well.
As was mentioned above Sony isn't really trying to win the console war this time around. That is secondary to them. They just want to win the media war over HD-DVD which will land them a lot more money then a gaming console will because it will pretty much be just free roalty money from every blu-ray disk sold.
I assumed there would be more games on here that would realize CPL isn't the only league and the US isn't the only country. Just because CPL doesn't run the tour this year doesn't mean they aren't having CPL tournaments and just because something has a setback in the US doesn't mean it is over for the rest of the world.
Also some players can make a very good living off of these tournaments...admitedly this is only a very very small percentage. When the article mentioned "The overall winner of the Grand Final was Jonathan Wendel, aka Fatal1ty, who amassed cash prizes of $231,000 during the year long event" this was not a 5 vs 5 CS match. This was a 1 vs 1 Painkiller match so all that money went to him...and the government of course. Plus he has sponsers which will cover all his travel expenses.
I should also mention that Major League Gaming has signed a deal with USA Network to start televising some tournaments.
So I wouldn't call pro gaming dead.
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Everyone here seems to forget that early adopters and fanboys are crazy. They will pay anything to say they own a PS3 and Sony knows this. The PS3 can come out at $1000 and it will still be a sellout in every store. And you will be seeing them on E-bay for well over $1500 I'm sure and they will sell as well. As was mentioned above Sony isn't really trying to win the console war this time around. That is secondary to them. They just want to win the media war over HD-DVD which will land them a lot more money then a gaming console will because it will pretty much be just free roalty money from every blu-ray disk sold.
No sponsors??
CPL Sponsors include AMD and Verizon
Major League Gaming has sponsors like Scion, Boost Moble, and Gamestop
And Intel, nVidia, and ATI constantly sponser tournaments. I don't suspect sponsorship is an issue.
I assumed there would be more games on here that would realize CPL isn't the only league and the US isn't the only country. Just because CPL doesn't run the tour this year doesn't mean they aren't having CPL tournaments and just because something has a setback in the US doesn't mean it is over for the rest of the world. Also some players can make a very good living off of these tournaments...admitedly this is only a very very small percentage. When the article mentioned "The overall winner of the Grand Final was Jonathan Wendel, aka Fatal1ty, who amassed cash prizes of $231,000 during the year long event" this was not a 5 vs 5 CS match. This was a 1 vs 1 Painkiller match so all that money went to him...and the government of course. Plus he has sponsers which will cover all his travel expenses. I should also mention that Major League Gaming has signed a deal with USA Network to start televising some tournaments. So I wouldn't call pro gaming dead.