@GunBladeHero True, times change, but one thing that hasn't is allowing your competition more than 1 year to entice potential buyers of your system to buy theirs instead. It would just be a bad business decision for Sony & M$ to wait longer than a year.
@GunBladeHero Check your history. The last time a company allowed their competition have more than a 1 year head start was Nintendo with the SNES. They allowed Sega a 3 year head start with the Genesis and it nearly ended up costing Nintendo in the end. Won't happen this time. The Xbox 360 will be 7 years old this Fall. That's ancient in terms of the home console industry's usual 4 to 5 year max (before a successor system is released) system life cycle. PS3 & Wii will be 6 years old this Fall. It's MORE than time for the next gen.
Of course the PS4 and Xbox 720 are going to be released in the Fall of 2013! It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that Sony and M$ aren't going to let Nintendo have a 2-year head start on the next gen.
What the hell would be so wrong or bad about just going back to the ORIGINAL source material and make a game (or games) based on the original trilogy with the characters that everyone actually cared about and liked and that made Star Wars global juggernaut in the first place?!?
I somewhat agree with him on this. When I look at the graphics of The Last of Us compared to the recently unveiled Unreal Engine 4 demo reel, I wasn't blown away by the UE4 at all. In fact I think some of the stuff Naughty Dog has done with UC3 and TLoU look better than UE4.
And I agree, it's sad when you look at the top of the sales charts and nearly all of the top selling games are war games. Black Ops, MW3, BF3, Ghost Recon, MoH, etc, etc. A new CoD game comes out EVERY year. It's like Madden now. For me anyway, there are FAR too many military-based shooters and even 3rd person shooters for that matter. There truly aren't enough games like Heavy Rain out there because most developers simply don't want to risk creating something more obscure or unique in fear that their game will fail.
However, new hardware stimulates and refreshes the marketplace. It's inevitable. Really if you look at it, this generation has lasted the longest of any previous console hardware cycle. The Xbox 360 actually launched in the fall of 2005! Yes it was nearly 7 years ago! The PS3 & Wii launched nearly 6 years ago. In contrast, the Xbox and GameCube launched in 2001 and were succeeded in 2005 & 2006 respectively. That's only a 4 year cycle for the first Xbox and a 5 year cycle for the GameCube. The SNES launched in 1991, followed by the N64 in 1996 - again only a 5 year cycle.
It's more than time for the next generation people.
Nintendo doesn't have to "take back" anything, they already have. The Wii has sold 30 million more units worldwide than the PS3 and 360.
With the Wii U launching this coming fall, everyone knows the new Xbox & PS4 will release in the fall of 2013. There's no way in hell M$ and Sony will let Nintendo have a 2 year head start in the next generation.
The last time a hardware manufacturer let their competition have more than a 1 year head start was Nintendo with the SNES. Sega released the Genesis in 1989 - a full 3 years prior to Nintendo bringing out the SNES in 1991 as the NES was still so dominant and considering SMB 3 came out in '89 they weren't too worried.
It almost cost them though because Sega was able to build up a decent installed base and then Sonic 1 came out and BOOM they were off to the races. It took till 1994 and the release of Donkey Kong Country for the SNES to overtake the Genesis in worldwide sales.
Since then, no other console of it's generation has had more than a 1 year head start. And YES I'm counting the Dreamcast, which was a "tweener" system and NOT actually part of the PS2/GameCube/Xbox generation.
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