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Chubear

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Playstation Brand, the new Nintendo

Sony's Playstation 3 had more than it's fair share of FUD by both the over whelming majority of the gaming media and a large portion of the gaming community it's self. There are many reasons why these entities religeously flooded the world wide media space with mind blowing negativity but I'm going to present one of the many reasons why the threatment the PS3 got from these entities has been worse than we've ever witnessed in gaming history.

Most of the negativity comes from fear. Fear that the PS3 will dominate yet again and what that could mean. We've heard all too well about a point that was used to dispell the PS3 which was that no gaming console has ever won (talk less of dominated) for 3 consecutive times and this is a significant point.

It is my view that should the PS3 dominate again this gen (or even just win out) that the Playstation brand of gaming will now be symnomious with video gaming just like Nintendo's been for the past two decades and if this happens the Playstation brand would be virtually unbeatable for a very long time. Why? well the thing is with the Playstation brand being even more dominant than Nintendo was and at a longer time period, people will undoubtedly see it as the defacto console with anything video games.

With Playstation winning this gen again and being the first console to win three consecutive times, it'll be virtually impossible for any other console, new or known, to put a dent in the Playstation brand's momentum. Should new consoles emerge, look for them to have the likes of Nintendo in their cross-hairs instead of taking on a behemoth like the Playstation brand.

Should Playstation 3 dominate this gen, the Playstation brand is pretty much guaranteed success for at least the next two generations (over 10 more years) should the gaming industry as a whole remain competitive and relivant in the future.

Hagaf226520d ago

interesting thinking, and i agree, if sony can overcome the immense amount of negativity from launch and pull this gen out, it will put them in an iconic level for gaming console manufacturing. I have never regretted my ps3 purchase, even though it is the 20 gig model (simple to put in a new one=120 gigs). but it has gotten alot of heat but it seems people are starting to see that, like i said from the get go, its got a ton of potential. where as microsoft played mostly all of their cards at launch, sony has been slow feeding us greatness.

Fragking286520d ago

um dominating this generation ha the wii is like 11 million ahead there is no way there catching up with the wii sellin no less than half a mill in america alone every month.

tojfs79316520d ago

Already IS a dominant brand in the videogaming market.

Fragking286520d ago

no friend nintendo is the most dominant brand

Telmarine6519d ago

No offense, but Nintendo seems like it's more focused on exercise than gaming, plus they don't care much about hardcore gamers, since Wii's online is arguably the worst of the three, and all those minigames and crappy third party support.

Nintendo IS dominating in sales, but that doesn't mean its the best console.

g3nkie6519d ago

Ya, if you still include the Wii as a next gen console....

MaalDeJah6519d ago

If its going to dominate for the next 10 years(estimated), then Microsoft or maybe Nintendo is bound to release another console, which most likely(Microsoft) should equal out or surpass the Ps3.

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CrashMania4h ago

Such a BS law is this honestly, very poorly thought out and far too broadly applied.

So it's to 'protect children' from harmful content in messages, yet they can continue to play multiplayer regardless, where they will hear worse, they can even hear worse stuff in the street and school playground FFS lol

DarXyde1m ago

Well, they can't regulate schoolyard talk or the streets of London, so this is probably the next best thing.

I don't agree with it, though it's exactly the sort of tweak around the edges politicians would make to have it seem like they're doing something.

About as effective as "protecting women's sports" in the US that literally targets 4-5 trans athletes nationally: you *could* do that... But why would you do that.

Both cases are just prudish politics for deeply unserious people.

Profchaos3h ago

And I bet when you get your account banned they try and take the access to your digital purchases away

badz14931m ago

somehow I think people will try and blame Sony for this