Sony: Raised R&D Costs Related to PS4 Launch

[Wingman1977]

Originally Posted by Maximus

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.

They will but that doesn't mean that we'll see their consoles in 2012.

[Maximus]

I think it does at least Sony will launch in Japan as a show of good faith. If the third parties think the consoles aren't coming until 2014 why bother supporting them over the Café?

PS2 beat Dreamcast because it had all the third party support and PS1 was awesome so gamers waited for it. PS4 has none of these luxuries. It has a smaller userbase to follow than PS2 and no guarantee of third party support like PS3