First I want to point out the problem with all of the names people use for the next game console. I can't stand people calling "Gamecube 2", as it is the fifth Nintendo console and will NOT be a sequel to Gamecube of any kind. It will simply be the next console, with no relation to Gamecube. I saw somebody use or mention "Gamesphere" which is just as lame since it also follows up Gamecube, as if Gamecube was the first and this is the second. Gamecube had sort of a cubical form, so are there people suggesting that this supposed "Gamesphere" will be a ball? I would like to see somebody figure out how to make that functional. The "Nexus" idea is the most realistic of them all, and I would be surprised if it even came out being anything like that. Yes, right now we do not even have a project name to call it by, but do we have to invent our own ridiculous ones? If we all do that, we'll have this guy calling it "Gamecube 2", this other guy calling it "NES 5", the next one calling it "Nintendo Mega System", and still another calling it "Mario's Magical Box of Mystery" or whatever.
And secondly comes a response to Samwise Gamgee's post:
"no matter what, people will buy the ps3 no matter what! no matter what, it will most likely sell the best even if it is more expensive! and people will look at those extra features and will think its more advanced b/c of it!!! people will not flock to nintendo b/c it doesnt have all the rest of those features! believe it or not, i kno alot of ppl who have chosen the ps2 over gc cuz of the DVD, its a selling point!"
I really expect more from any given person than that. I mean, this is just plain ignorant. To think that Sony has some sort of invincibility is completely ignorant to the historical facts. If one looks back more than a few years ago, Nintendo was in the same place that Sony is now, and held that place for quite some years. It looked like nobody could topple Nintendo, and many tried and failed for years. It did happen, though. The same can, and can, and still can, and forever can, can, can, and more can happen to Sony now. It will never, ever, ever, ever, ever be impossible. People did not buy PS2 over GCN because of the POS DVD feature, either. It outsold GCN because of the name, not the DVD function. If PS2 did not have the DVD function and GCN did have it, PS2 would still have outsold GCN because of the name. Yes, there are those that bought PS2 for and primarily use it for DVDs and there are those that simply like having that function, but it didn't make the difference between selling 50 million and selling 1- million. The name did that. It was simply the successor to the dominant console in the generation before, and so it entirely rode on the coattail of the PSX.
Topic: ps3/xbox to get crush by GC2? (Read 17864 times)
