"Zomoniac" <the_proper_one@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On 9/6/05 01:14, in article U6udnWbpMtq6FzrfRVn-jw@suscom.com, "Boody
> Bandit" <boodybandit@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> "Brian Kvalheim [MSFT MVP]" <bkvalheim@publishermvps.com> wrote in 
>> message
>> news:%23s80xxHbFHA.2076@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>>> Sounds like Kutaragi is worried. He should be :)
>>
>> Why?
>> Do yah think MS might cut into that 100+ million PS2 sales with the 360 
>> ;-)
>> I really don't think Sony is worried in this next gen. It is going to 
>> take a
>> bit longer for MS to be a serious threat to Sony's userbase.
>
> I don't see why, Sony annihilated the two hardware and software giants in
> their first generation.

But Sony did it out of the gate.

> Gaming is unpredictable,

IMO it's exactly the opposite.

> although that said the more
> mass-market and casual it becomes, the more predictable it will become.

It already is mass-market and casual.  Die hard gamers are the minority not 
the norm.

> Harry Potter 4 WILL get to number one. And yes, I suspect PS3 will win 
> this
> gen on name alone, but it can't do it forever (at least I hope it can't).

Nothing last forever but IMHO this next gen is already a lock for Sony.
They have made all the right moves and they have all the momentum.  I don't 
see them slowing down a notch, if anything they are only gaining speed and 
their userbase is only going to keep on growing and growing and growing.