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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vigilance" data-source="post: 3613844" data-attributes="member: 4275">But when you say games, what you really mean is exclusive games. A console has to justify its purchase through games you cant get anywhere else, a game experience you cant get anywhere else, or else the games have to look better than they do everywhere else. If you aren't dealing with exclusive games, which PS3 doesn't really have in abundance, then they have to look better. Which won't happen on 3rd party games until PS3 becomes the market leader. In the PS2-X-Box-Gamecube era, 3rd party games were developed for the PS2 first, and frequently didn't look any better (or looked worse) on the X-Box. If you look at games that were developed for the X-Box (say Halo), it showed that games *could* look much better on the X-box. But we never saw that in terms of 3rd party games.This time around, the situation is reversed. So Sony needs to do something, either through 1st party games or just paying to be the lead platform (which is how they held onto GTA in the PS2 era). Or a steep price cut.Sony is selling fewer units than the 360, but since the 360 basically had a year of lead time, they need to sell MORE if they ever want to be the market leader again. You can say it isn't the price, and I might even buy that, but they need something on their side. And where are these games going to come from? They need games other consoles don't have, and I don't see it on the horizon for them.I'll even relent a little on the price and say I don't think it was the biggest mistake Sony made with the PS3. The worst mistake Sony made was not dropping a pallet of money on Rockstar to keep GTA coming out first on their system. But in the absence of a lot of exclusive games (especially the biggest games), then price competition comes into play.</blockquote>

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