The
numbers don't lie, Sony's juggernaut Playstation 3 is over 6 million
units behind the Xbox 360. The price of the console is twice as much as
the 360. So if Sony cannot cut the price, what is there for them to do to save the console?
The could make a deal with the devil. Nintendo, yes you heard
me right the Big N Sony's #1 rival for over a decade but things have changed recently, the path Nintendo has gone down has geared them
towards casual gamers, little kids and grandmas. If that's the route
Nintendo wants to take then the chances are they will not make hardcore
games from the Star Fox, F-Zero or Legend of Zelda series. Those great
franchises are going to waste if Nintendo won't use them.
Well
imagine this, Sony gives of the license for Little Big Planet to
Nintendo for them to make a LBP Wii and in exchange Nintendo gives the
rights of the Zelda or F-Zero series to SCEA. Just imagine how epic
Zelda would be if it was made by the creators of Shadow of the Colossus
or God of War. The game could have amazing graphics, hours apon hours
of side quests and even online via Playstation Network. All the
hardcore fans Nintendo has ditched have all moved to a new system. Now
what better way to get them to choose PS3 over Xbox 360 than a title
from there most beloved franchise. Zelda is a very valuable franchise
so Nintendo might not give it up even for rights to a LBP game. So if
the deal was LBP for F-Zero, now F-Zero could be taken far on the PS3's
hardware. They could rethink the series and turn it into a free-roam
racer like Burnout Paradise. Miles apon miles of futuristic racing
would be one epic game.
But on the downside, one of PS3's
killer app games would have a title on the Wii so it might drive some
people off from buying the PS3 if LBP is available on the Wii.
Could this be Sony's saving grace or would it hurt them more than it would help?
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Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
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Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Interesting concept.I would love to play Zelda on my PS3.
Tho i don't expect it to ever happen.
Although I fail to see how Sony is failing, in effect they have sold more consoles per year than MS it's only lately with the onset of the recession that sales have begun to lag more and more heavily. The only 2 ways to counter this is to continue with the great support in terms of games, apps and improved online service and heavily market their product. Solution number 2 which could be done in conjunction with nr. 1 is to of course drop the price.
It would of course help Sony to get even more titles in to an already amazing repetoir, however I doubt a deal with Nintendo would sit well with either company.
All I neeeded to read was this, "Sony's juggernaut Playstation 3 is over 6 million units behind the Xbox 360. The price of the console is twice as much as the 360." I'll add one thing, the Xbox360 came out a year before the PS3.
And there you have it. I wonder what people would be saying if the PS3 and 360 were tied in units sold, would they actually call it a tie? I wouldn't, I don't see how the year head start is not a valid argument.
Anyway, I don't think this would help Sony, and even if it could, I don't see this happening.
perhaps all that could happen. I seriously doubt nintendo has no plans for any of those franchises and the last time they licensed out their franchises for a non nintendo system they got the piles of crap for the cd-i. I think nintendo is going to leave them to rot. I think sony has a better chance bunking with Microsoft. They are a relative newcomer to the console market and may not know better.
lol i can understand MS and Nintendo becasue MS got games on the DS but Sony lol keep dreaming ps3fanboys.Dream beyond