After once again being outdone by both the
Wii and Xbox 360 in September with only just over 100,000 consoles sold in the US, it seems that the 3rd party developers are starting to drop support for PS3 and making roost on the
Wii and Xbox 360 instead. Below is a quote, perhaps you'd like to read it?
"One piece of news that came out this week was that Sony pleaded with third-party developers not to abandon its struggling platform. That change in attitude is a marked difference compared to the arrogance of past years. The argument is that the PS3 will show its strength as developers learn how to make games for it. But developers know they can staff four or five Wii teams with the same number of people it takes to make one PS3 game. We may have a glut of Wii games soon, but that’s not as bad as not having enough games on the PS3."
This news comes just after developer Capcom dropped development of Monster Hunter 3 on the PS3 and ported it over to the
Wii because it cost too much, and with this announcement it seems that Sony are getting anxious. Below are the system sales charts for September.
Xbox 360: 527,800
Wii: 501,000
Nintendo DS: 495,800
PlayStation Portable: 284,500
PlayStation 2: 215,000
PlayStation 3: 119,400
Game Boy Advance: 75,000
Sony won't be happy with those results. A change in strategy might be due for Sony, but the question is.... what can they do? We know the reason the PS3 is expensive is because of the Blu Ray and they can't knowingly remove that from their systems.
Recently a new cheaper PS3 model was introduced with a smaller hard drive, wired controllers and no backward compatibility. But would that be good enough for the system to catch up to the
Wii? Time will tell.... but in all honesty it ain't looking good for the once generation leader.
No flaming m'kay.
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