Sony: Raised R&D Costs Related to PS4 Launch

[Maximus]

Originally Posted by partridge

Time will tell. And who said anything about being forced to buy it? Where did that come from. I'm a launch day buyer of the PS3, when PS4 comes along I'll get it, no worries there, but I don't expect to see it this side of 2013.

I'm not expecting Project Cafe to be anything more than a slightly better PS3/360. I don't expect it to give Sony or MS anything to worry about. It's about Nintendo playing catch up now that Wii sales are declining. They've saturated that market, now they need to get back in the business of offering their gamers something more than Mario and Zelda; they need real 3rd party support.

They won't get that by expecting Activision or EA to plough even more millions into next gen versions of CoD, etc.

You're talking about the games sector like it is static market and games will sell the same every year without any innovation. Seriously, they don't. CoD is something of an exception in that it has massive brand recognition, but look at Madden or PES, they were huge last gen, but this gen the sales have been declining because publishers release the same game with a new coat of paint every year.

Café is powerful and cheap enough that it will probably become the platform of choice for developers if sales are good and they see no movement on next gen from Sony/MS. That would be a disaster for both companies as a relatively powerful and cheap Nintendo console with full third party support and the stable of Nintendo games would be a formidable competitor. The Wii won this gen without third party support, now imagine how bad it would be for Sony/MS is they'd had it from the start of the gen.

This is why Nintendo are jumping next gen first, they saw the Wii crashed because they had no third party support, and launching a more powerful, easy to code for console early is the best way to get third party support. Sony and MS have to respond to this or they will be steamrolled.