Does Sony have a plan B???

[megateto]

When you're outselling your nearest competitor by more than 400% and the gap is still growing, why not wait until you've got the hardware that you want?

I know, I know, these are the facts, but I was just suggesting a little game.. It's horrible to quote myself, but...

Seems I didn't make myself clear enough the second time either.

I'm just asking for a What if ¡¡¡¡ What if Sony wasn't able to release PS3 soon enough due to problems with Cell, problems bad enough to let their competition a one year headstart?. Do you think they would be able to recover from it? Is Sony's power strong enough to keep average Joe from Xbox2 and GC, doing a dreamcast to them?

Saludos

If you don't like playing, just don't do it. I'm just trying to milk your ideas on this "what if" front¡¡ I've been learning sooo much since I began to read these forums...

 

[Ozymandis]

I didn't mean to inject any reality into your "game". Carry on

 

[megadrive0088]

Personally I don't see where they need to do anything. There's too much emphasis on hardware here. As long as Playstation2 maintains the best developer support, I don't think that Sony needs to rush things.

When you're outselling your nearest competitor by more than 400% and the gap is still growing, why not wait until you've got the hardware that you want

Agreed.


Sony doesn't NEED to have PS3 out in '05....so it will make it out in '06 as originally planned way back in '99. Sony's doing fine with PS2.
the PSP and PSX and probable PSTwo will sustain the Playstation brand until PS3 arrives, like I think Panajev has said on occasion.

 

[London Geezer]

Personally I don't see where they need to do anything. There's too much emphasis on hardware here. As long as Playstation2 maintains the best developer support, I don't think that Sony needs to rush things.

When you're outselling your nearest competitor by more than 400% and the gap is still growing, why not wait until you've got the hardware that you want

Agreed.


Sony doesn't NEED to have PS3 out in '05....so it will make it out in '06 as originally planned way back in '99. Sony's doing fine with PS2.
the PSP and PSX and probable PSTwo will sustain the Playstation brand until PS3 arrives, like I think Panajev has said on occasion.

yep. just like when PS2 came out, PS1 still outsold every other console put together that Xmas.... it sold more than DC+PS2+N64+anything else. put together.
then PS2 slowly took over.
eheh PS1 still outsells "some" consoles in japan

 

[Evil_Cloud]

Did "some" consoles sell their Japanese stocks already?

 

[London Geezer]

it's *some* newer, bigger and better consoles... i'm sure there are some thread around the boards about it....

 

[Phil]

it sold more than DC+PS2+N64+anything else. put together.
then PS2 slowly took over.

If this is correct, only due to shortages though. PS2's sold like mad from the getgo. There's no comparasment really, and your statement sounds as if PS2 sales slowly picked up which they did not: They were always high to beginn with, which explains why there was such a shortage.

 

[London Geezer]

YEAH of course.... what i meant is that it PS2 didnt take over PS2 overnight. and the reason was partly the shortages...

 

[Evil_Cloud]

Mmm JAP SNES launch was worse
1.200.000 pre-orders, and only 300.000 available
People fought for their SNES consoles and most shops closed because they only received 3 consoles