Why the PS3 will come out on top

For all the bashing back and forth from so-called "fanboys" towards their rivalling console, it just occured to me as to why the PS3 will come out on top. Or rather, will finish before Microsoft's hardware. We'll not take Wii into account here.

It is as easy as can be: with most publishers preferring dual-format simultaneous development in order to maximize revenue, a lot can be said about the quality of exclusives. True, in the long run, these will be an influencing factor as to which purchase to make. While currently, many many people are looking at what is available now, I guess it is pretty safe to say that eventually BOTH consoles will have a good amount of great exclusives. Yes, MS is leading and Sony trailing, but that will no doubt level out.

At that moment, when both consoles have a good amount of great exclusives, it will not be the decisive factor anymore. Hardware will. With prices having come down by that time, consumers will look at what offers me most. Sony's expensive machine - which will be affordable, yet still more costly than 360, or Microsoft's. With Sony giving so much more out of the box, I think consumers will easily decide on it. MS, because of early-adopter compatibility issues, can not follow suit and will start loosing heavily. The sales trend will eventually be reversed: Sony outselling MS.

One question I can not answer easily, is what will happen in North America. How the cards will have been dealt there. MS's amazing headstart, even though their initial hardware was ill-engineered, could be a bridge too far for Sony to tackle. Worldwide though, Sony'll win it. Not by as far as margin as it did previously though. But it will win it.

2 years since

Waw. I must say I am quite surprised. Because of this blog which was not deleted. It's been two bleeming years of inactivity. I wonder what competing blog hosts would have done. I am amazed because of the two posts I jotted down. I am Belgian, I said so and I am amazed that the two posts readable in this corner of the internet are well typed and still easily readable after all these years. I must be mastering English better than I supposed before.

I am amazed as well about how well the second post dated. I mentioned that 360 would be holding its own quite well and look how things are now. 360 is indeed keeping its act together. Both good games as well as good marketing and a splendid on-line service are making it so. The 360 is a machine to be reckoned with... and it's all good.

Less good is how Sony has been perceived these last years. They have stretched themselves into delivering a fantastic product to the masses. The latter have been cool into receiving it. Strange how a company - even though it's delivering astonishing products - can have huge crowds gathering against it. Really, I am still wondering where the Japanese company has gone wrong to feed such an outbreak of forum-based hostility.

The inclusion of BluRay? We should be grateful.
Their development of a dedicated processor? We should appreciate that.
Their showing of the Killzone trailer? What should they have done instead?
Them asking $599 for the system? Which would then be the realistic pricepoint?

No, I do not have a clue what went wrong in their marketing campaign and I am still wondering how they got to the deep end of where they were, because, granted, things are improving. And I support them. As I do, Microsoft and Nintendo.

I do not support being biased because of the sake of it. How's it referred to again? Fanboyism.