Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!news.moat.net!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.suscom.com!news.suscom.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 06:16:10 -0500 From: "Boody Bandit" Newsgroups: alt.games.video.sony-playstation2,alt.games.video.xbox,japan.videogames.playstation,microsoft.public.xbox,rec.games.video.3do,rec.games.video.advocacy,rec.games.video.sony,uk.games.video.playstation,uk.games.video.xbox References: <8smdnXPtHPSX6TrfRVn-vw@comcast.com> <#s80xxHbFHA.2076@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl> Subject: Re: Ken Kutaragi compares Xbox 360 to 3DO Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 07:14:08 -0400 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Message-ID: Lines: 44 NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.235.182.223 X-Trace: sv3-TRCADfZSB4JhoFHjvbphflQjzsVo8VaPYV6C/B4+aNG2n7FFc6yu6M4+jtTyAa3PDgE/mEDy/nBMgSC!S/wUnymVXgrSuhwoZkE0zERz0RroDltk5hGVOqOrpGETvSGxeOXuSo+6dAYnBk8b7NcqJTbH1A== X-Complaints-To: abuse@suscom.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@suscom.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org japan.videogames.playstation:81 "Zomoniac" wrote in message news:BECDB3D8.2B3E9%the_proper_one@hotmail.com... > On 9/6/05 01:14, in article U6udnWbpMtq6FzrfRVn-jw@suscom.com, "Boody > Bandit" wrote: > >> >> "Brian Kvalheim [MSFT MVP]" 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.