see the playstation is for people that like nintendo and the nintendo is for people that don't play games and xbox is just a bunch of *****ing *****its

I'm honestly surprised to see somebody refer to the current console generation as "this generation". Usually, people refer to the current gen as next gen, which is the stupidest thing i've ever heard of.

Sony said this 2 years before the PS3 came out. Just wait M$ will be claiming this as an original thought in a couple weeks.

I have both a ps3 and an x360. But if things last longer, the ps3 will win in the long run, because of it's numerous own IP, like god of war 3 that will pop soon, it's current gen tech instead of the x360's ancien techs (DVDs... I mean, in my copy of lost odyssey, 3 DVDs were inside and placed, and another DVD were in a paper case... wow... and without an install, it's super ultra slow in loadings...). I think the ps3 will win from 2k10. M$ popped big names with star ocean going exclusive for exemple, but they won't have something against god of war 3. And white knight story will surely beat star ocean 4 in ratings (Level 5 always do 9.5 games...) for the JRPG section. Not a lot of exclusives for the year 2k9 too. For the shooters, Killzone 2 will surely be rated around 8.5 and not the 9.5 fanboys are hoping for, but it's still gonna be the best shooter out there for the time frame. Then Sony will move it's price to 299$ mid 2k9, surely with God of War 3 or FF13, hard to say. I don't think they will pop a 199$ price drop before 2 more years though. BUT they COULD, in 2k9, with the price reduction, pop a new slim model to boost sales. At least that's what I'd do, even if it's not the FINALslim. And since sony said they were now at 45mn chips, it would fit. And since Japs LOVE slim versions, a part of ps3 owners might even buy another just to have the slim one... Then Sony would win the year by a good margin (not large because of the price of the x360, and M$ will surely do tons of ads to conter sony, while sony won't do much ads I'd say (they biggest problem is their ads for sony). Anyway, my gess.

Never thought I'd see a day. It barely feels like this gen has gotten started, so hell no to the 4-5 year span. BTW most are 6 or so, not 4-5 and in Sony's eyes 10,



I feel that such leaps and bounds in innovation - in terms of the kinds of things we're doing in games, the varied types and the over all freshness of just about every genre leads to much more that can be done to improve play. That's not even touching on the hardware side of things where developers are now just learning how to pump out better and better looking, performing & sounding games. Take the Uncharted series for example - the first looked great, but it's sequel looks to whoop it's a$s in that department - and it's not 2 years since we got the first.



It's like developers are just scratching the surface of this generation of gaming and it has a long ways to go.

since those consoles are much harder to hack - they'll be a good source for income for a while, since there is almost no pressure from "backup" playing public, and sony/ms can milk as much cash as they want from fans.



when consoles get hacked, games usually start to appear with more competitive prices. and that's usually when hardware developers start thinking of bringing another generation to the market - to protect their profits (for a while).

NES was around for something like ten years. SNES and Genesis were something like eight or nine. Playstation 1 was around for eleven years, according to Wikipedia. So...four to five years?? Seems to me we're barely cresting the midpoint.